Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Ann Rinaldi: (August 27, 1934 – July 1, 2021). American journalist and young adult fiction author. She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father’s House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She wrote more… Lees verder Ann Rinaldi

Harry Warren: (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981). American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing “Lullaby of Broadway”, “You’ll Never Know” and “On the Atchison,… Lees verder Harry Warren

Thomas Eugene Robbins: (born July 22, 1932)[1] American novelist. His most notable works are “seriocomedies” (also known as “comedy drama”). Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant.… Lees verder Tom Robbins

Matthew Scott Porter: (Omaha (Nebraska), 14 July 1979). American actor. Porter made his breakthrough in 2006, with a recurring supporting role in As the World Turns. After a guest role in the pilot of Ugly Betty, Porter got the role of Jason Street in Friday Night Lights. If any of you have ever lived down… Lees verder Scott Porter

William Howard Gass: (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017). American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of… Lees verder William H. Gass

Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.

George Washington Cable: (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called “the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century”, as well as “the first modern Southern writer.” For summer there, bear… Lees verder George Washington-Cabel

Dwight David Eisenhower: (Denison (Texas), 14 October 1890 – Washington, 28 March 1969). American general and politician. He was the commander-in-chief/General of the Army (five-star general) of Allied forces in Europe during World War II and the 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed,… Lees verder Dwight D. Eisenhouwer

John Hoyer Updike: (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009). American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen… Lees verder John Updike

Aneurin Bevan: (Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, 15 November 1897 – London, 6 July 1960). Better known as Nye Bevan, was a British socialist politician for the Labour Party, and founder of the British health system (National Health Service, ‘NHS’). Bevan was seen as Winston Churchill’s direct political opponent. If freedom is to be saved and enlarged,… Lees verder Aneurin Bevan