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Há 12 horas · Early life Pynchon, age 16, in his high school senior portrait Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse. During his childhood, Pynchon alternately attended Episcopal services with his father and Roman Catholic ...
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- Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr., May 8, 1937 (age 86), Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
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Há 12 horas · Early years Background Ruhollah Khomeini's birthplace at Khomeyn. Ruhollah Khomeini came from a lineage of small land owners, clerics, and merchants. His ancestors migrated towards the end of the 18th century from their original home in Nishapur, Khorasan province in northeastern Iran for a short stay to the Kingdom of Awadh, a region in the modern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, whose rulers ...
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Há 12 horas · Clarence Thomas Official portrait, 2007 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Incumbent Assumed office October 23, 1991 Appointed by George H. W. Bush Preceded by Thurgood Marshall Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit In office March 12, 1990 – October 23, 1991 Appointed by George H. W. Bush Preceded by Robert Bork Succeeded ...
Há 12 horas · While the heroes of old — Macauley’s “brave Horatius, / the Captain of the gate”; Beowulf, slayer of Grendel, a monster of “Cain’s clan” — defended civilisation, Marx cemented in the popular consciousness the romantic idea of the anti-hero, who tears it down. The seeds of radical chic, epitomised in Che Guevara T-shirts, were ...
Há 12 horas · From The Invisible Man to The Witches, these are the best movies airing this weekend in the UK on freeview channels like BBC, Channel 4, ITV and more.
Há 12 horas · Sequel to Nayak, which saw Anil’s character being CM for a day, in the works; maker says it will begin where political film ended, with leads expected to repris
Há 12 horas · Economics. The tragedy of the commons is a metaphoric label for a concept that is widely discussed, and criticised, in economics, ecology and other sciences. According to the concept, should a number of people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource such as a pasture, they will tend to over-use it, and may end up destroying its ...
