![]() In the story "Misericorde", he declares to one of his foes that his father's name was Adam, and his stepmother's name was Eve, possibly making him the biological son of the Biblical Adam's first wife Lilith. ![]() In some of Wagner's later stories, Kane appears in the present day-for example, as a drug dealer in "Lacunae" and as a somewhat suspect publishing magnate in "At First Just Ghostly". Most Kane tales are sword and sorcery with strong elements of gothic horror and set in a grim, pre-medieval world which is nonetheless ancient and rich in history. ![]() Kane is a fictional character created by American author Karl Edward Wagner in a series of three novels and about 20 short stories published between 19. ![]() Fictional character created by Karl Edward Wagner ![]()
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![]() However, the term is shaded by the harsh treatment accorded to professional teachers in Plato's Socratic dialogues, which made the English term sophist into a pejorative. It and its English derivative deipnosophists thus describe people who are skilled at dining, particularly the refined conversation expected to accompany Greek symposia. The Greek title Deipnosophistaí ( Δειπνοσοφισταί) derives from the combination of deipno- ( δειπνο-, "dinner") and sophistḗs ( σοφιστής, "expert, one knowledgeable in the arts of ~"). ![]() It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on. The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work ( Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. ![]() Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation ![]() ![]() ![]() Sentence case capitalization: Capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns. Title case capitalization: Capitalize the first, last, and principal words. The body text begins immediately after the point. Indented, italics, sentence case capitalization, a final period. The body text begins immediately after the period. Indented, bold, italics, sentence case capitalization, a final period. Indented, bold, Sentence case capitalization, a final period. Left-Aligned, Bold, Title Case Capitalization These are the APA heading guidelines: Heading levelĬentered, Bold, Title Case Capitalization Each heading level is formatted differently. Heading levels two to five are used for subheadings. Major headings, or heading 1, are used for the titles of chapters such as “Methods” or “Results”. The levels ranging from one to five help structure the document. Throughout your paper you use different heading levels. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the integrity of the closest friend she's ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she's made about her life and her family. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. ![]() ![]() Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the "amazingly talented writer" ( HuffPost ) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. ![]() ![]() Worse yet, her exciting night out has terrible, unintended consequences when her entire town is evacuated because of a mysterious threat. But then Maddie's friends cancel on her at the last minute. No parents, no younger brothers, just lots of junk food and classic movies. ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Maddie Harrison can’t wait for the secret sleepover she has planned with her two best friends. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life? Reading Group Guide But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. ![]() She’s alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. ![]() When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watch as Anita goes up against fierce obstacles and is forced to make tough choices. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing secret about herself the source of her unusual strength and power. ![]() But as Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters in her hometown of St. She is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she moonlights by investigating cases that are far too much for ‘conventional’ police. Anita Blake is an ‘animator’ a profession that involves raising the dead for a living. Fusing mythology, werewolves, and vampires with a story loaded with mystery, action, and romance, the Anita Blake novels take place in a world where vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of nightmare have been declared legal citizens of the United States. ![]() ![]() So the short version: you cast the spell as a ring with the damage side in, and everyone standing exactly where the wall forms takes 5d8 damage or half on a Dex save meanwhile anyone surrounded by the ring takes no damage immediately, but will start taking 5d8 damage (no save) at the end of their turn, every turn, until the spell ends or they exit through the wall (taking another 5d8 fire damage, no save, for the effort). And notice that the save is Dexterity: it's for partially getting out of the way of the forming wall, not for partially resisting the damage (like a Con save would indicate). Since spells only do what they say and no more or less, and only grant saves when they say they do, nobody gets a saving throw for any other part of the spell.įurther, the area doesn't include the space surrounded by the wall: the area of a wall spell is only those spaces the wall itself actually occupies - everything surrounded by the wall is just “a bad place to be” (especially for wall of fire). That's the only time the spell grants anyone a saving throw. When the wall appears, each creature within its area must make a Dexterity saving throw. The saving throw is only for anyone in the area of the spell when the wall of fire first appears: However, it's better than you're thinking, because they don't get any saving throws! Yes, that's almost (but not quite) correct.Ĭreating the wall of fire as a ring means everyone inside is going to take damage, yes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you learn only one thing from this blogpost, be it that your examiner won’t mark your exam paper if you use Shakespeare’s handwriting. The name ‘Shakespeare’ was never spelled the same way twice in his signatures and so the spelling we associate with the man today might not even be accurate. So who was this bloke then, a drug lord? Not much is actually known about the man himself. ![]() In fact, he was a bit too cool – in 2015, the remains of a marijuana pipe were found in his garden in Stratford-upon-Avon, and in one of his portraits he dons a very hipster-looking earring. It turns out, Shakespeare was actually a pretty cool guy. ![]() Who the heck was he and why do people care so much about him?! The theory here is, if we break down the components, we’ll be left with a deconstructed pudding of a Renaissance play each element will be more accessible and more easily understood than before. So, let’s start from the very beginning (in the voice of Julie Andrews). And with the added terror of knowing you’ll be examined on it at the end of the year, it’s no wonder A-Level students often shudder at the word ‘Shakespeare’. Opening the pages of a Shakespeare play and attempting to read it for the first time can be… daunting. ![]() ![]() Jesus said, “If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.” Ask God for the grace to do his will, and you will see the truth of his Son. Keep your eyes open, and fill them with the portrait of Jesus in God’s Word. ![]() ![]() He calmed a raging storm with a word but would not get himself down from the cross. He baffled proud scribes with his wisdom but was understood and loved by children. The depth and complexity of Jesus shatter our simple mental frameworks. ![]() How? Jesus Christ-the divine Person revealed in the Bible-has a unique excellence and a spiritual beauty that speaks directly to our souls and says, “Yes, this is truth.” It’s like seeing the sun and knowing that it is light, or tasting honey and knowing that it is sweet. You’ve never met him in person, and you don’t know anyone who has. ![]() ![]() David and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately, as well as together, including Lascaux: A Work of Memory. ![]() Le Clézio recognized and paid tribute to Waberi in his 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture. His first collection of short stories, Le Pays Sans Ombre (published in English as The Land without Shadows) won Belgium's Royal Academy of French Language and Literature Grand Prix. He has published numerous books, articles, and stories. Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 and has lived in France since 1985. Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth. Now a young artist, this girl, Malaïka, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother-and perhaps something of her lost self. ![]() It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. ![]() On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. ![]() |