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    John E. Stith (born 1947 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American science fiction and mystery author, known for the scientific rigor he brings to adventure...
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    John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor...
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  • 1941)), American physicist John Stith (fl. 1656–1691), Virginia colonist, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses John E. Stith (b. 1947), American science...
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  • John Stith (fl. 1631–1694) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the progenitor of the Stith family, one of the first families of Virginia...
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    excerpt of her novel on the CompuServe Literary Forum, where author John E. Stith introduced her to literary agent Perry Knowlton. Knowlton represented...
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  • novel by John Dos Passos "Manhattan Transfer", 1984 episode of Right to Reply Manhattan Transfer, a 1993 science fiction novel by John E. Stith Manhattan...
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  • Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the...
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    Stine (1928–1997) (also known as Lee Correy) S. M. Stirling (born 1953) John E. Stith (born 1947) Giampietro Stocco (born 1961) Manning Lee Stokes (1911–1976)...
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  • Doubleday Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion William Morrow and Company John E. Stith Redshift Rendezvous Ace Books Jane Yolen White Jenna Tor Books 1992...
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    writers. Early discoveries of hers include Michael P. Kube-McDowell, John E. Stith and Richard Paul Russo. In a notice published in her first issue, she...
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  • Leonard Peikoff (born 1933), philosopher and heir to Ayn Rand estate John E. Stith (born 1947), science-fiction and mystery author, has lived here since...
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  • where Stith Hall was named for him. Stith was the son of Captain John Stith and Mary Randolph, a daughter of William Randolph (1650– 1711). Stith's grandfather...
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    able to find new writers to work with, including Brad Linaweaver and John E. Stith, both of whom sold their first stories to Fantastic. The last year of...
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    (1974) hyperspace travel takes longer than in regular space, and in John E. Stith's Redshift Rendezvous (1990), the twist is that the relativistic effects...
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  • men have become sterile. Rick also chats with science fiction writers John E. Stith (Redshift Rendezvous), Sean Stewart (Passion Play), Vernor Vinge (Marooned...
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  • The John Stith Pemberton statue is a public statue in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Located in Pemberton Place, near the World of Coca-Cola, the statue...
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  • alien crew members: first mate Preedex "Preed" Yoa, surly weapons officer Stith, and eccentric astronomer Gune. Cale's map leads the crew of the Valkyrie...
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    314]". Thompson, Stith (1977). The Folktale. University of California Press. p. 61. ISBN 0-520-03537-2 Although folktale scholar Stith Thompson considered...
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  • David Michael Stith is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who released his first album Heavy Ghost in 2009 on the Asthmatic Kitty label. He...
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  • His work is influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen R. Donaldson, John E. Stith, Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin...
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    Pocahontas (redirect from Mrs John Rolfe)
    wheel so herself, naked as she was, all the fort over". Historian William Stith claimed that "her real name, it seems, was originally Matoax, which the...
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    Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore). In the Stith Thompson Motif Index it is F661.3, described as "Skillful marksman shoots...
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  • was translated into English, revised, and expanded by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1928, 1961), and later further revised and expanded by German...
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    The king asleep in mountain (D 1960.2 in Stith Thompson's motif index system) is a prominent folklore trope found in many folktales and legends. Thompson...
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  • Michelle Stith, née Henderson, also known as Chel Stith, was in 2005 President. A of the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles. She has since moved on to...
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    Buckner Stith Morris (August 19, 1800 – December 16, 1879) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1838–1839) for the Whig Party. Morris married Evelina...
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    Others of this type are Father Roquelaure and The Raven. Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson catalogued about 500 tales under this type, of which over 200 were...
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    The E-Meter (also electropsychometer and Hubbard Electrometer) is an electronic device used in Scientology that allegedly "registers emotional reactions"...
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    members were Stith Thompson and J. Frank Dobie, who both began teaching English at the university in 1914. In 1915, at Lomax's recommendation, Stith Thompson...
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    Aarne and Stith Thompson. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 328, 330, 331. ISBN 978-951-41-0963-8. Thompson, Stith. The Folktale...
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