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Author: Norman Carter
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 195
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Author: Norman Carter
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 195
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Publisher: Sydney : Currawong Publishing Company
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Beatrice K. Otto
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-04
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0226640914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.
Author: Duane Ryan
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 94
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Published: 1784
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Goodall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1137406801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.
Author: Robert Armin
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erik Lee Preminger
Publisher: Frog Books
Published: 2004-01-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781583940969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn her home movies into a blockbuster—make for comedic yet poignant reading. My G-String Mother is a stylish, incisive portrait of two lives: an awkward adolescent who was as much confidante, co-conspirator, and companion as son, and the legendary woman who told police at a raid at the famous Minsky’s burlesque house, 'I wasn’t naked. I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.'
Author: Cameron Forbes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 1459622103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates. 'Hellfire' was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle, and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese.