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![]() ![]() He proclaimed as augusti (co-emperors) his elder son Caracalla in 198 and his younger son Geta in 209, both born of his second wife Julia Domna. In 202, he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes, capturing their capital Garama and expanding the Limes Tripolitanus along the southern desert frontier of the empire. He then enlarged and fortified the Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea. Following the consolidation of his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding the eastern frontier to the Tigris. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul. ![]() Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. Niger was defeated in 194 at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia. Severus seized power after the death of the emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.Īfter deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the Roman generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. ![]() Lucius Septimius Severus ( Latin: 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. ![]() ![]() The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen Quiz and Answer Key. Born in Denmark, the son of a shoemaker, Hans Christian Andersen. The Ugly Duckling is one of our Favorite Fairy Tales. Here are all of Andersen’s 154 tales, and among the favourites are The Red Shoes, The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Tinder Box and of course The Ugly Duckling. Find items like The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen at Daedalus Books. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, and The Nightingale, are remarkable for their. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 18.įor 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. ![]() Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. ![]() From the classic translation by H.P.Paull (1872), revised and partly re-translated by W.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, shorts like 'Pop Squad', 'The People of Sand and Slag' and 'Pump Six' will stick with me longer than anything in Ship Breaker. If you too are looking for more of that, you're better off reading and re-reading Bacigalupi's short story collection Pump Six. I read that Ship Breaker was set in the same dystopian future of WindUp Girl and wanted more of that. I read WindUp Girl less than a month ago, and then proceeded to DEVOUR everything else published by the author over the last few weeks. There's too little of that here for me, but if you liked Bacigalupi's The Alchemist, I think you'll be happy with Ship Breaker. There are elements here reminiscent of RLS' Treasure Island (without being derivative), but I picked this up because I wanted to know more about the world I saw in The WindUp Girl. ![]() ![]() Also, I'm not a YA reader, for whom this book is intended. The characters in Ship Breaker are fine and appropriately likable/hatable, but Bacigalupi has engaged me more deeply with less time and words in previous work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sentences are clipped, descriptive prose is fleeting and the vocabulary is limited and therefore numbingly repetitive. Okay, so the writing in this book is absolutely horrible, beginning with the most brutally short paragraphs this side of a Guardian article. Eventually, Elsie gets the flu and dies, only to return as an angry ghost with a particular grudge against Rosie, the leader of the clique, and guilt-stricken Annie. ![]() There’s no doubt that Elsie brings it on herself, but she’s grossly outnumbered and Annie feels bad about her part in it (not that it stops her). Annie is prevented from making any other friends until Elsie is absent from school, at which point Annie is finally brought into the popular circle – and takes part in their ceaseless bullying of Elsie. Shy Annie Browne is new in school and on her first day is immediately “befriended” by Elsie Schneider, a lying, controlling, destructive little psycho whom all the other girls despise. It’s 1918 and the Spanish Flu is making the rounds of America. Historical fiction.įirst Sentence: Although I didn’t realize it, my troubles began when we moved to Portman Street, and I became a student in the Pearce Academy for Girls, the finest school in the town of Mount Pleasant, according to father. Prepare yourself for a rant, because there will be no prisoners taken, nor will I be using any spoiler warnings in this review…Įdition: Scholastic Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Revenge against the North, against other races, against each other the horrible feelings of a defeated and broken world. Meanwhile, Bent and Ashton are still looking for revenge, which is the running theme of the novel. ![]() Madeleine, Orry's widow, tries to fight racism and provide for the freedmen of her plantation. Charles Main-the focus of the book-must deal with his status as traitor, as well as the death of his lover and raising his infant son, while he tries to find a place in the American West. The Hazards and Mains attempt to survive in the Reconstruction era in this the final book of the North and South Trilogy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: very light wear to extremities barely discernible crease near the heel of the back strip and a crease along the front hinge the top of the rear hinge has been bumped, and there is a fairly mild crumple crease at that point a bit of shelf-soiling along the bottom edge binding shows the slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure text clean. ![]() ![]() Would you recommend The Hard Thing About Hard Things to your friends? Why or why not? But the business that I am planning to start doesn't match the authors information and experience and this isn't the right book for me. There's nothing essentially wrong with this book. ![]() Is there anything you would change about this book?īetter information in the review and I probably wouldn't buy this one. Not for me! I've listened to a couple of chapters A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.įilled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz’s personal and often humbling experiences. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. ![]() While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup - practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Price-Ridley), Janet McTeer(Anne Protheroe), Jason Flemyng(Lawrence Redding), Tim McInnerny(Reverend Leonard Clement), Rachael Stirling(Griselda Clement), Stephen Tompkinson(Inspector Slack), Jane Asher(Mrs. Agatha Christie's MARPLE Season 1 (UK) The Body in the Library, 2004Ĭast Geraldine McEwan(Miss Jane Marple), Joanna Lumley(Dolly Bantry), Simon Callow(Colonel Melchett), Ian Richardson(Conway Jefferson), Tara Fitzgerald(Adelaide Jefferson), Jamie Theakston(Mark Gaskell), Jack Davenport(Superintendent Harper), Adam Garcia(Raymond Starr), David Walliams(George Bartlett), Ben Miller(Basil Blake)Ĭast Geraldine McEwan(Miss Jane Marple), Sir Derek Jacobi(Colonel Protheroe), Miriam Margolyes(Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With no dishonor to those who endured the unspeakable traumas of the First World War, reading Brendon's scholarly tome leaves little scope to argue with the assertion, made by Leon Blum, among others, that the economic crisis and its effects were as traumatic as the "war to end all wars." Worse was to come, for sure, but the events that led to the "chasm" of the Second World War still boggle the mind-from our safe distance it is difficult to comprehend that this actually came to pass, yet at the same time the whole era seems to be engulfed by a fatalistic air of inevitability. But, as Piers Brendon's epic history of the same name vividly demonstrates, it was apt to describe any of the world's leading nations of the time-the crippled, traumatized European powers, a moody, solitary U.S., Stalin's outcast Soviet Union, and volatile, upstart Japan-with varying degrees of severity and fascinatingly contrasting outcomes. "Dark Valley" as a phrase was coined first by the Japanese to refer to the desperate years of chaotic depression that followed the 1929 slump. ![]() ![]() On paper, the 2006 Eragon movie looked destined to be a guaranteed hit. So, while we wait for the new series to go into production, what happened to that original Eragon movie and why were the sequels never made? ![]() There was a movie of the same name in 2006, one that at the time was expected to be first instalment of a new blockbuster fantasy movie series. As fans of the novels know, the proposed Disney+ series is not the first time that Eragon has been adapted for the screen. "This has been a long time coming," Paolini wrote on Twitter after the announcement, and it certainly does seem like an adaptation was a long time in the making. Paolini has now told Eragon's story over four books – The Inheritance Cycle – and last month, it was reported that Disney+ is developing a live-action series, co-written by Paolini, based on the novels. The story of a farm boy named Eragon who finds a dragon egg in the mountains and becomes bonded to the dragon (Saphira) that emerges from inside, the book became something of a publishing sensation, and ripe for a big (or small) screen adaptation. ![]() ![]() Back in 1998, Montana teenager Christopher Paolini began writing a YA fantasy novel entitled Eragon. ![]() |