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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mark_TwainMark Twain - Wikipedia

    Hace 7 horas · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PinkPink - Wikipedia

    Hace 7 horas · Etymology and definitions. The color pink is named after the flowers, pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus, and derives from the frilled edge of the flowers. The verb "to pink" dates from the 14th century and means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern" (possibly from German picken, "to peck"). It has survived to the current day in pinking shears, hand-held scissors that ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leo_TolstoyLeo Tolstoy - Wikipedia

    Hace 1 día · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TulsidasTulsidas - Wikipedia

    Hace 7 horas · Transliteration and etymology The Sanskrit name of Tulsidas can be transliterated in two ways. Using the original Sanskrit, the name is written as Tulasīdāsa. Using the Hunterian transliteration system, it is written as Tulsidas or Tulsīdās reflecting the vernacular pronunciation. The lost vowels are an aspect of the Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages and can vary between regions. The ...