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    It has been consistently ranked as one of the most philanthropic companies in the U.S. Attempts to take the chain international have proved unsuccessful...
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    celebrated salt-water cure, Ruskin wrote his only work of fiction, the fable The King of the Golden River (not published until December 1850 (but imprinted...
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    Yann Martel (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    advance", The Globe and Mail, 6 April 2010. Woog, Adam. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence, The Seattle...
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  • [First fable. The Retama and the Rosemary]. Fábula segunda. Las abejas (1798) [Second fable. The Bees]. Fábula tercera. El vaquero [Third fable. The Cowboy]...
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    Robert Louis Stevenson (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    (2005). "Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Clockmaker" and "The Scientific Ape": Two Unpublished Fables". English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 48 (4):...
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    America 2014 Gods of All Ages 2013 All Creatures Great and Small 2012 Lore of the Ancient Americas 2011 This Sceptred Isle 2010 Fables of Fire and Flame...
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    Marcus Aurelius (category Augurs of the Roman Empire)
    example of his predecessors (Antoninus had enjoyed exercise in the palaestra, fishing, and comedy), going so far as to write up a fable about the gods'...
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    amiable public image, and his philanthropic efforts. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, he made his acting debut in the Canadian television series Hangin'...
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    Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (category Alumni of University College, Durham)
    as a pioneer of the Authentic school of masonic research, applying proper historical methodology in place of carelessly repeated fable. He earnestly...
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    Dolly Parton (category American people of Welsh descent)
    – Family, Faith and Fables (2024) Collaborative studio albums Just Between You and Me (with Porter Wagoner) (1968) Just the Two of Us (with Porter Wagoner)...
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  • Hugh Kingsmill (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    child of the three sons and one daughter of Sir Henry Simpson Lunn, founder of the travel agency Lunn Poly, and Mary Ethel, née Moore, daughter of a canon...
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  • Jeanne D'Orge (category Artists from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California)
    Museum. The exhibition displayed forty-seven of her paintings. In June 1948, D'Orge established the Carl Cherry Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organization...
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    200 copies of Tatian's Diatessaron he retired from the churches; and he erected churches and supplied them with relics. His philanthropic and economic...
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    battleground of Arthur to a site of sanctuary, comradery, and lawlessness. Rather than a philanthropic thief of the rich, Robin Hood's tales began in the 15th...
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  • City. He observes Mary Lou Barebone, the non-magical ("No-Maj" or "Muggle") head of the New Salem Philanthropic Society, preaching that witches and wizards...
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    Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
    charity. His philanthropic endeavours began in earnest in 1822, when he personally remitted the debts of all the poor in Bombay's civil jail. Some of Jejeebhoy's...
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  • one of the largest student-run philanthropic events in New Jersey, the Embrace Kids Foundation for children with cancer and blood disorders. The annual...
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    brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control...
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  • Allan Slaight (category Members of the Order of Canada)
    While at the University of Saskatchewan, Slaight worked as a columnist (A Sap's Fables) and jazz reviewer for the college newspaper, The Sheaf. Slaight...
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    But most of his philanthropic work is associated with his love of horses. Since 1990, he has been one of the most important supporters of the Hollywood...
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    Pedro Nolasco da Silva (category Knights of the Order of Christ (Portugal))
    the board of the Cement Company of Ilha Verde (1891) and founder of Farmácia Popular (1895). Nolasco da Silva was also involved in philanthropic associations...
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  • Deborah Cadbury (category Alumni of the University of Sussex)
    significance of this business heritage to INSEAD Business School, Birmingham and others.[citation needed] She is collaborating with Fable Films on a dramatization...
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  • humorist, Fables for the Frivolous Melville Henry Cane (1900), poet; winner of the Robert Frost Medal in 1971 Joyce Kilmer (1908), poet and author of Trees...
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    Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter contains Christian symbolism and allegory. The series has been viewed as a Christian moral fable in the psychomachia...
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    Rachel Carson (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    by Louis and Lois Darling, who also designed the cover. The final writing was the first chapter, A Fable for Tomorrow, which Carson intended as a gentle...
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    generations of music makers." 2005: MusiCares Person of the Year, for his artistic and philanthropic accomplishments 2007: Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame 2007:...
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  • named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in -ae, or -arum for two or more women. This...
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    that minimises the use of spoken language. The Jim Henson Foundation, founded by puppeteer and Muppet creator Jim Henson, is a philanthropic, charitable...
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    the text is rationality; Trimmer expresses the common fear of the power of fiction in her preface, explaining to her childish readers that her fable is...
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  • Harriet Shetler (category History of mental health in the United States)
    services across the United States. During the 1960s and early 1970s, she continued her volunteer philanthropic work and activism as a member of the Women's International...
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