• in World War I Joe Pass (1929–1994), American jazz musician John Pass (engraver) (c.1783–1832), English engraver John Pass (poet) (born 1947), British-born...
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  • John Pass (born 1947 in Sheffield, England) is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia...
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  • John Pass may refer to: John Pass (poet), Canadian poet John Pass (engraver), English engraver and murder victim This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    John Sinclair (October 2, 1941 – April 2, 2024) was an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is...
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    Very Reverend Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include Silverpoints, The Long Road and...
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    John Nommensen Duchac (born February 25, 1953), known professionally as John Doe, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player...
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    John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 – 22 June 1987) was perhaps the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish...
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    was dramatized by the Bulgarian poet and writer Ivan Vazov in his ode The Volunteers at Shipka. The victory at Shipka Pass ensured the fall of the Pleven...
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    John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods...
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    Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his...
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    England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred...
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  • John Munro MC (10 December 1889, Swordale, Isle of Lewis – 16 April 1918 Ploegsteert, Belgium), was a Scottish soldier and poet who won the Military Cross...
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    The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part...
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    John Trumbull (April 24, 1750 – May 11, 1831) was an American poet. Trumbull was born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational...
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    The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised...
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    the post of poet laureate to which a prominent poet residing in the respective state is appointed. The responsibilities of the state poets laureate are...
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    Grants Pass is a city in and the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on Interstate 5, northwest of Medford, along...
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  • Scott O'Hara (category People from Grants Pass, Oregon)
    and the cultural magazine Wilde. O'Hara was born John Robert Scott on October 16, 1961 in Grants Pass, Oregon, one of seven children of Robert Hogue Scott...
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    (1966). The poet postulates some underlying reasons for the unfolding chain of events, significantly from Dillinger's perspective. John Dillinger is...
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  • John Wedderburn (ca. 1505 – 1553) was a Scottish poet and theologian. The second son of James Wedderburn and Janet Barry, he was born in Dundee about...
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    the Armistice, an American poet takes his place in the front rank of the War Poet's parade." Wyeth's father, also named John Allan Wyeth (1845–1922), grew...
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    John Wood (January 2, 1947-May 4, 2022) was an American poet, historian of photography, scholar and critic. Wood is Professor Emeritus of English literature...
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    John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre...
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    Sandburg's People's Poet Award, 1982 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, 1985 Albert Schweitzer Music Award, 1993 Studio albums John Denver Sings (1966)...
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    24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This...
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    John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic...
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  • Nan Shepherd (category Scottish women poets)
    (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet, best known for her seminal mountain memoir, The Living Mountain, based on...
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    Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and conversationalist...
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  • Poet, Writer Surjit Patar Passes Away At 79 David John Pivec The Astounding Life of Auctioneering Legend David Redden Haider Akbar Khan Rono passes away...
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    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades...
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