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A debut novel-in stories, Eloghosa Osunde's 'Vagabonds!' employs trickster spirits to tell bloody tales of Lagos, Nigeria's outcasts and dreamers.
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work . [1] It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performance, and provide credibility.
Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-disciplinary fields, may be difficult to accomplish, and the significance (good or bad) of an idea may never be widely appreciated among its contemporaries. Peer review is generally considered necessary to academic quality and is used in most major scholarly journals.
Jack Shaftoe (also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L'Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2,686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle. [1] [2] [3]
The band started in 1984 as a loose collective of around eight members called the Brotherhood VIP. VIP stood for "Vagabonds in Power", taken from a Fela Kuti record of the same name. They were a collective of rappers, dancers, graffiti artists, and DJ's who were black, white, Muslim and Jewish.
Accattone ([akkatˈto:ne], lit. "vagabond", "scrounger" [1] [2]) is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.It was Pasolini's first film as a director and premiered at the Venice Film Festival. [3]
Zero Punctuation is a video-review series Croshaw released every Wednesday on The Escapist [1] between 2007 and 2023. [2] [3] [4] The series began with his review of the demo of The Darkness, which quickly grew in popularity. [5] [6] After one more review covering Fable: The Lost Chapters, Croshaw was hired to continue the series on The Escapist.
A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds (shortened as Caveat) was first published in 1566 by Thomas Harman, and although no copies of that edition survive, it must have been popular, because two printers were punished by the Stationers' Company in 1567 for pirated editions. Two editions were published in 1568, and a ...