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Francesco Falconi
Francesco Falconi (born 26 June 1976 in Grosseto) is an Italian fantasy writer. Literary career He wrote his first book in 2006 with the series of fantasy novels for children ''Estasia'', published by Armando Curcio Editore. ''Estasia Danny Martine and the Crown Enchanted'' is a novel that the author wrote at the age of 14 years, influenced by the works of Michael Ende and subsequently published by Curcio in 2006. After ''Estasia'' he has written the saga of ''Prodigium'', published by Asengard Editions, which consists of two books: ''The Children of Elements'' and ''The Acropolis of Shadows''. Along with other Italian writers, in 2009 he participated in the anthology ''Sanctuary''. In 2010 he was published the social novel ''Gothica. The Angel of Death'', published by Edizioni Ambiente, then ''The Aurora Witches'', by Reverdito Publisher. In 2010 he published a new book, ''Nemesis The Order of the Apocalypse'' (Castelvecchi Publisher), with a sequel in fall 2011: ''Nemesis The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Fantasy Writers
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1976 Births
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VandA
''Vanda'', abbreviated in the horticultural trade as ''V.,'' is a genus in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. There are about 87 species, and the genus is commonly cultivated for the marketplace. This genus and its allies are considered to be among the most specifically adapted of all orchids within the Orchidaceae. The genus is highly prized in horticulture for its showy, fragrant, long-lasting, and intensely colorful flowers.The Orchids, Natural History and Classification, Robert L. Dressler. ''Vanda'' species are widespread across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, with a few species extending into Queensland and some of the islands of the western Pacific. Biology The name "Vanda" is derived from the Sanskrit (वन्दाका) name for the species ''Vanda roxburghii'' (a synonym of ''Vanda tessellata''). These mostly epiphytic, but sometimes lithophytic or terrestrial orchids, are distributed in India, Himalaya, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Azzolini
The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent population from which all organisms now living on Earth share common descent—the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. This includes all cellular organisms; the origins of viruses are unclear but they share the same genetic code. LUCA probably harboured a variety of viruses. The LUCA is not the first life on Earth, but rather the latest form ancestral to all existing life. While there is no specific fossil evidence of the LUCA, the detailed biochemical similarity of all current life confirms its existence. Its characteristics can be inferred from shared features of modern genomes. These genes describe a complex life form with many co-adapted features, including transcription and translation mechanisms to convert information from DNA to RNA to proteins. The LUCA probably lived in the high-temperature water of deep sea vents near ocean-floor magma flows around 4 billion years ago. Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Curcio Editore
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