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Significance of Study. Dylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series created by Tiziano Sclavi and published by Sergio Bonelli Editore since 1986. The series features the eponymous character, a paranormal investigator who takes on cases involving supernatural elements such as ghosts, demons, vampires, undeads, werewolves and other creatures, but also horrifying sociopathic criminals and […]

Introduction Ayn Rand in her 20s Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2, 1905. At age six she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age

Significance of the Study Homer’s somewhat mythologized early account the Ethiopians, the first significant Greco-Ethiopian interaction is traceable back to the employment of Ionian and Carian mercenaries in lower Egypt sometime in the mid-7th century BCE Ethiopians as superhuman Herodotus 3.23 The Fish-eaters then in turn asking of the Ethiopian length of life and diet,

Significance of Study: Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr was born in 1909 to Beatrice and Alexander Raymond in New Rochelle, NY. Alex’s father was a civil engineer, who supported his son’s artistic interests. Sadly, the elder Raymond died when his son was 12, and Alex Jr. decided against going into art as a career. Instead, Raymond

Significance of Study In the last decades the Sunjata epic has enjoyed much attention as a masterpiece of African oral literature; at American universities it is often part of undergraduate courses on literature or world history. The Sunjata epic is considered part of the historical heritage of the famous medieval Mali empire: already in the

Significance of the Study:  Yevgeny Zamyatin, born in 1884, was a Russian author and playwright known for his groundbreaking contributions to dystopian literature. Born in Lebedyan, Zamyatin studied naval engineering at St Petersburg, a background that heavily influenced his works. Zamyatin’s works often criticized the oppressive nature of the political regimes in his time, exploring

Significance of Study Invented the word “robot.” Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “R.U.R.” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. It was performed in New York City the next year, and by the year after that, it had been translated into 30 languages. Translated, that is, except

Excerpt by Shaun Whittaker: Zodiac WorldTales of the Offspring:Scorpio heir to the Throne:Shanda Muh The Land of the DeadShandaMuhAn ancient already, Powers of her mother’s ancient breath, gave her a new body. Shanda Muh, New power, unimaginable to World, yet to be unleashed. To utter the power, of the new elite trained, Guardians of the

Abstract: Isaac Asimov was born in the Soviet Union to his great surprise. He moved quickly to correct the situation. When his parents emigrated to the United States, Isaac (three years old at the time) stowed away in their baggage. He has been an American citizen since the age of eight. Brought up in Brooklyn,

One Day in the Life of Ivan Abstract: An inmate in a Siberian prison camp, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov awakes in the dark and cold of early morning. Feeling sick, he lingers too long in his bunk. He is caught by a guard and is ordered to wash the guardroom floor; this is a light sentence,