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  Encyclopedia: 1684
Matthias Bernard Braun (Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun, 24 February 1684 in Sautens near Innsbruck - 15 February 1738 in Prague) was a sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands, one of the most prominent late baroque style sculptors in the area.
Categories: 1684 April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining.
Roger Williams (December 21, 1603 – April 1, 1684) was an Anglo-American theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the City of Providence, Rhode Island and a co-founder of Rhode Island.
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 Cultural City Bergen 2000, Bergen Public Library - Bergen in Literature
The city of Bergen, founded in 1070, was first and foremost a transit harbour, with facilities for storage and export of dried fish, and for import of goods from the Continent and the British Isles.
She became so popular that in 1684 the King of Denmark and Norway awarded her exemption from taxation — the first modern "poet’s pension" in Norwegian literary history.
He is often referred to as "the father of Danish literature" and his comedies, strongly influenced by Molière, take place in a Danish setting; but some of the central characters in these plays are clearly marked by Holberg’s memories of daily life in the town where he was born.
www.literature2000.org /bergen/eng/berglit   (1364 words)

  
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METHODOLOGY: The American literature was examined to differentiate these three constructs, first on such dimensions as severity, intention, and child effects; and second on key contextual or environmental factors empirically associated with higher rates of violent behavior in families.
The literature on the treatment outcomes of hypnotherapy and psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatment is reviewed, using a model of an ideal treatment outcome study for PTSD.
The various problems and symptoms described in the literature on child sexual abuse are reviewed in a series of broad categories including posttraumatic stress, cognitive distortions, emotional pain, avoidance, an impaired sense of self, and interpersonal difficulties.
www.ctfphc.org /Lit_Searches/Child_Maltreatment.htm   (14461 words)

  
 Culture: Literature
George Kalosgouros, a friend of Polylas, is known mainly for his works of literary criticism and his translations.
Lorentzos Mavilis, another poet, studied literature in Germany.
His main poetic work consists of fifty sonnets which are considered to be among the finest poetical works in Modern Greece.
www.corfuxenos.gr /History/literature.htm   (618 words)

  
 Dutch Literature
utch literature including Flemish, begins with the rise of the Low Frankish dialect, or Nieder deutsch, about the middle of the 13th.
The first writing of literary rank is said to be a version of the French romance of Floris and Blanchefleur.
After he resplendency of Bilderdijk, a new period of Dutch literature begins with the 19th.
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 SLOVAK LITERATURE
In literature Štúr stressed native originality, influenced by Herder, and believing that the Slavs were destined to give great poetry to human civilisation.
It remains an unfairly neglected literature in terms of published English translations.
This sketchy account of recent decades ought to be extended, at least to incorporate later developments, perhaps including a mention of the fiction of Peter Pišťanek (b.
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 French Literature
A good way to understand the French is to read their literature - or to know a few of the things that all French children learn in school from kindergarten (the fables of La Fontaine and the tales of Charles Perrault) to high school (Balzac, Zola, Molière) :
It is taught in school that the first piece of French literature (i.e.
There is a long tradition of Rabelaisian authors in French literature.
www.understandfrance.org /France/FrenchLiterature.html   (1218 words)

  
 Children's Literature - Island 1
The instructional focus of children's books is also seen in this twice-monthly magazine, founded by Samuel Griswold Goodrich in 1833, which emphasized geography, travel, natural history, and simple technology, along with Bible stories.
These two works, in the very small format favored for children's books in the earlier nineteenth century, illustrate the overlap between children's literature and the religious tract.
The Baptist tinker John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (first published in 1678), and its second part about the pilgrim's wife Christiana (1684, shown here in a Philadelphia reprint of 1857), were not originally for children, but appealed because of their fairy-tale like allegory of giants and bravery.
www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/kidlit/kidlit/kidlit1.html   (836 words)

  
 1684   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MAGAZINES Southwest Journal of Linguistics 6/1/2004 Riley, Carroll L. diary of Juan Dominguez de Mendoza's expedition into Texas (1683- 1684): A critical edition of the Spanish text with facsimile reproductions...
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita was born about 1684 into a noble family and, like the vast majority of Kongolese...
His work is an attempt to grasp a point of encounter between...
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 Literature & Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Practice of Diaspora : Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions and Poetry
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)
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 1684   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
AP Online 06-28-1999 Shipwreck From 1684 May Be Found LONDON (AP) -- More than 300 years ago, an East...
welcome addition to the literature on the La Salle expedition of 1684-1687.
The expedition, though it did not particularly advance Spanish...
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 Sidney-Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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