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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of...
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  • Waste Land (Portuguese: Lixo Extraordinário, lit. 'Extraordinary Garbage') is a 2010 British-Brazilian documentary film directed by Lucy Walker, co-directed...
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  • Wasteland (redirect from Waste land)
    wasteland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wasteland or waste land may refer to: Desert or barren area an uncultivated area of land, whether wooded or not...
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    by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, notably Murder in the Cathedral...
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    Fiona Shaw (category Honorary Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    played the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. She performed T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty...
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  • Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear...
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    Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A...
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  • Lloyd have called Paterson his response to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Pound's Cantos. The long gestation time of Paterson before its first book was...
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    Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items...
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    anaerobic land-fill conditions. In domestic waste collection, the scope of biodegradable waste may be narrowed to include only those degradable wastes capable...
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    is that on the other side of you? T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land  Lines 359 through 365 of T. S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land were inspired...
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    rhythm guitarist Ryan Waste as the only constant members. In addition to Foresta and Waste, their current lineup includes Philip "Land Phil" Hall on bass...
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    London Bridge (category Bridges in the City of London)
    and songs, including the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. The modern bridge is owned...
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    S(tearns) (1922). The Waste Land. New York: Horace Liveright. —— (1971). Eliot, Valerie (ed.). The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts...
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    Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land...
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  • A Perfect Day for Bananafish (category Works originally published in The New Yorker)
    [emphasis added] The stanza that contains the verse is from Section I of The Waste Land – "The Burial of the Dead": April is the cruelest month, breeding...
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    to Aphrodite. The hyacinth appears in the first section of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land during a conversation between the narrator and the "hyacinth girl"...
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    Industrial waste is the waste produced by industrial activity which includes any material that is rendered useless during a manufacturing process such...
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    Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes...
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  • Look to Windward (category The Culture)
    feature the Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans". The novel takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land: O...
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    Literary modernism (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." Eliot's own modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) mirrors "the futility and anarchy" in its...
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    Alan Paton (category Recipients of the Order of Ikhamanga)
    His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land. Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg...
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  • Consider Phlebas (category The Culture)
    the Culture. Consider Phlebas is Banks's first published science fiction novel, and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land....
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    Eliot's "The Waste Land" also evokes the common nightingale's song (and the myth of Philomela and Procne). Because of the violence associated with the myth...
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  • Eliot's The Waste Land, which appears at line 386 of "What the Thunder Said", part V of the poem: In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint...
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    Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment. Waste can be hazardous because it is toxic,...
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    Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (category History of mental health in the United Kingdom)
    cited as the inspiration for The Waste Land, which remains Eliot's most noted work. He consulted with Vivienne, refusing to release a section of the poem...
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    The Waste Land (Section III, The Fire Sermon) and in a note Eliot states that Tiresias is "the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest...
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    Green waste, also known as "biological waste", is any organic waste that can be composted. It is most usually composed of refuse from gardens such as...
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    land use, water use and loss of biodiversity. Prevention of food waste is the highest priority, and when prevention is not possible, the food waste hierarchy...
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