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Hace 13 horas · Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who ...
Hace 13 horas · Early life. Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952, at The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario. His father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd (1922–2020), a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and his mother, Lorraine Hélène Marie (née Gougeon; 1918–2018), was a secretary. His mother was of French Canadian descent and his father was of English ...
Hace 13 horas · Early life. Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in the neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego, California, to Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres; 1894–1992), and Gregory Pearl Peck (1886–1962), a Rochester, New York–born chemist and pharmacist. His father was of English (paternal) and Irish (maternal) heritage, and his mother was of English and Scots ancestry.
Hace 4 horas · In a late-night Instagram screed, he’d responded to the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake battle, and all the hype surrounding it, by declaring, “Hip-hop is truly dead.”. It was either the perfect pitch for a book that chronicles rap’s recorded history through Questlove’s hyper-subjective lens, or a publicity nightmare.
