- The Accacha Chronicles
The Whisper Kid<br /> The Whisper Kids' favourite thing to do is to whisper all kinds of stuff in one's ear, and to tease the dragonflies.<;br /> The Whisper Kid is as well enchanting as funny, and is the walking proof that true love is around. <small>The Whisper Kid has a voice,<br /> soft like a sorbet of flashy coloured cherries,<br /> smooth like a horn of milky melted Belgian chocolates,<br /> vibrating like an endless spinning top.</small> - Queen Of Sheba
The Queen of Sheba,, referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the New Testament, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archaeology speculates was located in present-day Eritrea, Ethiopia or Yemen. Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda (possibly meaning "not this way/not thus") in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis. - Leon Hadar
Leon T. Hadar specializes in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. He is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times . - Richard John Neuhaus
Richard John Neuhaus (born May 21, 1936) is a prominent Canadian Catholic priest and writer in the United States. He is the founder and editor of the monthly journal "First Things" and the author of several books, including "The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America" (1984), "The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World" (1987), and "Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, … - Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is an American writer, president of the Rockford Institute, and editor of "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture", a leading paleoconservative political commentary periodical, published each month. He received his PhD. in the Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a specialty in ancient Greek lyric poetry. - Jesse Walker
Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970) is managing editor of "Reason Magazine". The University of Michigan alumnus has also written the book "Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America" (NYU Press, 2001) and maintains a blog called "The Perpetual Three-Dot Column". His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Washington Post", Salon, … - Raphael Holinshed
Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580) was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as "Holinshed's Chronicles", was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays. Raphael Holinshed, or Raphael Hollingshead, probably belonged to a Cheshire family. Relatively little is known about him. He is thought to have come from Cheshire, but lived in London, where he worked as a translator for the printer Reginald Wolfe. - Joab
Joab (יוֹאָב "The LORD is father", Standard Hebrew Yoʾav, Tiberian Hebrew Yôʾāḇ) was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruiah in the Bible. He was made the captain of David's army (2 Samuel 8:16; 20:23; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 18:15; 27:34). He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel. Asahel was killed by Abner, for which Joab took revenge by treacherously murdering Abner (2 Samuel 2:13-32; 3:27). - Bill Kauffman
Bill Kauffman (born November 15, 1959) is an American political writer generally aligned with the paleoconservative movement. He was born in Batavia, New York and currently resides in Elba, New York with his wife and daughter. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester, he went to work as an aide to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (which he would later describe as an "anarchist-making experience") in 1981. - R. J. Stove
Robert James Stove (born 1961) is an Australian writer, editor, composer, and organist. Born in Sydney, but currently resident in Melbourne, Stove is the author of two books: "Prince of Music" (a biography of the composer Palestrina) and "The Unsleeping Eye" (a brief history of secret police from the sixteenth century to the twentieth). He has also co-edited, with James Franklin, "Cricket Versus Republicanism", … - Enos
Enos or Enosh is a biblical name in the genealogies of Adam, and consequently referred to within the genealogies of Chronicles, and of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. He is the son of Seth, father of Kenan, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He supposedly lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. - Manasseh Of Judah
Manasseh of Judah was the king of Judah and only son and successor of Hezekiah. He was twelve years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 687 BC-642 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 687 BC-643 BC. Though he reigned so long, comparatively little is known of this king. He reversed the reforms of his father Hezekiah, reinstating pagan worship in the Jerusalem temple, … - Clyde N. Wilson
Clyde N. Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of history at the University of South Carolina, USA, a paleoconservative political commentator, a long-time contributing editor for "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture" and Southern Partisan magazine, and an occasional contributor to "National Review". Wilson is best known for his expertise on the life and writings of John C. Calhoun, having recently compiled all his papers in twenty-eight volumes. - Kevin Michael Grace
Kevin Michael Grace (born July 2, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and blogger. He was raised in Toronto, Sudbury and Vancouver. A college dropout, Grace worked at the University of British Columbia library for 12 years. In 1986, a chance introduction led to him becoming a talk radio producer at CJOR in Vancouver. He later produced shows for CJCA radio and CFRN television in Edmonton, KOGO radio in San Diego and for Canada's WIC Radio Network. - Richard Field
Richard Field was a publisher in Elizabethan London, known for his close association with William Shakespeare. Field was about two and a half years older than Shakespeare. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and lived on Bridge Street, close to the Shakespeares on Henley Street. His father was a tanner. It is often thought likely that Shakespeare and Field knew each other in Stratford, since they were similar in age and their fathers were in similar businesses. - William Murchison
William Murchison is a nationally syndicated political columnist in the United States with "The Dallas Morning News". Murchison is normally of a conservative political persuasion. He is also a regular contributor to "Chronicles". - Izzy Young
Israel Goodman Young or Izzy Young (born 26 March 1928) is a noted figure in the world of folk music, both in America and Sweden. He is the former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, and since 1973, he has owned and operated the Folklore Centrum store in Stockholm. In 1957, on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, he opened the Folklore Center, a store for books and records and everything related to folk music. - Derek Turner
Derek Turner (born 1964 in Dublin, Ireland) is a freelance journalist. He was the editor of the right wing British conservative magazine "Right Now!", until its demise in December 2006. He is now editor of "The Quarterly Review". Turner's writings have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for a wide range of journals, including "The Times", "Literary Review", "Salisbury Review", and "The Sunday Telegraph", … - Birthe Neumann
Birthe Neumann is a Danish actress. In 1972 she graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre, and was shortly afterwards employed as an actress at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. At the Royal Danish Theatre she has appeared in a number of productions, among them "Marx and Coca Cola", Molière's "The Learned Ladies", Henrik Hertz's "Sparekassen" ("The Savings Bank"), Jess Ørnsbo's "Majonæse" ("Mayonnaise"), … - David Kimhi
David Kimhi (Hebrew: דוד קמחי, also Kimchi or Qimchi, also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רד"ק), was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian. Born in Narbonne, Provence, he was the son of Rabbi Joseph Kimchi and the brother of Rabbi Moses Kimchi, both biblical commentators and grammarians. - Donald Livingston
Donald Livingston is an American philosophy professor based at Emory University with an expertise in the writings of David Hume. Livingston received his doctorate at Washington University in 1965. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and is on the editorial board of "Hume Studies" and "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture". - Gallus Anonymus
Gallus Anonymus (Polish: "Gall Anonim"; 11th-12th centuries) is considered to be the first author of Polish history by creating the work "Cronicae et gesta ducum sive principum Polonorum" (Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes or Princes of the Poles, ca. 1115). Gallus greatly influenced the subsequent course of Polish history, as his version of Poland's early history emphasized that the ruler's authority was inferior to that of God, … - Chronicle Of Fredegar
The "Chronicle of Fredegar" is a chronicle that recounts the events of Frankish Gaul from 584 to around 641. Later authors continued the history to the coronation of Charlemagne and his brother Carloman on 9 October 768. John Michael Wallace-Hadrill notes that this work "occupies a vital position in the history of Frankish Gaul ... first, because of the intrinsic importance of the information it contains; and secondly, … - Procopius Of Gaza
Procopius of Gaza (c. 465-528 AD) was a Christian sophist and rhetorician, one of the most important representatives of the famous school of his native place. Here he spent nearly the whole of his life teaching and writing, and took no part in the theological movements of his time. The little that is known of him is to be found in his letters and the encomium by his pupil and successor Choricius. He was the author of numerous rhetorical and theological works. - Theodore Pappas
Theodore N. "Ted" Pappas is the current executive editor of "Encyclopædia Britannica". Earlier he was managing editor of the paleoconservative magazine "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture". He has also written "Plagiarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Other Prominent Americans". - Richard Stanyhurst
Richard Stanyhurst (1547 - 1618), was an Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian, born in Dublin. His father, James Stanyhurst was recorder of the city, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1557, 1560 and 1568. Richard was sent in 1563 to University College, Oxford, and took his degree five years later. At Oxford he became intimate with Edmund Campion. After leaving the university he studied law at Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. - Charles Whistler
The Reverend Charles Watts Whistler MRCS, LSA, (November 14, 1856 - June 10, 1913) was a writer of historic fiction that plays between 600 and 1100 AD, usually based on early English/Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish Sagas and archeological discoveries. - Leopold Tyrmand
Leopold Tyrmand (1921-1985) was a Polish-Jewish novelist and editor. He rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1966. Once in the United States, Tyrmand regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He became the co-founder and vice-president of the Rockford Institute, … - John Of Wallingford
John of Wallingford, also known as John de Cella, (died 1214) was Abbot of St Albans Abbey in the English county of Hertfordshire from 1195 to his death in 1214. He was previously prior of Holy Trinity Priory at Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), a cell of St Albans. According to local tradition, he was a member of the Hyde family of South Denchworth in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He studied in Paris, and was considered a great grammarian, … - George Hamartolus
George Hamartolus (Greek) was a monk at Constantinople under Michael III (842-867) and the author of a chronicle of some importance. Hamartolus is not his name but the epithet he gives to himself in the title of his work: "A compendious chronicle from various chroniclers and interpreters, gathered together and arranged by George, a sinner ". It is a common form among Byzantine monks. - Macarius Of Jerusalem
Saint Macarius of Jerusalem was bishop of Jerusalem from 311/312 to shortly before 335, according to Sozomen. Athanasius, in one of his orations against Arian refers to Macarius as an example of "the honest and simple style of apostolical men." The date 312 for Macarius's accession to the episcopate is found in St. Jerome's version of Eusebius of Caesarea's "Chronicles"; Tillement. - Robert Lindsay Of Pitscottie
Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (also Lindesay or Lyndsay; c. 1532-1580) was a Scottish chronicler, author of "The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436-1565", the first history of Scotland to be written in Scots rather than Latin. Of the family of the Lindesays of the Byres, Robert was born at Pitscottie, in the parish of Ceres, Fife, which he held in lease at a later period. - Johannes de Thurocz
Johannes de Thurocz (c. 1435, Pýr (today part of Šipice, Slovakia) - 1488/1489), was a Slovak noble in the Kingdom of Hungary, and is the author of "Chronicle of the Hungarians" ("Chronica Hungarorum"), the most extensive 15th century work on Hungary, and the first chronicle on Hungary written by a layman. - Echo Star Helstrom
Echo Star Helstrom was Bob Dylan’s high-school girlfriend in Hibbing, Minnesota. She met Dylan (then Bob Zimmerman) in 11th grade, and they were romantically involved for about one year. Helstrom, a free-spirited blonde from a less-affluent section of town than the Zimmerman family, has been frequently cited as the inspiration for Dylan’s classic folk ballad "Girl from the North Country". - Peter Atte Wode
Peter Atte Wode (c. 1325 - bef 1382) was a Justice in Eyre for England south of the Trent from 1360-1367. He was probably born in Coulsdon in Surrey (now Greater London) according to Manning and Bray's "History of Surrey". The precise date of his birth is not known, but it is presumed to have been sometime before 1325. His father was Geoffrey Atte Wode (Abt 1297-1346), a Sergeant at Arms to Edward III and his mother was Anisia. - "spider" John Koerner
"Spider" John Koerner (born August 31, 1938 in Rochester, New York) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best-known as a guitarist and vocalist for the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, which included Dave "Snaker" Ray and Tony Glover. He has also made albums as a solo performer and with collaborator Willie Murphy. Koerner was an early influence on Bob Dylan and is mentioned in his autobiography "Chronicles". - Sevar Of Bulgaria
Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century. The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721-737. Other chronologies place his reign in 738-754, but cannot be reconciled with the testimony of the "Namelist". It is possible that his reign was peaceful, … - Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He became famous during the mid 1990s, after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994 and the thriller "Se7en" in 1995. Pitt has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe Award, both for his role in "Twelve Monkeys" (1996). - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The Martian Chronicles", a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451".
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