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111Distancing effect — The distancing effect, commonly mistranslated as the alienation effect[dubious – discuss] (German: Verfremdungseffekt), is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and… …
112On Dangerous Ground — For other uses, see On Dangerous Ground (disambiguation). On Dangerous Ground Theatrical release poster Directed by Ni …
113Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer — (born January 17, 1968, Rijswijk), Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classic scholar, was born in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, now lives and works in Leiden. Biography Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer made his début in 1998 with a collection entitled Of… …
114Curtain (novel) — Curtain: Poirot s Last Case   …
115Dichogamy — is the separation in time of gender expression in a hermaphroditic organism, a characteristic of some fishes, gastropods, and most flowering plants. In flowering plants In the context of the flowering plants (angiosperms), there are two forms of… …
116John Heathcoat — Infobox Engineer image size = 150px caption = John Heathcoat name = John Heathcoat nationality = English birth date = 7 August 1783 birth place = Duffield death date = 18 January 1861 death place = education = spouse = parents = children =… …
117Thomas Hodgskin — (b. December 12, 1787 Chatham, Kent, d. August 21, 1869 Feltham, Middlesex) was an english socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism, free market anarchist [Gregg Jr., Footnote 2 in Kenneth R. George Henry Evans The Origins Of… …
118William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel — Infobox Person name = William IV, Landgrave of Hesse Kassel image size = 200px caption = birth date = 24 June 1532 birth place = Kassel, Germany death date = 25 August 1592 death place = education = occupation = title = spouse = parents =… …
119John Wilkinson (poet) — John Wilkinson is a contemporary English poet, born in 1953. From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the… …
120Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni — Jean Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servando or Servandoni (May 2, 1695 January 19, 1766) was a French decorator, architect, scene painter and trompe l œil specialist. He was the son of a carriage builder at Lyon.From 1724 to 1742 …
