- An
anecdote is "a
story with a point", such as to
communicate an
abstract idea
about a person, place, or
thing through the
concrete details of a short...
- "
Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "
Anecdote for Fathers,
Shewing how the
practice of
Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by
William Wordsworth first published...
-
Anecdote of the Jar I
placed a jar in Tennessee, And
round it was, upon a hill. It made the
slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness...
-
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th
president of the
United States, was born on
November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's
Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to...
-
Anekdote zur
Senkung der
Arbeitsmoral ("
Anecdote on
Lowering the work ethic") is a
short story by
Heinrich Böll
about an
encounter between an enterprising...
- The
Anecdote is the
debut studio album by
South Korean rapper E Sens. It was
released on
August 27, 2015, by
Beasts And
Natives Alike. The album's first...
-
modern biographies, the
accounts in the "Biographies" give
profiles using anecdotes to
depict morals and character, with "unforgettably
lively impressions...
- (Les)
Anecdotes de Suède ("Swedish
Anecdotes") is a
political satire written against the
Swedish regime of the 1680s.
Probably dating to the end of that...
- "hypocritical". He
wrote the
foreword and
helped to
promote a book of
anecdotes called Sheffield United: The Biography. He also
follows Yorkshire County...
- "Earthy
Anecdote" is the
first poem in
Wallace Stevens'
first book of
poetry Harmonium (1923). The p****age of a
group of "bucks" is
impeded by a "firecat"...
