Word: london
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Before Adam," by Jack London...
...temporary exile. He came to this country in 1875, and lived on a farm in Kansas for two years. He then moved to Philadelphia, going most of the way on foot, and worked in a ship-yard in Chester. Shortly after this he returned to Europe, but settled in London, where he has had his headquarters since 1880, visiting Russia from time to time "on business...
...peasant party in the last Russian Duma, has a very great influence over the entire industrial and farmers' party, and is one of the strongest revolutionary forces in Russia. Though born a peasant, he is well educated, speaking English, French, and Italian fluently. He has often visited London, and has given talks in Whitechapel, the heart of the laboring quarter. In 1905 he returned to St. Petersburg, and was asked by the peasants to run for deputy in the Duma. On receiving information that he was being watched closely, he decided to leave the country, and on returning, learned that...
...Thompson-Seton spent his early life in the woods of Canada and on the Western plains where he made an especial study of nature. He is a graduate of the Toronto Collegiate Institute and the Royal Academy, London, and is the official naturalist to the government of Manitoba. Among his best-known books are "Wild Animals I Have Known," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," "The Biography of a Grizzly," and "Lives of the Hunted...
This play, which was first acted in 1611, was written mainly as a satire, holding up to ridicule the ranting, heroic plays so much in favor at the time, and the ignorant London burgesses who applauded them. Naturally, its butts condemned it on its first representation, but it was afterwards revived and became a common stage property during the seventeenth century. Later judgment has held it to be one of the most original of the Elizabethan comedies, both in its wit and biting satire upon the time, and its fantastic plot and humorous drawing of character...