William Blake mocked the British monarchy with his illustration of Nebuchadnezzar eating grass from a story in the Book of Daniel.

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He was also called the Son of Man, reaching back to an ancient Hebraic phrase, which had rather humbling connotations. (It was in the Book of Daniel that a visionary figure called the Son of Man came into view, in apocalyptic terms).

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Hollywood hitmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard of Imagine Entertainment plan to turn the Rich saga into a movie, based on the 2009 book by Swiss journalist Daniel Ammann, The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich.

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In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.

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In January of 2011, German former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg plans to publish a book detailing multiple years inside the controversial whistle-blower organization.

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In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman cites compelling research done in the lab of Dr. Kathleen Vohs at the University of Minnesota on the psychological effects of money on human behavior.

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In his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman argues that comprehensive, targeted and organized environmental data can trigger real market shifts among consumers.

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