"Mack the Knife" (, first released in by by Harald Paulsen) or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.
The term sociological imagination was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his highly influential book of the same name published in 1959. Mills was concerned with two opposing paths that the discipline of sociology was taking to study society – the individual and the systemic.
William H. Bonney, known as Billy the Kid, was the youngest and most famous example of a gun-fighter from the American West. His legend survived and grew long after his death. On Novem, Henry McCarty was born in New York City but moved to Kansas with his family when he was very young.
Essential reading as long as this Anglo-American oligarchy directs American politics, the "Unauthorised Biography" is a vivid X-ray of the presidential dynasty, and the private forces dominating both major political parties.
Alexander the Great (356 BC – 323 BC) was perhaps the greatest military commander of all time. During one decade, he conquered all of the known world leaving one of the world’s most extensive empires.
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British Biography author famous for her autobiography Wild Swans. She was born in , and in she relocated to Britain. The novel has been wide purchases with a sale of over 10 million copies all over the world but is banned in mainland China.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In the Wright brothers achieved one of the first flights with a powered, sustained and controlled airplane;.
Learn about the life and achievements of Constantine, the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity and a key figure in the spread of the religion. Discover his military victories, political reforms, religious views and legacy.
The Romans were a powerful force during ancient times, evolving into an empire that spread to much of present-day Europe as well as parts of Africa and the Middle East. They brought their culture and rules of law to the areas they conquered, and left their mark through construction.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁtʁɑ̃ aʁistid]; born 15 July ) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. As a priest, he taught liberation theology and, as a president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole culture, including Vodou religion, in.
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