• Fine Arts

    Posted by pompos 04/21/2009 @ 12:15 3.47204968942 (161)

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    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor...
    Academy of Fine Arts Munich
    The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) was founded 1808 by Maximilian I of...
    Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (German: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria. The Academy...

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  • John le Carré

    Posted by pompos 04/20/2009 @ 14:09 3.40140845068 (142)

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    John le Carré
    John le Carré (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell) (born 19 October 1931) is an English author of espionage novels, several of which have been...
    Spy fiction
    The genre of spy fiction—sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to spy-fi—arose before World War I at...
    Charlotte Cornwell
    Charlotte Cornwell (born 26 April 1949) is an actress and the half-sister of spy novelist John le Carré (David Cornwell). She describes him as "the...
    Bill Haydon
    Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré. He was played in the television version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by Ian...

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  • Andrés Duany

    Posted by pompos 04/14/2009 @ 15:07 3.27027027025 (222)

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    Andrés Duany
    Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect and urban planner. Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He...
    New Urbanism
    New Urbanism is an urban design movement that arose in the United States in the early 1980s. Its goal is to reform many aspects of real estate...
    Seaside, Florida
    Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle in Walton County, roughly midway between Fort Walton Beach and Panama...
    Prospect New Town
    Prospect New Town is a New Urbanist housing development located on the southern edge of the city of Longmont in Boulder County, Colorado in the...

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  • Salman Rushdie

    Posted by pompos 04/13/2009 @ 18:07 3.43119266051 (218)

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    Salman Rushdie
    Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's...
    Knighthood of Salman Rushdie
    Rushdie was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 16 June 2007. He remarked, "I am thrilled and humbled...
    Cat Stevens' comments about Salman Rushdie
    Following Ayatollah Khomeini's February 14, 1989 death threat fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, convert to Islam and former recording artist Yusuf...
    Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction...

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  • Interior designer

    Posted by pompos 04/07/2009 @ 13:12 3.50694444444 (144)

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    Douglas Wilson (interior designer)
    Douglas Wilson is best known for appearing as an interior designer on Trading Spaces. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at...
    Kenneth Brown (interior designer)
    Kenneth Brown (born March 16, 1971) is an American interior designer and decorator. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he attended Louisiana...
    Tom Caldwell
    Tom Caldwell (30 June, 1921 - November 2002) was a politician, art dealer and interior designer in Northern Ireland. Born in Uganda, Caldwell moved...
    Kerry Joyce
    Kerry Joyce is an award winning interior designer and product designer. He directs the firm Kerry Joyce Associates, which has offices in Los Angeles...

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  • Kinky Friedman

    Posted by pompos 04/05/2009 @ 12:23 3.3223140496 (121)

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    Kinky Friedman
    Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31 or November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former...
    Larry Sloman
    Larry "Ratso" Sloman is a New York-based author best known for his collaboration with Howard Stern on the radio personality's two best-selling books...
    Okie from Muskogee
    Okie From Muskogee is an album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1969. Haggard has stated that the title song on this album is somewhat...
    Guy Juke
    Guy Juke (born 1951), aka De White, has been an Austin, Texas based artist and musician since moving there in 1973 from nearby San Angelo, Texas. He...

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  • Flannery O'Connor

    Posted by pompos 03/20/2009 @ 16:07 3.43956043958 (91)

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    Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short...
    Flannery O'Connor
    Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25 1925 – August 3 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Flannery O'Connor was the only...
    Flannery O'Connor bibliography
    The bibliography of Flannery O'Connor includes thirty-one short stories, two novels, and several collections. Listed in chronological order, based on...
    American literature
    American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions...

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  • New Orleans Museum of Art

    Posted by pompos 03/19/2009 @ 17:10 3.42241379313 (116)

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    New Orleans Museum of Art
    The New Orleans Museum of Art (often referred to as NOMA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art with a...
    Culture of New Orleans
    The people and culture of New Orleans have made New Orleans, Louisiana unique among and distinct from other cities in the United States, including...
    New Orleans
    New Orleans (pronounced /nuːˈɔliənz, nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects; French: La...
    List of museums in Louisiana
    This list of museums in Louisiana is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government...

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  • Cormac Mccarthy

    Posted by pompos 03/11/2009 @ 16:16 3.28346456694 (127)

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    Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island), is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten...
    Cormac McCarthy (musician)
    Cormac McCarthy is an American folk singer/songwriter. He was born in Ohio but moved to rural New Hampshire at age ten. He was inspired to play music...
    The Road
    The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son...
    Beloved (novel)
    Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case...

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  • Dan Brown

    Posted by pompos 03/09/2009 @ 15:09 3.56565656565 (99)

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    Dan Brown
    Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code and the...
    Richard Leigh (author)
    Richard Leigh (August 16, 1943 – November 21, 2007) was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey who spent most of his life in England...
    Inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code, a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated a great deal of criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of...
    Priory of Sion
    The Prieuré de Sion, translated from French as Priory of Sion, is a name given to multiple groups, both real and fictitious. The most notorious is a...

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