There are questions on sports, music and historical figures from William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill.
The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.
Time and time again throughout the book Goldberg will concede that, yes, conservatives, and various historical figures with whom conservatives sympathize, have made a number of mistakes, even a couple of very grave and serious mistakes.
Explore the vast area on a golf cart, hopping on and off to see abbreviated operas from the Tang Dynasty days, laser shows on the lake, elaborate man-made waterfalls, as well as murals and statues of historical figures, philosophers and poets.
He said casting historical and political figures, who are known to the audience, is different from putting a face to a character from a novel.
Among them recently: a reporter working on a magazine story about the bull mastiffs that once roamed the Rockefeller estate, another writer researching historical figures and their dogs.
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The council has argued the proposals were was based on historical figures and without a proper assessment of future risks and demands of continuing population increases in Windsor and Slough.
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It also supplied five-year historical figures on job and income growth, as well as migration trends.
There is a wealth of figures, charts and historical references in the work, but what is most intriguing is the authors' emphasis on coffee's role in attracting and fomenting unrest.
Films are steeped in lore of the little guy raging against injustice, sometimes based on historical figures such as Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Frank and Jesse James, said Elayne Rapping, a retired professor of American and media studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
There are potted biographies of several important historical figures: ex-governors and high-profile business leaders, for the most part.
The pieces, which will go on view next fall, include 32 bronze figures and relief sculptures from the historical kingdom of Benin in what is now southwestern Nigeria.
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One of the reasons for this literary success is that Mantel seems to have written a very good modern novel, then changed all her fictional names to English historical figures of the fifteen-twenties and thirties.
Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra to Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Taylor, the hotel's guestbook reads like an A-list of twentieth century historical figures -- not to mention tens of thousands of well-to-do tourists and travelers.
It is scholarly yet free of jargon, compassionate yet not over-emotional, moral without being preachy, stuffed with facts and figures yet brought alive by a myriad of vivid historical, contemporary and personal anecdotes.
Eventually in the 1970s and 80s he was widely feted for his historical novels based on the lives of US figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
And that led to his famous series of landscapes, many associated with important literary figures or historical sites.
At press time, Abbott Labs did not release 2012 historical figures as a new stand-alone company, so its sales, profit and asset figures and ranks are based on consolidated figures prior to the separation.
With a single tap, readers can see all passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon's community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.
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