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1 day ago · Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (July 24, 1991 – May 23, 2014) was an English-American former college student and the sole perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings.On May 23, 2014, Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others by using knives, semi-automatic pistols and his car in Isla Vista, California, near the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
6 hours ago · The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentiethcentury operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners.
1 day ago · Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English television presenter, journalist, and writer who specialises in motoring.He is best known for the motoring programmes Top Gear and The Grand Tour alongside Richard Hammond and James May.
1 day ago · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
6 hours ago · I will not analyze all the fictional readers in detail, Footnote 37 but focus on the most important ones: the diegetic reader himself; Ludmilla, the female reader from the bookstore and the protagonist’s subsequent love interest; her sister Lotaria; the publisher Dr. Cavedagna; the author Silas Flannery; and the artist Irnerio. Each of them is a character in Calvino’s novel; at the same time, each of them presents a methodologically different form of reading—thus presenting reader ...
