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Authors & Writers Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001) A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith. Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also...
Editor: A person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine
This is an international project. Feel free to add translated "overview" pages & project titles. Project collaborators, please go ahead editing or adding to the project overview.Please add Geni profiles of book keepers, archivists, professional librarians, etc to this project (profiles must be set to public).From A Brief History of Librarians ===The Earliest Libraries===Libraries in the Western...
The Lithuanian press ban (Lithuanian: spaudos draudimas) was a ban on all Lithuanian language publications printed in the Latin alphabet in force from 1865 to 1904 within the Russian Empire, which controlled Lithuania at the time. Lithuanian-language publications that used Cyrillic were allowed and even encouraged.The concept arose after the failed January Uprising of 1863, taking the form of a...
This project is dedicated to tracing ancestors in Lithuania at its present territories and Lithuania Propria historical lands. This portal provides a list of online genealogy sources, such as registries and archives of Lithuanian documents. If you have Lithuanian ancestors or study ancestral lines deriving from Lithuania Propria, please follow and participate in this project. Lithuanian La...
Norge har en rik litteratur, og dette prosjektet tar sikte på å samle profiler for forfattere med deres slektshistorie.===Wikipedia===Norsk litteratur er den litteratur og fortellerkunst som er blitt skrevet i Norge eller av nordmenn. Norsk litteraturs historie går tilbake enkle Eddadikt og komplekse skaldekvad fra førkristen tid på 800- og 900-tallet og med diktere som Brage den gamle og Øyvin...
“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” — Anaïs Nin Throughout world history, the majority of public, educational, and religious institutions have censored certain books for political, religious, or cultural reasons. This project serves as a place to gather together the writers -- cherished, reviled, or anywhere in-between -- who have had their work hidden ...
(This is the Master Project for all things Science Fiction related. This is a work in progress. All help solicited and need).Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a wide range of subgenres and themes. Author, Mark C. Glassy, argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography: you don't know what it is, but you know it when you see it. ( Science ...
British Writers: A - CThis project is a place to gather together profiles of British born writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.Names are arranged alphabetically and spread across 6 projects to handle the numbers. (The arrowed buttons below are linked to the other pages).
Authors of great literature that teaches, elevates, inspires and ennobles mankind. Authors - alphabetical index, wikisource This project is on History Link Selected authors by activity period: BCE Homer, Ὅμηρος Homēros (8th Century BCE ) Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey ; revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. Aeschylus Αισχύλος (c.525 BCE – c.456 BCE ) Ancient Gr...
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its seven television series: * The Original Series * The Animated Series * The Next Generation * Deep Space Nine * Voyager * Enterprise * Discovery The franchise also includes eleven feature films, dozens of games, hundreds of novels, as well as a themed attraction in Las Vegas...
Help is requested to find the former owners==Genealogists are being asked for help in providing information leading to the original owners of a large collection of approximately 10,000 books so-called the “Stürmer or Streicher Library”currently in the possession of the Jewish Community of Nuremberg (IKG). Remnants of the books were given to the city library on permanent loan by the Jewish Commu...
This project is to feature writers, of books, pulp, comics and film-Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust.Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing".It creates an eerie and frigh...
British Writers: H - KThis project is a place to gather together profiles of British born writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.Names are arranged alphabetically and spread across 6 projects to handle the numbers. (The arrowed buttons below are linked to the other pages).
British Writers: T - ZThis project is a place to gather together profiles of British born writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.Names are arranged alphabetically and spread across 6 projects to handle the numbers. (The arrowed buttons below are linked to the other pages).
Mutiny on the HMS Bounty==This project covers the history of the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Project scope includes all crew of HMS Bounty both loyal and mutineer, judges in the trial of William Bligh, and descendants of the Bounty mutineers. Additionally this project will include actors involved with later movie adaptations of the historical events."...The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny a...
Levinia Perry arrived in Mountain City, Colorado Territory, from Cornwall, England, on September 21, 1863. The day she stepped off the stagecoach, she married her sweetheart Hugh Champion, who had waited for her for two long years.This book, authored by her granddaughter Amy Hoskin Hill and adapted by the author's grandson Dennis Mayfield, tells the true story of Levinia's struggles in the mini...