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Kristján Þorvaldsson
Kristján Þorvaldsson (4 May 1962 – 6 August 2023) was an Icelandic editor and journalist. Early life Kristján Þorvaldsson was born in Fáskrúðsfjörður. He was the youngest of four siblings, the son of Þorvaldur Jónsson and Oddný Aðalbjörg Jónsdóttir. He grew up in Fáskrúðsfjörður until he moved to Reykjavík to study at Menntaskólinn við Sund. Career Þorvaldsson worked in the media for most of his career, mostly in print media. He started his career at Alþýðublaðið and worked there for several years. He worked for a while at Morgunblaðið and Vikan (magazine), Vikan and later was editor of Pressan (newspaper), Pressan for a while as well as Mannlíf (magazine), Mannlíf. He worked for a while as a radio host on Rás 2 and for several years hosted the radio show ''Sunnudagskaffi''. In 1996 he was one of the founders of the magazine ''Séð og heyrt'', and was its editor for ten years. Personal life and death Þorvaldsson was the father of actor Þo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and 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. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
