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  Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India.
Rudyard Kipling is buried in Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey where many literary people are buried or commemorated.
Many of Rudyard Kipling's older books have a swastika printed on their covers, which has led to many claiming that he is racist.
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 Rudyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudyard is a lakeside village in the county of Staffordshire, England, west of Leek, Staffordshire and on the shore of Rudyard Lake.
The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway operates steam trains along a one and a half mile track along the eastern side of the lake.
The parents of Rudyard Kipling met at Rudyard and named their son after the village.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) A Nation spoke to a Nation,A Queen sent word to a Throne:'Daughter am I in my mother's house,But mistress in my own.The gates are mine...
RUDYARD KIPLING, "The Ballad of the King's Jest," stanza...
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, in the same year as W. Yeats but at the opposite end of the British Empire.
Rudyard was to stay more than five years with the Holloways in what he later called “the House of Desolation”, meanwhile attending a small private school in Southsea.
For Rudyard the miseries of Southsea were relieved by occasional holidays with his aunt and uncle, Georgie and Edward Burne-Jones, in the still somewhat raffish and liberal artistic circles of the pre-Raphaelite survival, very much at odds with Kipling's later and more notorious views and associations: Tory, imperialist, and philistine.
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 Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
They are said to have met at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England, hence Kipling's name.
His mother's sister was married to the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and young Kipling and his sister spent much time with the Burne-Joneses in England from the ages of six to twelve, while his parents remained in India.
Rudyard and his new bride would live in the United States for the next four years.
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 Rudyard Area Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rudyard Area Schools in addition to an outstanding educational program offers various enhancement programs such as swimming, Native American cultural studies, advancement placement, interactive TV, chorus, choral, band, pep band, drama, athletics, vocational programming including business tech, art and a public library.
Rudyard Area Schools is leading the way in educational excellence and we encourage you to come and join us as we educate the youth of our community.
The mission of Rudyard Area Schools is to insure that each individual masters the basic skills in realizing his or her potential.
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 Chronology of Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1870 Rudyard andmadler search info his younger sister are taken to England by his parents and placed in Calvinistic foster home were he is nagged, bullied and beaten.
Rudyard is removed from the foster home and he is sent to a private school called the United Services College.
Rudyard marries Carolyn Balestier, the sister of Wolcott Balestier, who is an American.
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 Inventory of The Rudyard Kipling Collection:
There are some 36 Rudyard Kipling autograph pieces, all of which are letters excluding a few poems and miscellaneous items.
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865 to English parents.
Printed notice of ceremony at Westminster Abbey, "The Centenary of the Birth of Rudyard Kipling." December 30, 1965, with reference to the memorial wreath.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tamucush/00076/tamu-00076.html   (7516 words)

  
 RUDYARD KIPLING AND BATEMANS WATER MILL, GENERATING INDUSTRY BEGINNINGS CIRCA 1900, DIRECT CURRENT SUPPLY AND THE ...
Rudyard wrote for the Daily Mail in 1904 'Muse Among The Motors'.
Rudyard and Carrie had been married for ten years when they moved to Bateman's and he was by then the most famous writer in the English-speaking world.
Rudyard Kipling died in 1936 and Carrie continued to live at Bateman's until her death in 1939, when she bequeathed the estate to the National Trust as a memorial to her late husband.
www.solarnavigator.net /history/rudyard_kipling.htm   (2725 words)

  
 Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an artist and scholar who had considerable influence on his son's work, became curator of the Lahore museum, and is described presiding over this "wonder house" in the first chapter of Kim, Rudyard's most famous novel.
His mother was Alice Macdonald, two of whose sisters married the highly successful 19th-century painters Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Sir Edward Poynter, while a third married Alfred Baldwin and became the mother of Stanley Baldwin, later prime minister.
His parents, although not officially important, belonged to the highest Anglo-Indian society, and Rudyard thus had opportunities for exploring the whole range of that life.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/322_69.html   (1309 words)

  
 Kipling, Rudyard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
KIPLING, RUDYARD [Kipling, Rudyard] 1865-1936, English author, b.
Kipling's use of verse and prose in "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." (Rudyard Kipling)
Review - Books: Rudyard in the round As this lucid new Life shows, there was a lot more to Kipling than the Empire, says John Gross
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 BBC Staffordshire - Rudyard Lake
The name Rudyard apparently came from Ralph Rudyard who is alleged to have killed Richard III.
The lake gave its name to Rudyard Kipling whose parents first met by its shores and had a particular love for it such that they named their child after it.
I have a love affair with Rudyard Lake and have had since I first saw it in March 1997 when I came from Rudyard, MT. I like the gentleness and peaceful-ness that comes with being around the Lake.
www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/going_out/venues/n_s/rudyard_lake.shtml   (953 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: RudyardKipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kipling Rudyard at Amazon.com Find all 2 books and editions by Kipling Rudyard at Amazon.com.
Rudyard Kipling If If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men...
Rudyard Kipling Prints Browse our complete Rudyard Kipling collection at Globalgallery.com - fine art prints, canvas editions and frame mounts.
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 Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, the novelist, short-story writer and poet, known for his tales about British soldiers in India and Burma, and particularly The Jungle Book and Just So stories and fables.
In 1907 Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Biography of Rudyard Kipling, detailing how his son influenced his work.
www.ontalink.com /literature/rudyard_kipling   (276 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Just So Stories (Books of Wonder): Books: Rudyard Kipling,Barry Moser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic yet fanciful stories for children are presented by Shelly Frasier in this imaginative production.
Rudyard Kipling, referred to by one reviewer here as "not a very good writer" was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize (not the Pulitzer) for literature, in 1907.
He was staunchly pro-Empire in an era in which Great Britain not only ruled the waves, but a third of the globe -- the sun never set, it was said, on the British Empire, of which he sang in hundreds of poems and short stories and novels which also deserve reading today.
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 Rudyard Kipling
(3) Rudyard Kipling, The Fringes of the Fleet (1915)
Nor is it any lie that, had we used the Navy's bare fist instead of its gloved hand from the beginning, we would in all likelihood have shortened the war.
He led the platoon over a mile of open ground in the face of shell and machine-gun fire and was dropped at the further limit of the advance, after having emptied his pistol into a house full of German m.g.'s.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jkipling.htm   (914 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling
Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling retained a deep love for the colour and exotic richness of India throughout his life and this passion affected much of his writing.
Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship (1965) by Morton Norton Cohen
Rudyard Kipling and Sir Henry Rider Haggard on Screen, Stage, Radio and Television (1999) by Philip Leibfried
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /k/rudyard-kipling   (320 words)

  
 The White Man's Burden and Its Critics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The "white man's burden" concept was also revived in later discussions of U.S. interventions in the Americas and during World War I. Kipling's poem, two racial images interpreting its meaning in the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba, an example of its use in contemporary advertising, and more than fifty anti-imperialist responses are included here.
Rudyard Kipling and The White Man's Burden, a special forum for discussion of topics related to Rudyard Kipling and the debate about "The White Man's Burden."
The elevation of Rudyard Kipling's reputation in February 1899 while he was near death from pneumonia while "The White Man's Burden" was being debated, and the more thorough criticism of his writings, ethics and religious beliefs that followed.
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 Rudyard Kipling - Biography and Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist and poet, remembered for his celebration of British imperialism and heroism in India and Burma.
Kipling's glorification of the British Empire and racial prejudices, stated in his poem "The White Man's Burden" (1899), has repelled many readers.
Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, where his father was an arts and crafts teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art.
www.online-literature.com /kipling   (737 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling Winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudyard Kipling Winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudyard Kipling Coffee Mug (submitted by Ann Paulsen)
Read or search through a collection of Kipling's novels, poetry, and short stories.
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 Rudyard News
Local news for Rudyard, MI continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
A string of break-ins in the Western Mackinac County area are believed to have been solved.
Scam artists are alive and well, continuing their efforts to get into the pockets of Eastern Upper Peninsula residents, according to Rudyard resident Richard Filer.
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 Amazon.com: The Jungle Book (Tor Classics): Books: Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
by Rudyard Kipling "IT was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned,..." (more)
Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these wonderful stories again, and it was a bonus having all of Rudyard Kipling's stories together in one volume.
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 Alibris: Rudyard Kipling
Grab the reins for some good reading!, Eighteen wonderful stories (with line drawings throughout) from all over the world capture the universal appeal of that noblest of animals, the horse.
It is the story of his coming of age in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and the "great game" between the British and the Russians for control of Central Asia.
Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
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 The Literary Gothic | Rudyard Kipling
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, a Project Gutenberg etext (272K or zipped version 103K); also available in the massive collection The Works of Rudyard Kipling, One Volume Edition, a Project Gutenberg etext (1.85MB or zipped version 698K).
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, a Project Gutenberg etext (272K or zipped version 103K); also available as one of the tales in the massive collection The Works of Rudyard Kipling, One Volume Edition, a Project Gutenberg etext (1.85MB or zipped version 698K).
Kipling is believed to be the first English author who owned an automobile, so this may be the first ghost story in which an automobile appears (albeit in a fairly minor way).
www.litgothic.com /Authors/kipling.html   (869 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling - Free Online Library
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
A collection of short stories and poetry by Rudyard Kipling that includes "The Puzzler", "Little Foxes," "An Habitation Enforced," "The Recall," and "The Four Angels."
kipling.thefreelibrary.com   (428 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling Collection
The Rudyard Kipling Collection comprises correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of the British author (1865-1936) as well as Kipling research materials and Kiplingiana from a number of private collectors.
Box 1 Correspondence Rudyard Kipling Letters - Outgoing Date Type Recipient Ja 1889 ALS Mr.
1899) - Rudyard Kipling "Before Kipling Becomes a Myth" - Feb. 2, 1936 - H. McClure - typescript and printed release The Courting of Dinah Shadd A Contribution to a Bibliography of the Writings of Rudyard Kipling -1898 - private printing "Do women have to be alive today.
libwww.syr.edu /digital/guides/r/RudyardKiplingCollection-Inv.htm   (2930 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Rudyard Kipling (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Rudyard Kipling (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Rudyard, Michigan (49780) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground
Rudyard, Michigan (49780) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground
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Scattered light snow showers west of Bay Mills and Rudyard.
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 Career Preperation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Welcome to the career prep page for Rudyard Area Schools.
On the link bar to the left you will find links to several sites with useful information for students as they plan for their future education and careers.
If you use the Bridges site please contact Julie Kauppila to give her feedback about the usefulness of the site.
eup.k12.mi.us /rudyard/careerprep   (73 words)

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