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Famed for -- and ultimately defined by -- his perennial \"American Pie,\" singer/songwriter Don McLean was born October 2, 1945, in New Rochelle, NY. After getting his start in the folk clubs of New York City during the mid-\'60s, McLean struggled for a number of years, building a small following through his work with Pete Seeger on the Clearwater, a sloop that sailed up and down the eastern seaboard to promote environmental causes. Still, McLean was primarily singing in elementary schools and the like when in 1970 he wrote a musical tribute to painter Vincent Van Gogh; the project was roundly rejected by a number of labels, although MediaArts did offer him a contract to record a number of his other songs under the title Tapestry. The album fared poorly, but Perry Como earned a hit with a cover of the track \"And I Love Her So,\" prompting United Artists to pick up McLean\'s contract. He returned in 1971 with American Pie; the title track, an elegiac eight-and-a-half-minute folk-pop...

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Hancu George

Inspiration Inspiration Sit down she said, pen me a few lines, tell me of life, love, hopes and dreams. write to me of much happier times When love ruled your heart, and life it seemed Was full of possibilities, plans and endless schemes. I took up the challenge, and began to write, Of life, of love and hopes and dreams, Words flowed like rivers, as I wrote them down, Thinking all the while of the lady I'd found To inspire my thoughts, and urge me on, To make something beautiful, maybe a song. Into the small hours, I toiled away, writing down lines, throwing them away. 'Twas then that I realised, that the happier times That she spoke of and wanted, were not of that time. For the happier times were not from long ago, But were here with me now, and now I know, That 'twas the love for this lady, that made my words flow, And to write something beautiful, for her, her alone. I wrote of life, and my living with her, Of love, her in my arms forever more, Of hopes, a future for us so bright,...

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Aldous Leonard Huxley

[[en]] Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and the real-life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.Brave New World book cover Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. Gerald Heard, a longtime friend, said that Huxley's ancestry "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations." Throughout Brave New World you can see evidence of an ambivalent attitude toward such authority assumed by a ruling class. Like the England of his day, Huxley's Utopia...

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Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer\'s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. \"Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to writeâ€”something I hadn\'t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.\" Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer\'s House and eventually made its way to the publishing...

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Carmen Fenesan

"Well. I'll tell you somethin' about your famous future. Every day I wake up, it's still the present. The same grimy, boring present. I don't think this future thing exists." (Titan AE)

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Ian Robertson

Professor Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, posts he took up in 1999 after 8 years in Cambridge, England as a Fellow of Hughes Hall and a Senior Scientist at the internationally-renowned MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. He has a worldwide reputation in neuropsychology and is at the forefront in the development of training methods for improving brain function, publishing over a hundred and fifty scientific articles in leading journals such as Nature, Psychological Bulletin, Current Biology and many others. He is also author and editor of 10 scientific books and is a regular keynote speaker at conferences on brain function throughout the world. He is one of the world’s leading researchers in brain rehabilitation and his most recent research has demonstrated how it is possible to improve mental function in ordinary people who don\'t have illness or brain disorders. A former writer for the...

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Ursula K LeGuin

Ursula Kroeber was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, where she grew up. Her parents were the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. She went to Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married Charles A. Le Guin, a historian, in Paris in 1953; they have lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1958, and have three children and three grandchildren. Ursula K. Le Guin writes both poetry and prose, and in various modes including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children\'s books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts for performance or recording. She has published six books of poetry, twenty novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eleven volumes), four collections of essays, eleven books for children, and four volumes of translation. Few American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms. Several of Le Guin’s major titles have...

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stefania alexandra

Ce pot sa spun despre mine?Sunt eleva intr-un liceu si care spera ca se va schimba ceva in aceasta Romanie in care traim,unde numai cei bogati au castiguri,iar cei mai saraci...

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Maria-Magdalena Jindiceanu

Books: -'Caught Up Universe'-'Univers inclus'(poems),from high school and not only, 2003 -'Dark Chocolate'-'Ciocolata amaruie'(theatre,3 plays) 2005 Anthologies: -'Regina noptii' (poems) 2005 -'Noaptea' (prose)2005 -'Exotice'(prose)2006 -'Ipostaze ale fantasticului contemporan'(prose)2006 –'Armonii baroc'(poety) 2007 -'Inger si demon' (poezie feminina) 2008 - Antologie (proza contemporana feminina) 2009 Plays: “Ciocolata amaruie” (2003) “www.necazurindragoste.ro” (2003) “In tunel” (2001) “Panaghia” (2000) “Hotsie-Totsie” (2001) “Menuet” (2005) “Realitatea ei”(2005) “Fericitul” (2005, 2007) “Optiune” “Interviul” (2006) “Contact” (2006) “Noaptea in care ne-am logodit cu Teddy”(2007) “Implacabil” (2007) “La actualidad del tatuaje” (2008) “Cyber love” (2008) Colaborari: - Revista literara „Noaptea”, coordonator Mihail Gramescu (apare si pe Internet) - Revista culturala „Conexiuni” (New York) - 'Literatorul' - 'Convorbiri literare' - Cenaclul Literar „Armonii baroc” coordonator Mihail...

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up down

de Valeriu D.G. Barbu

se așterne somnul știindu-te alături și visez cum visezi mă trezesc, te simt aproape și un soi de neînțeleasă bucurie și siguranță mă proclamă omul tău deși mă simt mult mai mult poate un astronaut,...

Pretending

de Hal Sirowitz

We went to Dan Lynch\'s, & listened To White musicians pretending that they were Black. And the people next to us jumped up & down, pretending that they were rock stars. And I put my hand on your...

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Progres lansare versiune nouă

de Radu Herinean

În ultima săptămână a existat, după multe vreme, un progres semnificativ cu dezvoltările necesare pentru lansarea versiunii noi a site-ului. Înainte de asta, am să încerc să fac o mică listă cu...

Atelier

Up and down in the dark

de Sholly

Conceived Of straw and trimmings Rags and cloth, Lace and stiches, Wasn\'t supposed To have a soul - Marionette. Her once bright colours Withered shades, Fervent expressions Fade away. The thigh is...

Up-side down town

de Drăgan Sebastian

Acolo, în geana orașului viermuind m-am născut, acolo unde plouă întotdeauna invers, din asfaltul noros înspre cerul sticlos unde fulgerele brăzdează smoala și tunetele răzbat din crăpăturile străzii...

up-and-down, scarface

de Ela Victoria Luca

nu așa, nu fețele nu se fabrică din cârpe oricât am vrea să fim respectabili de la mijloc în sus facem salturi prin vertebre le marcăm - puncție necesară pentru ultima zi atunci nu mai poți trage...

Shut up and down.

de Daniel Ciolea

Epigramele-s pe site la modă, Mii și mii de oameni le citesc! Drept urmare-azi noapte Vodă La poartă a scris: \"ÎNCHIS - REVIZUIESC\". :)

close-up & close-down

de diana dumitraciuc

Sătul ca toate să intre buzna în el, să lase în urmă doar umbre zvâcnind, omul nostru și-a dat moartea pe un aparat foto. Cu ochii strâns închiși, bătea neobosit străzile, în timp ce obiectivul...