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Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) Signature. Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [1] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [2] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and ...
Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper ( folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet . In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages – front and back. In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in ...
On Fairy-Stories. " Leaf by Niggle " is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 [ T 1] and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It was reprinted in Tolkien's book Tree and Leaf, and in several later collections. Contrary to Tolkien's claim that he despised allegory in any form, the story is an allegory of Tolkien ...
In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire.
She has come to the rooms of Squires—a classicist who sets crosswords for Varsity as the Sphinx—to seek the answers to the next day's crossword. Squires sets about to teach Nina: "I teach wild creature without hospital building" results in ARCHITECTURE, which Simon studies. They turn to the clues for the next day, beginning to fill a large ...
The 39 Clues. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel.
Illuminated manuscript. Various examples of pages from illuminated manuscripts. An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the ...
Clue. (musical) Clue The Musical is a musical with a book by Peter DePietro, music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci, and lyrics by Tom Chiodo, based on the board game Clue. The plot concerns a murder at a mansion, occupied by several suspects, that is solved by a detective, while the ending is decided by the audience.