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Hace 1 día · Life and career. 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 ...
Hace 1 día · RNA world. A comparison of RNA ( left) with DNA ( right ), showing the helices and nucleobases each employs. The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth, in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins. [1] The term also refers to the hypothesis that posits the ...
Hace 1 día · Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short ...
Hace 1 día · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to ...
Hace 1 día · His first title shot against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 242 in 2019 was “25 minutes to make life fair.” It didn’t go his way. In his second chance against Charles Oliveira at UFC 269 in 2021, it was “25 minutes for eternity.” Again, he fell short. Now, at UFC 302, Poirier carries a mantra: “Twenty-five minutes to finish the story.”
Hace 1 día · We, too, consider machine gun bullets good laxatives for heathens who get constipated with toxic ideas about a country of their own." ... Muttsy (Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life) 1926, short story. "Sweat" (1926), short story "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928), essay "Hoodoo in America" (1931) in The Journal of American Folklore
Hace 1 día · Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough insulin, or the cells of the body becoming unresponsive to the hormone's effects. Classic symptoms include thirst, polyuria, weight loss, and blurred vision.
