Stewart Moskowitz
Stewart Moskowitz (July 6, 1941 – May 23, 2017) was an American artist, illustrator, and children's book author. His paintings in the style of pop art gained popularity through the 1970s and early 1980s in America through the sale of posters and prints. Early career His first success in mass produced prints was "American Rabbit"''.'' Later successes included "Penguins...the Corporation", "The White Brothers", "Chocolate Mousse", "Patchwork Cow", and "Chicken Soup". His characters and artistic style became especially popular in Japan in the early 1980s. Moskowitz published several children's books of his own in 1982. By 1986, several of the characters in Moskowitz's paintings were used in the movie '' The Adventures of the American Rabbit''. His work remained strongly popular in Japan. His art formed the basis of logo and commercial illustration for several Japanese companies (among them AT&T Japan, Fuji, Mitsubishi, Panasonic), children's books, and animated movies in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1993 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events *September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi. *November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel ''The Shipping News''. *''unknown dates'' **Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel ''Cranes' Morning'' appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994. **Professor Stephen Hawking's ''A Brief History of Time'' becomes the longest-running book on ''The Sunday Times'' UK bestseller list. **Reality television contest ''Million's Poet'' (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. **Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's ''Bajazet (play), Bajazet'' is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre. **The Guodian C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Children's Writers
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American Cartoonists
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2017 Deaths
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1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops def ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events *January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up the Bodies''. *March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. *March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. *March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. *July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. *c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, apparent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1997 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997. Events * February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam. He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30. * May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's ''Henry V''. *June 3 – The supposed climax of Max Beerbohm's 1916 short story ''Enoch Soames'' occurs at the old British Museum Reading Room in London. *June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first '' Harry Potter'' novel, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies. *July 13 – The release occurs in Ireland of the film of Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel '' The Butcher Boy''. The author plays Jimmy The Skite, the town drunk. *September 1 – ''The Adventures of Captain Underp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1994 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994. Events *October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book ''How Late It Was, How Late'' as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial. One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Mogadon" the following week. *November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman. *December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn) is founded in Reykjavík by merging the former national ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2013 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. *26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. * 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. *April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, ''The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. * 23 April – World Book Night. *28 April – ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. *1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. * 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in the U. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2012 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012. Events *January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death. * January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from ''The Satanic Verses'', which is banned in the country. *February – James Joyce's children's story ''The Cats of Copenhagen'' is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin. *March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years. *April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book ''Beijing Coma'' and calls C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1996 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996. Events *July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's ''Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community." *July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. *October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play ''The Vagina Monologues''. *''unknown dates'' **In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for '' A Spell of Winter''. **Peter O'Donnell publishes ''Cobra Trap'', a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965. **Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, ''Lost Laysen'', is published, 80 years after it was written. **Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ''Romance Writings'', including her nov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |