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  Eugene Marais
Eugene Marais - Nuwe Feite en Nuwe Insigte
En die waarheid is dat Eugène Marais se bevindinge nog nie bevraagteken of verkeerd bewys is nie; trouens, wetenskappe is daarop gebou, en daar is in vreemde tale wetenskaplike plagiaat daarmee gepleeg.
Dat Eugène Marais op verskillende terreine ’n genie van wêreldformaat was, en steeds deur sy werke is, is nie te betwyfel nie.
www.ontowebmedia.com /za/EugeneMarais.html   (397 words)

  
 Eugene Marais - Writer and Scientist
In the summer of 1936, Eugene Marais put the barrel of a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
Although Eugene Marais is remembered by South Africans more for his contribution to Afrikaans literature than for science, he has been described as being a scientist far ahead of his time.
When Marais was a baby, no well-equipped household was without an opium-based anodyne for pain and he was probably lulled with these concoctions from an early age.
www.encounter.co.za /article/140.html   (695 words)

  
 Eugene Marais
Marais was born in November 1959 in Durban, a notorious surfing hangout on the east coast of South Africa.
Marais fished, turned over rocks, developed a gourmet bent for insect cullinary delights, and promptly became a social misfit.
MARAIS, E. and HOLM, E. Type Catalogue and Bibliography of the Cetoniinae of Sub- Saharan Africa (excluding Trichiini and Valgini) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae).
www-museum.unl.edu /research/entomology/workers/EMarais.htm   (348 words)

  
 Homage to Eugene Marais - the soul of the ant
Marais was well aware that this creature owed a great deal to coordination provided by the queen.
Marais described one termite queen, 2400 times the size of her workers, who vanished from her rock-hard cell to reappear in another part of the palace, beyond doorways and tunnels far too small for her to squeeze through.
But even this strange incident becomes less obviously mysterious if you think of her in the same terms as a group of cells, a sort of benign neoplasm perhaps, which is capable of breaking down and reforming in another part of the body.
wise.rabbit.impossible.za.net /eugene_marais.htm   (1407 words)

  
 Eugene Marais   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eugene Marais qualified in dentistry at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 1988.
Eugene Marais enjoys implant dentistry and is eager to help dentists start up with implants and to educate the public about the need for implant dentistry to improve the quality of life.
She joined Eugene Marais in Essex in February 1999 and moved to Milton Regis in May 2000.
www.locallifedesign.co.uk /clients/eugenemarais/index.asp?page=cvs   (1094 words)

  
 Life Healthcare - Eugene Marais Hospital
Eugene Marais Hospital is a member of Life Healthcare, one of the largest private hospital groups in South Africa, operating 62 acute care facilities across the country.
At Eugene Marais Hospital we understand that we have a responsibility to meet the expectations of those who are entrusted to our care as well as the expectations of their loved ones.
Eugene Marais Hospital's maternity team is dedicated to the well being, health and comfort of both mother and child, before, during and after birth.
www.lifehealthcare.co.za /hospitals/DisplayHospital.asp?nHospitalId=19   (3152 words)

  
 Eugene Marais at AllExperts
Marais had by now for some time been an opium addict and suffered from melancholy, insomnia, depression and feelings of isolation.
Marais' work as a naturalist, although by no means trivial, is held to be of less importance than his contributions as an artist.
Although an Afrikaner patriot, Marais was sympathetic to the cultural values of the fl tribal peoples of the Transvaal; this is seen in poems such as "Die dans van die reën" (The dance of the rain).
en.allexperts.com /e/e/eu/eugene_marais.htm   (974 words)

  
 Eugene Marais
Marais was born in November 1959 in Durban, a notorious surfing hangout on the east coast of South Africa.
Marais fished, turned over rocks, developed a gourmet bent for insect cullinary delights, and promptly became a social misfit.
MARAIS, E. and HOLM, E. Type Catalogue and Bibliography of the Cetoniinae of Sub- Saharan Africa (excluding Trichiini and Valgini) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae).
www.unl.edu /museum/research/entomology/workers/EMarais.htm   (348 words)

  
 Encephalartos eugene-maraisii
This cycad was discovered by the writer and naturalist, Eugene Marais, who sent a specimen to the botanist, Dr Rudolf Marloth, in Cape Town, recording that the kernels had poisoned several children.
Eugene Marais died and with him the details of his cycad.
It was a moment of great triumph, human and botanical, when through her efforts the cycads were at last found and Eugene Marais was proved right.
www.wild-about-you.com /CycadEugene-maraisii.htm   (303 words)

  
 The Soul of the White Ant - Marais - ToC
As a scientist it was the mind of man, the human psyche, that preoccupied Marais, and to find the key to its nature it was to nature that he turned, rather than to humans.
Marais was born to a traditional Afrikaner family in the Boer Republic of the Transvaal in 1872.
The Marais of The Soul of the White Ant is a charming and engaging fellow, a thoroughly good companion, but in The Soul of the Ape another Marais seems occasionally to intrude, perhaps the "sombre side" his friends sometimes alluded to, the "hidden darkness" his children friends never saw in their Pied Piper.
journeytoforever.org /farm_library/Marais1/whiteantToC.html   (3530 words)

  
 Directions to Soap Crafters
The first street on your right is Van den Heever Road turn right.
At the T-junction, turn left into Eugene Marais.
The third street on your right is Eugene Marais Drive turn right.
www.soapcrafters.co.za /directions.htm   (281 words)

  
 Anthony Marais (author) on AuthorsDen
ANTHONY MARAIS was born in Hollywood and grew up in and around Los Angeles.
Home to the Xenophobe's Guide series, Bluffer's Guide, and Xenophobe's Language Guides.
Anthony Marais is currently collaborating with Polish film director Jarek Marszewski.
www.authorsden.com /anthonymarais   (227 words)

  
 potatomato.blog
This Creperie seems like an obvious choice when you almost collapsed from thirst and painful feet when hanging out in the beautiful Marais neighborhood.
When we had the savory crepe, we were sandwiched between two smokers...^^;; Thankfully later another tourist couple sat next to us and blocked the smoke.
Another very good boulangerie we found in Marais, Au Levain du Marais.
www.potatomato.com /mt   (1901 words)

  
 Encephalartos eugene-maraisii description   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"This cycad was discovered by the writer and naturalist, Eugene Marais, who sent a specimen to the botanist, Dr Rudolf Marloth, in Cape Town, recording that the kernels had poisoned several children.
Eugene Marais died and with him the details of his cycad.
It was a moment of great triumph, human and botanical, when through her efforts the cycads were at last found and Eugene Marais was proved right.
www.conifers.org /za/en/eugene_maraisii.htm   (302 words)

  
 SCREEN:'THE GUEST,' LIFE OF MARAIS - New York Times
Fugard himself as Marais, is set in 1926, when Marais, in one of his periodic attempts to overcome his habit, is persuaded by a doctor-friend to go into comparative isolation on an Afrikaner farm.
Marais, whose seminal but still controversial studies, ''The Soul of the Ape'' and ''The Soul of the White Ant,'' were hailed by Robert Ardrey in his ''African Genesis,'' is a bristly, brilliant, doomed character in Mr.
Marais is obsessed by pain, which becomes, for him, ''the principal condition of all existence.'' ''Escape from pain,'' he says, ''is the purpose of all striving.'' He goes on to equate knowledge with grief - ''the man who increases knowledge increases sorrow.''
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E4DD123BF935A35755C0A962948260   (486 words)

  
 Tonight - Searching for the soul of Eugene Marais
Rebelo battled to find his way into the story but this was given to him when his young daughter was in hospital and he started telling her about Eugene Marais to divert her attention.
Talking about Marais, he feels strongly that he was someone with huge potential, almost a kind of shaman (prophet) who had a calling from an early age.
Eugene Marais was a complex man. From an early age he became addicted to opium, something, which was very difficult to find at the time and he had to go into the townships to score.
www.tonight.co.za /?fArticleId=3236608&fSectionId=443&fSetId=218   (1000 words)

  
 Eugene Marais   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans.
He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en Volk and became controversial in Transvaal politics.
It was also around this time that he published The Soul of the White Ant (1937) and then My Friends the Baboons (1939) which was posthumously published after he had taken his life.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/marais,e.htm   (89 words)

  
 Afrikaans.be » Blog Argief » Eugène Marais: The great longing
Marais and a friend stayed for some time in a shack in the kloof to be near the primates they were studying.
Marais went there to treat Oom Piet’s illness, and this is where he met the old man’s son, Hans Purekrans van Rooyen, who became his lifelong friend.
Marais arrived in the Waterberg in 1907, when he was 36.
afrikaans.be /2002/02/26/eugene-marais-the-great-longing   (3589 words)

  
 TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MR MARAIS: Although we shot with automatic assault rifles and because of the conflict of the past we were fully aware of the destructive abilities of such weapons.
MR MARAIS: Sir, at that stage I was under the command of Mr Botha, and I knew that the decision on our actions was going to be taken, and that he was going to give us orders, and I knew I was going to do it.
MR MARAIS: Sir, at one stage I considered that I actually thought that it was under the auspices or the clearance of the AWB.
www.doj.gov.za /trc/amntrans/durban/marais.htm   (6759 words)

  
 :: PROPHET OF THE WATERBERG REVIEW ::   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was in the Waterberg in 1906 that Marais studied the behaviour of baboons and the fascinating life of termite colonies, leading to his famous books The Soul of the White Ant and Soul of the Ape.
The youngest of 13 children, Marais was born in Pretoria in 1871 and at the age of 19 became the editor of the newspaper Land en Volk.
The sudden arrival of the charismatic Marais in a faded 1930s suit gives Le Roux an opportunity to test some of his theories about the character and life of Eugene Marais and the reason why he never actually finished his brilliant work Soul of the Ape.
www.joburg.org.za /2006/may/may12_prophet.stm   (809 words)

  
 All in the Family -- TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner best remembered by his countrymen as one of their early poets, but he was also a journalist, self-taught naturalist and morphine addict.
Marais had studied baboons in the Transvaal for three years just after the Boer War, when the absence of farmers with guns made the beasts approachable.
Marais was a self-educated naturalist who had read Darwin but came to grief over the noninheritance of acquired characteristics—a turn-of-the-century incomprehension he shared with Bernard Shaw.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,844959-1,00.html   (668 words)

  
 NHBS - The Soul of the White Ant - Eugene Marais
NHBS - The Soul of the White Ant - Eugene Marais
In his fascinating investigations into the psyche of the ants, their strangely rich inherited memory of instinct, Marais makes challenging assertions about the group soul of the termite colony - the cause and result of the termites' ceaseless, automatic activity for their community.
His extraordinary theory is that the termite colony is, in fact, a separate composite animal at a certain stage of its development.
www.nhbs.com /title.php?tefno=132652   (196 words)

  
 Cape Argus: Another look at Eugene Marais
Legendary poet, journalist, lawyer and scientist Eugene N Marais contributed much to the world before he took his own life 70 years ago, at the age of 54.
Marais was an opium addict, and was said never to have recovered from his wife's premature death.
Marais took legal action but gained little satisfaction.
www.capeargus.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=342&fArticleId=3277886   (354 words)

  
 ZA@Play - Books: Afrikaner icon's darkest secrets 29/06/99   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The owner of this grisly exhibit was the real Eugène N Marais, the English-speaker who blessed the Afrikaans language renewal of the 1920s with a handful of decadent ditties, acquired in London in the 1890s.
Clearly, like JG Strijdom, as a lady-killer Marais relied on his blue eyes, was magnetic to the women he seduced and abandoned.
And then Lord Solly Zuckerman made his devastating riposte, denouncing Marais as a paranoid charlatan who fancied the greats of European science had filched his African discoveries (“the fact that no biologist ever bothered to steal them is because nothing Marais ever said about scientific matters was worth stealing”).
www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/9906/990629-marais.html   (869 words)

  
 Afrikaans.be: februari 2002 Archives
It was as if everyone had been struck dumb by the shock of war, until Eugene Marais and Jan Celliers appeared on the scene.
Following Marais were the triumvirate of Celliers, Totius, and Leipoldt, bringing with them an unexpected blossoming of Afrikaans poetry.
The pain of war is in all the early works of these poets, for it pervaded all the post-war poetry like a sombre leitmotiv; each felt the pain differently and interpreted it in his own way.
raath.org /afrikaansmt/argief/2002/02   (10940 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Guest
South African playwright Athol Fugard gives a powerful lead performance in this drama based on the life of naturalist Eugene Marais, who was a morphine addict for 45 years until his suicide at age 67.
The action is set on an isolated farm in the Transvaal, circa 1926, as Marais grapples with his addiction and rails against the well-meaning ministrations of his attentive doctor (Marius Weyers) and a pious Boer couple.
Fugard wrote the original screenplay for the film, which was released in South Africa as The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugene Marais (1977).
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=59785-1-GMT   (105 words)

  
 Amazon.com: marais: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai The...
He decided he didn't give a good damn if Marais and Hardy, who further down the bar were listening and...
The monarchs move to the Marais and the Louvre.
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=marais&tag=540-20&index=books&pg=30&link_code=qs&page=1   (1151 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: marais: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Die Stem Van Die Storieverteller - Verhale Van Eugene Marais by H. du Randt (Unknown Binding)
Die Swart Verraad by Eugene Marais (Unknown Binding)
Eugene Marais Versamelde Werke I/II by L. Rousseau (Paperback)
www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=marais&tag=54003-20&index=books&pg=19&linkCode=ur2&page=1   (171 words)

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