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Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, was a New York Times best seller in April 2009. [1] [failed verification] Each of the five books in his Lightbringer series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010.
The White House ruins after the fire of August 24, 1814, depicted in a watercolor painting by George Munger, is now on display at the White House Major General Robert Ross, the British commander who led the burning of Washington. After burning the Capitol, the British turned northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
Wilmington author Philip Gerard wrote a novel, Cape Fear Rising (1994), that recounts the 1898 campaign and events leading to the burning of the Daily Record. [179] John Sayles portrayed the Wilmington Insurrection in Book Two of his novel, A Moment in the Sun (2011), based on contemporary primary sources. Sayles combines fictional characters ...
The Black Prism is a fantasy novel by American author Brent Weeks.It is the first book in the five-volume [1] Lightbringer Series and follows Gavin Guile, known as the 'Prism' and the most powerful person in the world, [2] as he combats an uprising led by a self-proclaimed king.
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in women's sports, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, on Feb. 5, 2025.
A new study suggests that diets high in fast food, processed red meat, and soda but low in fruits and vegetables may be linked to faster biological aging.
Swedish police found several rifles in the adult education centre in Orebro where a gunman killed 11 people and wounded several others this week in the country's deadliest mass shooting, a ...