- Carli Banks
Carli Banks (born November 16, 1985) is an American adult model. Banks was born and raised in Iowa and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is pursuing her modelling and acting career. She was featured in "Penthouse" magazine in July 2005 and appeared on the cover of the February 2006 issue of Hustler. She has also frequently appeared on episodes from Welivetogether.com and ChasinGirls.com. - James Short
James Short (June 10, 1710 - June 15, 1768) was a British mathematician, optician and telescope maker. Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally educated for the church, Short attracted the attention of Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the university, who around 1732 gave him permission to use his rooms in the college buildings for experiments in the construction of telescopes. In Short's first telescopes the specula were made of glass, as suggested by James Gregory, … - Richard Of Cirencester
Richard of Cirencester (c. 1335 - c. 1401), historical writer, was a member of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster, and his name (Circestre) first appears on the chamberlain's list of the monks of that foundation drawn up in the year 1355. In 1391 he obtained a licence from the abbot to go to Rome and in this the abbot gave his testimony to Richard's perfect and sincere observance of religion for upwards of thirty years. In 1400 Richard was in the infirmary of the abbey, … - Geoffrey Ashe
Geoffrey Ashe (born 1923) is a British cultural historian, a writer of non-fiction books and a few novels. - Larry The Love Speculum
- Jeffrey Milarsky
Jeffrey Milarsky is one of the leading conductors of contemporary music in New York City. In the United States and abroad, he has premiered and recorded works of many contemporary composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Lasse Thoresen, Gerard Grisey, Jonathan Dawe, Tristan Murail, Ralph Shapey, Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky, and Wolfgang Rihm. His wide-ranging repertoire, which spans Bach to Xenakis, … - Jean de Muris
Jean de Muris (1290-1351) was a French philosopher and mathematician, best known for his promotion of ars nova over ars antiqua. Jury is out whether or not he actually wrote the "Speculum musicae". That voluminous work covers the entire range of musical knowledge of the time. It defends "Ars Antique" and attacks the "Ars Nova". Some say his authorship is unlikely, claiming that he was friends with Philippe de Vitry. - Larry Thomas Bell
Larry Thomas Bell has been recognized by The Chicago Tribune as "a major talent," composer Larry Bell has been awarded the Rome Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from the American Music Center, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and Meet the Composer. He has been a resident composer at Bennington College, the Woodstock/Fringe Festival, … - John Clark
John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer. As one of only a handful of horn players proficient in non-classical genres, Clark has performed or recorded with a wide variety of musicians. These include Glen Velez, Jerome Harris, Anthony Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, B. B. King, Oliver Lake, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Sting, Lew Soloff, David Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Akiko Yano, Leroy Jenkins, Gerry Mulligan, Isaac Hayes, Mike Richmond, Howard Johnson, Carla Bley, … - Elizabeth Panzer
Elizabeth Panzer is a harpist active in jazz and free improvisation. Panzer received a degree from The Manhattan School of Music and is principal harpist with Bridgeport Symphony. She has played with new music ensembles including "Speculum Musicae", "North/South Consonance", and the "New Music Consort", with jazz groups such as the ensembles of [[Reggie Workman and of Butch Morris, and with her own trio, "Talking Harp". - Jacob Of Liège
Jacob of Liège, also known as Jacobus Leodiensis or Jacques de Liège, is believed to have written the "Speculum Musicae", The Mirror of Music, during the second quarter of the 14th century. This, the largest surviving medieval work on music, was previously attributed to Jean de Muris. It now seems likely that it was written by someone with the name Jacobus, who was probably born in the diocese of Liège, … - Frida Magnusson
- Cátia Rodrigues
- Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 - May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg. He studied at Basel, took the degree of doctor of law in 1489, and for some time held a professorship of jurisprudence there. Returning to Strasbourg, he was made syndic of the town, remaining there for the rest of his life. He first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Latin poetry, … - Laurens Janszoon Coster
Laurens Janszoon Coster (b. ca. 1370, Haarlem, the Netherlands - d. ca. 1440), or Laurens Jansz Koster, was one of the early European printers. He was an important citizen of Haarlem and held the position of sexton ("Koster") of Sint-Bavokerk. He is mentioned in contemporary documents as an assessor (scabinus), and as the city treasurer. He probably perished in the plague that visited Haarlem in 1439-1440; his widow is mentioned in the latter year. - Nigel de Longchamps
Nigel de Longchamps was an English poet of the twelfth century, writing in Latin. He is known to have been a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1186 to 1193, and perhaps earlier if his claim to have met Thomas à Becket is to be believed. He died c. 1200. He is the author of the "Speculum stultorum". Other Latin poems from a thirteenth-century manuscript are attributed to him. - Sean
Originally raised in California, I now reside in Charlotte, N. carolina, once a former musician now a writer with a dream to leave my mark in the world, i've had a taste for the macabre ever since i can remember. I love horror movies and novels. - Zane
Mark these words, one day this chalk outline will circle this city. - Clare Doherty
I'm just up for a good time... Love music and clubbing and really into techno, tech-house, electro, minimal and anything thats filthy, trashy, twisted or just a bit wonky and strange. Spend most of my weekends in Sankeys but when I get chance I love going to different club nights and to the weird after parties that follow! x. - Greg
Semper Fi. - Adrian Martinez
Aol Instant Messanger : lllonilll. - Benji Radach
Stickup Man Smacked Down by Customers Tuesday, November 02, 2004 FOX NEWS An alleged restaurant holdup man found tougher customers than he'd bargained for, according to police in Vancouver, Wash. Russell R. Rogers, 64, walked into Elmer's Restaurant (search) in the Portland, Ore., suburb at about 2 p.m. Oct. 24, brandishing a gun and demanding money, customers and staffers told the Longview, Wash., Daily News. - Pablo Lopez
- Joel Murray
ok i'ma put this up here so i don't have to repeat myself anymore. if i seem short tempered, or just not as concearned about you as usual, my bad i'm going through some family shit right now. uh... other than that for all the ppl that try to add me, prolly not gonna happen unless you send me some extremely convincing message. oh and also can you people SHUT THE FUCK UP about TOP FRIENDS i made it as small as possible because i can't take you people's drama. - Rachele Henderson
I am a fun loving girl from the toon who loves to party!! Im into clubbing big stylee and spend every weekend doing so, you would either find me at wax on and shindig when in the toon, but have just mooved to my fave city LEEDS, which i love as the clubs are amazing and never shut and you can carry on until the early hours of monday morning! - Greg Stauffer
- Rusty Kaulback
- Tristan
Get Code. - Deirdre Gribbin
Deirdre Gribbin is a composer from Northern Ireland. She studied at Queen's University Belfast where, at the age of twenty, she began to compose. Further studies were in London and in Denmark (the latter with Per Nørgård). Her first professional success came in 1991, when her piano piece "Per Speculum in Aenigmate" won the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Composition Prize. - Vincent Of Beauvais
The Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (Vincentius Bellovacensis) ("ca" 1190 - 1264?) wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was used in the Middle Ages. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown and not much detail has surfaced concerning his career. Conjectures place him first in the house of the Dominicans at Paris between 1215 and 1220, … - Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende. He was born at Puimisson, near Béziers, of a noble family of Languedoc. He studied law at Bologna, with Bernardus of Parma, and by about 1264 was teaching Canon law with success at Modena. - John Gower
John Gower was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works, the "Mirroir de l'Omme", "Vox Clamantis", and "Confessio Amantis", three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common political and moral themes. - William Fergusson
Sir William Fergusson (1808-1877), Scottish surgeon, the son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian, on March 20 1808. After receiving his early education at Lochmaben and the Royal High School of Edinburgh, he entered the University of Edinburgh with the view of studying law, but soon afterwards abandoned his intention and became a pupil of the anatomist Robert Knox whose demonstrator he was appointed at the age of twenty. - Gerard de Jode
Gerard de Jode (1509 - 1591) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp during the 16th century. He was born in Nijmegen and died in Antwerp. In 1547 he was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke, and began his work as a publisher/printseller. He often printed the works of other cartographers including Gastaldi's map of the world in 1555, Jacob van Deventer's map of Brabant in 1558, Ortelius' eight sheet map of the world in 1564, … - John Norden
John Norden (1548- 1625) was an English topographer, He was the first Englishman who designed a complete series of county histories and geographies. His earliest known work of importance was the "Speculum Britanniae", first part Middlesex (1593); the MS. of this in the British Museum (Harl. 570) has corrections in Lord Burleigh's handwriting. In 1595 he wrote a "Chorographical Description" of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Wight, … - Edwin Sandys
Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 - October 1629) was a British statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown. In addition to seeking profits for the company's investors, history records that his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge English territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, … - Brother Leo
Brother Leo (d. c. 1270), the favourite disciple, secretary and confessor of St Francis of Assisi. The dates of his birth and of his becoming a Franciscan are not known; but he was one of the small group of most trusted companions of, the saint during his last years. After Francis's death Leo took a leading part in the opposition to Elias: he it was who broke in pieces the marble box which Elias had set up for offertories for the completion of the basilica at Assisi. - Henry Bate Of Malines
Henry Bate of Malines was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, astronomer, astrologer, poet and musician. He was Master of Arts of the University of Paris before 1274. He was a pupil of Thomas Aquinas, he became a canon and cantor of the Cathedral of Saint-Lambert, Liège before 1289. As astronomer, he made astrolabes, and wrote "Magistralis compositio astrolabii", dedicated to his friend William of Moerbeke. - César-Egasse du Boulay
César-Egasse du Boulay, known as Bulaeus, was a French historian. After teaching humanities in the College of Navarre he occupied important positions in the University of Paris, especially those of rector and historian of the university. His main work is the "Historia Universitatis Parisiensis" covering the period from the supposed foundation of the university by Charlemagne (800) to 1600. - William Of Nassyngton
William of Nassyngton is believed to be the author of the middle English poem, "Speculum Vitae" written in the mid to late 14th century.
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