miscellany
51Schott's Miscellanies — are a trio of best selling books by Ben Schott. They consist of a collection of trivia generally centred on the culture of the United Kingdom (and to a lesser extent the rest of the European Union and the Commonwealth). The first book was… …
52Allan Ramsay (poet) — Infobox Writer name = Allan Ramsay caption = Portrait by William Aikman (1682 1731) [Ramsay s friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman s portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas: Here… …
53List of Dewey Decimal classes — The Dewey Decimal Classification is a system of library classification made up of ten classes, each divided into ten divisions, each having ten sections (although there are only 99 of 100 divisions and 908 of 999 sections in total, as some are no …
54Nikša Ranjina — Nikša Andretić Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina (1494–1582) was a writer and noblemen from the Republic of Ragusa (modern day Dubrovnik), most famous as the compiler of Ranjina s Miscellany. Ranjina is the most famous for his manuscript collection of… …
55Korean literature — Introduction the body of works written by Koreans, at first in classical Chinese, later in various transcription systems using Chinese characters, and finally in Hangul (Korean: han gŭl; or Hankul in the Yale romanization), the national… …
56Pitcairn Islands — Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands Pitkern Ailen …
57William Mesny — General William Mesny 1842 1919, was an adventurer, and writer born on the island of Jersey but spent most of his childhood in Alderney, the family home of the Mesnys. He was the eldest of three children of William Mesny and Mary Rachel Nicolle.… …
58Ben Schott — is a British writer and author of the Schott s Miscellanies and Schott s Almanac series.Ben Schott was born in North London, England on May 26, 1974, the son of a neurologist and a nurse. He has one brother, also now a neurologist. He went to… …
59George Shaw — George Shaw, Punktstich von Ambroise Tardieu, Paris, 1820er Jahre[1] George Shaw (* 10. Dezember 1751, Bierton nahe Aylesbury, Mittelengland; † 22. Juli 1813, London) war ein englischer Naturforscher …
60literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
