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Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
The list of poems by Philip Larkin come mostly from the four volumes of poetry published during his lifetime: [1] [2] The North Ship (July 1945) The Less Deceived (November 1955, dated October) The Whitsun Weddings (February 1964) High Windows (June 1974) Philip Larkin (1922–1985) also published other poems. They, along with the contents of ...
An Arundel Tomb. The monument in Chichester Cathedral. "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined in Chichester Cathedral.
The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms of the number of surviving manuscripts, the most popular poem written in English before print, with over 130 known copies. The text is divided into seven sections: man's sinfulness, the ...
The name Alcon (/ ˈ æ l k ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical history: Alcon the Molossian (6th century BC) suitor of Agariste of Sicyon . Alcon, a surgeon ( vulnerum medicus ) at Rome in the reign of Claudius , 41–54, who is said by Pliny to have been banished to Gaul , and to have ...
James Dillet Freeman. James Dillet Freeman (March 20, 1912 – April 9, 2003) was a poet and a minister of the Unity Church, a New Thought denomination. Freeman was born Abraham Freedman [1] according to his Delaware Birth Certificate in Wilmington, Delaware but began using the name James very early. His father was Jacob Freedman, who was ...
The name Alcon ( / ˈælkɒn /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical myth: Alcon, a Laconian prince as the son of King Hippocoon, usurper of Tyndareus. He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. Alcon was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta.
Aldhelm (Old English: Ealdhelm, Latin: Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 639 – 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century.