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  2. Crescograph - Wikipedia

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    Crescograph, Bose Institute, Kolkata. A crescograph is a device for measuring growth in plants. It was invented in the early 20th century by Jagadish Chandra Bose. The Bose crescograph uses a series of clockwork gears and a smoked glass plate to record the movement of the tip of a plant (or its roots). It was able to record at magnifications of ...

  3. Orville Ward Owen - Wikipedia

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    Orville Ward Owen. Dr. Orville Ward Owen (January 1, 1854 – March 31, 1924) was an American physician, and exponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship. Owen claimed to have discovered hidden messages contained in the works of Shakespeare/Bacon.

  4. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Nonsense existed in Shakespeare's work and was well-known in the Brothers Grimm's fairytales, some of which are called lying tales or lügenmärchen. [9] Biographer Roger Lancelyn Green suggested that "Jabberwocky" was a parody of the German ballad " The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains ", [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] which had been translated into ...

  5. Jagadish Chandra Bose - Wikipedia

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    The same year Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose, a documentary film directed by Pijush Bose, was released. It was produced by the Government of India's Films Division. [51] [52] Films Division also produced another documentary film, again titled Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose, this time directed by the prominent Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha. [53]

  6. Influence of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    When William Shakespeare began writing his plays, the English language was rapidly absorbing words from other languages due to wars, exploration, diplomacy and colonization. By the age of Elizabeth, English had become widely used with the expansion of philosophy, theology and physical sciences, but many writers lacked the vocabulary to express ...

  7. E. Nesbit - Wikipedia

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    The Railway Children is also popularised by a 1970 film version. Gore Vidal called the time-travel book, The Story of the Amulet, one where "Nesbit's powers of invention are at their best." [30] Her children's writing also included plays and collections of verse. Nesbit has been cited as the creator of modern children's fantasy. [31]

  8. Thespis - Wikipedia

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    He is often called the "Inventor of Tragedy". [4] [5] Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs (songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains). He is credited with introducing a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different ...

  9. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...