Year nav topic5 1940 paleontology science Year in paleontology header 1940 Dinosaurs Newly named dinosaurs Data coutersy of George Olshevky s dinosaur genera list. ref name ddinogeorge cite web last Olshevsky first George title Dinogeorge s Dinosaur Genera List url http www.polychora.com dinolist.html accessdate 2008 08 07 ref class wikitable sortable align center width 100 Name Status colspan 2 Authors class unsortable Notes class unsortable Images Caenagnathus ref Sternberg, R.M. 1940. A toothless bird from the Cretaceous of Alberta. J. Paleontol. 14 pp. 81 85. ref Valid taxon style border right 0px valign middle C. M. Sternberg style border left 0px valign middle rowspan 35 Image Chirostenotes BW.jpg thumb center 200px Caenagnathus Plesiosaurs New taxa border 0 style background transparent style width 100 width 90 width 5 width 5 style border 0px valign top class wikitable sortable align center width 100 Name Status colspan 2 Authors Notes Seeleysaurus Valid style border right 0px valign top White style border left 0px valign top Seeleyosaurus Valid style border right 0px valign top White style border left 0px valign top Tremamesacleis Valid style border right 0px valign top White style border left 0px valign top style border 0px valign top style border 0px valign top border 0 style height 100 align right style background transparent style height 1px Image Anhanguera.jpg thumb center 100px Anhanguera . style height 30px Synapsids Non mammalian class wikitable sortable align center width 100 Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location width 33 class unsortable Notes class unsortable Images Aelurosauroides Valid 19xx in paleontology 19xx Flag rowspan 99 File Abydosaurus.jpg thumb 150px center Abydosaurus Aelurosauropsis Valid Bienotherium Valid Dicynodontoides Valid Leontocephalus Valid Nanictocephalus Valid Prorubidgea Valid References portal Paleontology references Category 1940s in paleontology Category 1940 Paleontology Category 1940 in science Paleontology ... more details
The Concordat of 1940 was an agreement between Portugual and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church . The concordat was signed in Vatican City on 7 May 1940. Because it was concluded with the government of the Estado Novo Portugal Portuguese Second Republic , a dictatorship under Ant nio de Oliveira Salazar , its ratification, as shown by the concordat s last article, was a foregone conclusion. Salazar s regime had 28 May 1926 coup d tat overthrown the democratic Portuguese First Republic First Republic , which on 20 April 1911 had enacted the Law of Separation of the Catholic Church from the Portuguese state. Salazar, however, restored much of the power of the Church, cn date November 2011 which was reflected in the concordat. It gives the Church exclusive control over religious instruction in the public schools. Only Catholic clergy could serve as chaplains in the armed forces. Divorce, which had been legalized by the First Republic, was again made illegal for those married in a Catholic church. The Church was given formal juridical personality, enabling it to incorporate and hold property, and it was permitted to operate in accordance with its own Canon Law Catholic Church Canon Law . For its part, the state retains, in Article 10, the right to a political veto of prospective bishops. Regal control over ecclesiastical appointments was part of the Padroado Real , that is, the exclusive royal prerogative granted by the Pope to the Portuguese crown to evangelize in the Far East and elsewhere. ref http www.riccimac.org ccc eng ccc53 historyandculture article2.htm C sar Guill n Nu ez, Tom s Pereira, S. J., and the Eclipse of the Portuguese Padroado , Chinese Cross Currents ... 13, 1940, Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Saeculo Exeunte Octavo , which appealed to Portuguese ... showtopic.php?org id 1361&kb header id 38751 Text of the 1940 Concordat and the 1975 Protocol on marriage en icon ref Notes References Reflist Category Treaties concluded in 1940 Category ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2012 Year nav topic 1940 music Events July 20 Billboard magazine publishes ... of charts available for 1940. class wikitable style font size 95 big big big Artist big big Title big Year Country Chart Entries 1 Glenn Miller In the Mood 1940 flagicon US Europe 1 of the 1940s, US BB 2 of 1940, POP 2 of 1940, RYM 4 of 1939, Scrobulate 4 of swing, RIAA 11, UK 13 Jan 1976, Holland 15 Aug 1972, Party 45 of 1999, Acclaimed 477 2 Artie Shaw Frenesi 1940 flagicon US US 1940s 1 Aug 1940, US 1 for 13 weeks Dec 1940, US BB 6 of 1940, POP 6 of 1940, Scrobulate 48 of swing, Europe 71 of the 1940s 3 Bing Crosby Only Forever 1940 flagicon US US 1940s 1 Sep 1940, US 1 for 9 weeks Oct 1940, US BB 15 of 1940, POP 15 of 1940, Europe 24 of the 1940s, RYM 87 of 1940 4 Tommy Dorsey I ll Never Smile Again 1940 flagicon US US 1940s 1 Jul 1940, US 1 for 12 weeks Jul 1940, US BB 8 of 1940, POP 8 of 1940, Europe 17 of the 1940s 5 Cliff Edwards Cliff Edwards Ukelele Ike When You Wish Upon a Star 1940 flagicon US Oscar in 1940, AFI 7, RYM 20 of 1940, RIAA 55, Acclaimed 1090 Top hit records File Artie Shaw Playing.jpg right thumb Clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw in 1940 A Nightingale ... Billy Murray singer Billy Murray With Harry s Tavern Band Imagination 1940 song Imagination Glenn ... Sheehy Because of You 1940 song Because Of You w. Arthur Hammerstein m. Dudley Wilkinson Beneath ... 1940 movie Pinocchio Good For Nothin Joe Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom Harlem Nocturne w. Dick Rogers ..., from the film Pinocchio 1940 movie Pinocchio High On A Windy Hill w.m. Joan Whitney Kramer Joan ... to by Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire in the film Broadway Melody of 1940 I Could Make You Care w. Sammy ... Nelson I m Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight w. Herb Magidson m. Allie Wrubel Imagination 1940 song ... Ned Washington & Leigh Harline, from the film Pinocchio 1940 movie Pinocchio Java Jive w. Milton Drake ... Noel Gay , Ian Grant & Frank Eyton Let There Be Love 1940 song Let There Be Love w. Ian Grant m. Lionel ... more details
Events from the year 1940 in Argentina Incumbents President of Argentina President Roberto Mar a Ortiz UCR A Concordancia Vicepresident Ram n Castillo Events January February Intervention of the Catamarca Province March Intervention of the Buenos Aires province April May June President Ortiz takes leave from work because of diabetes July August Construction of the first airplane made in Argentina, a curtiss 75 Ortiz, during his leave from work, offers his resignation to the Congress amid a political controversy. The Congress does not accept it. September October November The Congress discusses a proposal for economic reactivation made by minister Federico Pinedo December Juan Tonazzi is appointed minister of War. He rearranges the top military personnel, promoting supporters of Agust n Pedro Justo Date unknown Radio El Mundo starts the radio drama Los P rez Garc a , which would last up to 1969 Ongoing Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II , amid foreign pressure to join the war Births Adolfo Castelo Alicia Dujovne Ortiz Amelita Baltar Cacho Esp ndola Carlos Bielicki Carlos Heller Chunchuna Villafa e Dora Baret Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Mignogna Ermindo Onega Esteban Courtalon Esther Norma Arrostito Graciela Paraskevaidis Guillermo Jos Garlatti Guillermo Saucedo Gustavo Bergalli Horacio Usandizaga Jes s Taboada Jorge Ginarte Jorge Kissling Jos Rubinstein Juan Carlos Maccarone Juan Paletta Juan Rosai Leonardo Henrichsen Luis Brandoni Luis Cubilla Maria Teresa Luengo Mario Acu a Mar a Cristina Laurenz Miguel ngel Loayza Nacha Guevara Nestor Combin Osvaldo Lamborghini Osvaldo lvarez Guerrero Ra l Zaffaroni Roberto Matosas Rodolfo Mederos Rom n Quinos Silvio Marzolini W lter Machado da Silva Deaths Enrique Mosconi Manuel Musto Bibliography cite book title 1940 1949 ... Clar n location Buenos Aires isbn 978 987 070874 2 Years in Argentina DEFAULTSORT 1940 In Argentina Category 1940 in Argentina ... more details
Merge Plymouth automobile date February 2010 Infobox Automobile name Plymouth Deluxe Special Deluxe manufacturer Plymouth automobile Plymouth parent company Chrysler Chrysler Corporation aka production 1940 1941 assembly predecessor 1937 Plymouth successor Plymouth Deluxe br Plymouth Special Deluxe class Full size body style 2 door sedan car sedan br 4 door sedan car sedan br 2 door club coupe br 2 door convertible br 4 door station wagon layout platform engine 3.3 L Straight 6 I6 84 bhp transmission 3 speed manual wheelbase length width height weight related designer classicprw auto stub Category Plymouth vehicles 1940 ... more details
infobox football tournament season title Tschammerpokal year 1940 other title image imagesize caption country flagicon GER Germany num teams 64 final stage defending champions 1. FC Nuremberg FC Nuremberg champions Dresdner SC runner up FC Nuremberg matches 65 final stage goals top goal scorer player prevseason Tschammerpokal 1939 1939 nextseason Tschammerpokal 1941 1941 The 1940 DFB Pokal Tschammerpokal was the 6th season of the competition. In the final which was held on 1 December 1940 in the Olympic Stadium Berlin Dresdner SC defeated 1. FC Nuremberg FC Nuremberg 2 1 after extra time . ref cite web title DFB Pokal 1939 40 publisher fussballdaten.de accessdate 2008 10 14 date 2008 url http www.fussballdaten.de dfb 1940 language German ref It was the first final which was not decided in regular time. 1st round width 100 cellspacing 1 width 25 width 10 width 25 August 18, 1940 style font size 90 align right SpVgg F rth align center 3 0 VfB Stuttgart style font size 90 align right FC Bayern Munich align center 0 1 Wiener SC style font size 90 align right 1. SV Jena align center 0 1 TuRa Leipzig style font size 90 align right VfB K nigsberg align center 3 2 SC Preu en Danzig Extra time AET style font size 90 align right BuEV Danzig align center 6 2 Luftwaffen SV Stettin style font size 90 align right Blau Wei 90 Berlin align center 1 2 SV Werder Bremen style font size 90 align right Hallescher FV Sportfreunde align center 0 7 FC Schalke 04 style font size 90 align right SV 08 Steinach align center 4 2 CSC 03 Kassel style font size 90 align right SV Dessau 05 align center 2 2 ... 1, 1940 team1 1. FC Nuremberg score 1 &ndash 2 br small Extra Time a.e.t. small team2 Dresdner ... de icon DFB Cup 1940 41 in European football UEFA Category DFB Pokal 1940 Category 1940 in association football Tschammerpokal, 1940 Category 1940 in Germany Tschammerpokal, 1940 de Tschammerpokal 1940 it Coppa di Germania 1940 ... more details
Incomplete date February 2012 This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1939 . Events The Walt Disney Company has expanded to include more than 1,600 employees ref Bendazzi, p. 66 ref Deaths Anglo Swiss artist Jean Var born Maurice Hayward, 1939 ref Bendazzi, p. 77 ref January 4 American Academy Award nominee and film producer Charles Mintz July 2 German filmmaker Guido Seeber September 28 American animator Earl Hurd Films released Barudda fuggito Barudda Has Escaped created by Gino Parenti ref Bendazzi, p. 79 ref Il vecchio lupo di mare norvegese e il vecchio lupo di mare americano The Old Salt from Norway and the Old Salt from America by Roman painter Luigi Giobbe 1907 1945 Musical Poster Number One , directed by Len Lye January 22 Andy Panda Goes Fishing April 20 A Rainy Day April 22 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda September 23 Crazy House cartoon Crazy House , featuring Andy Panda November 25 Knock Knock 1940 film Knock Knock , featuring Andy Panda Television series Empty section date April 2012 Notes reflist 2 References cite book last Bendazzi first Giannalberto title Cartoons One hundred years of cinema animation publisher Indiana University Press year 1994 isbn 0 253 20937 4 others Translated by Anna Taraboletti Segre Years of animation Category 1940 Animation Category 1940s in animation Category History of animation ... more details
See also 1939 in France , 1940 other events of 1940 , 1941 in France . Events from the year 1940 in France . Events 21 March douard Daladier resigns as Prime Minister. French cabinet shuffles and Daladier is replaced by Paul Reynaud . 10 May Battle of France begins German forces invade Low Countries . 13 May German armies open 60 mile wide breach in Maginot Line at Sedan, France Sedan . 18 May Marshal Philippe P tain named vice premier of France. 19 May General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander in chief of all French forces. 20 May German forces, under General Erwin Rommel , reach the English Channel . 26 May Dunkirk evacuation of British Expeditionary Force World War II British Expeditionary Force starts. 3 June Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time. 4 June Dunkirk evacuation ends British forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops. 10 June Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. 10 June French government flees to Tours . 12 June 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery en Caux . 13 June Paris is declared an open city . 14 June French government flees to Bordeaux . 14 June Paris falls under German occupation and German troops march down the Arc d Triumphh , following the exact same route that the victorious french troops coming home from the First World war, 22 years previously. 15 June Verdun falls to German forces. 17 June Philippe P tain becomes Prime Minister of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms. 17 June Operation Ariel begins Allies of World War II Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany s takeover of Paris and most of the nation. 17 June Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks British ship RMS Lancastria , that was evacuating troops from near Saint ... b. 1874 in France 1874 . References Reflist Category 1940 in France Category Years of the 20th century in France fr 1940 en France ... more details
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Year in Germany 1940 Events in the year 1940 in Germany . Incumbents National level Head of State Adolf Hitler the F hrer Nazi Party Chancellor of Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler Nazi Party Events 4 January WWII Axis powers Luftwaffe General Hermann G ring assumes control of most war industries in Germany. 10 January WWII Mechelen Incident A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium , leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries . 16 February WWII Altmark Incident The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom British destroyer HMS Cossack Cossack pursues the German tanker Altmark into J ssingfjord in southwestern Norway . 18 March WWII Axis powers Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom . 31 March WWII Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis hilfskreuzer Atlantis , leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war. 622 days without in port replenishment or repair ref cite book author Muggenthaler, August Karl title German Raiders of World War II publisher Prentice Hall year 1977 ISBN 978 0 13 354027 7 page 14 ref 9 April WWII Germany carries out Operation Weser bung , and invades Denmark and Norway . German forces land in several Norwegian ports and take Oslo The Norwegian Campaign lasts two months. The Allied campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced. 9 April German invasion of Norway German heavy cruiser German cruiser Bl cher Bl cher is sunk Battle of Dr bak Sound ... of Poland 1939 1945 occupied Poland near the town of O wi cim . Between May 1940 and January ... Keitel signs the Aufbau Ost 1940 Aufbau Ost directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet ... in Germany 1874 References reflist Germany year nav Europe topic 1940 in DEFAULTSORT 1940 In Germany Category 1940 in Germany Category Years of the 20th century in Germany he 1940 ... more details
Year in baseball top this year 1940 Champions Major League Baseball 1940 World Series World Series Cincinnati Reds over Detroit Tigers 4 3 Major League Baseball All Star Game All Star Game , July 9 at Sportsman s Park National League, 4 0 Other champions Negro League Baseball All Star Game East, 11 0 Awards and honors File Hank Greenberg 1937 cropped.jpg thumb 180px Hank Greenberg , Hall of Famer and 2 time MVP MLB Most Valuable Player Award Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg AL OF, Detroit Tigers Frank McCormick NL 1B, Cincinnati Reds The Sporting News Player of the Year Award Bob Feller P, Cleveland Indians The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award Hank Greenberg AL OF, Detroit Tigers Frank McCormick NL 1B, Cincinnati Reds The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award Bill McKechnie Cincinnati Reds Statistical leaders class wikitable colspan 2 American League colspan 2 National League Batting Average AVG Joe DiMaggio NYY .352 Debs Garms PIT .355 Home Run HR Hank Greenberg DET 41 Johnny Mize STL 43 RBI Hank Greenberg DET 159 Johnny Mize STL 137 Win baseball Wins Bob Feller CLE 27 Bucky Walters CIN 22 Earned run average ERA Bob Feller CLE 2.61 Bucky Walters CIN 2.48 Strikeout Ks Bob Feller CLE 261 Kirby Higbe PHI 137 Major league baseball final standings American League final standings cellpadding 10 align left style vertical align top cellpadding 1 width 350px style font size 90 border 1px solid gray align center style font size larger colspan 6 American League style background lightblue Rank Club Wins Losses Win GB align center style vertical align middle style background ... League , 4 0, in the 1940 Major League Baseball All Star Game All Star Game at Sportsman s Park ... 1, in Game 7 of the 1940 World Series World Series to win their second World Championship , four games ... upon retirement batted .343 and .369 for 1897 98 Boston champions Year in baseball this year 1940 DEFAULTSORT 1940 In Baseball ja 1940 ... more details
Image Stanley Cup no background.png thumb 180px The Stanley Cup The Curse of 1940 , also called Dutton s Curse , was a superstitious explanation for why the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League NHL did not win the league s championship trophy, the Stanley Cup , from 1940 to 1994. Popular theories The Rangers began play in the nhly 1926 season and won a division title in their first season of existence and a Stanley Cup against the Montreal Maroons in their second. They would win two more Cups in nhly 1932 and nhly 1939 , defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs both times. During the nhly 1939 season, the mortgage on the Rangers home arena, Madison Square Garden 1925 the third Madison Square Garden built in 1925 , was paid off. Hence, the management of the Madison Square Garden Corporation symbolically burned the mortgage in the bowl of the Cup. This led some hockey fans to believe that the Cup, which is regarded almost as a sacred object, had been desecrated, leading the hockey gods to place a curse on the Rangers. ref name msg mortgage cite book first Dan last Diamond first2 James last2 Duplacey coauthors Eric Zweig year 2001 title Hockey Stories On And Off The Ice publisher Andrews McMeel location Kansas City isbn 0 7407 1903 3 ref Another theory is that the supposed curse came from Red Dutton , the coach and general manager of the New York Americans , for whom he had once ... the Cup. The Curse of 1940 worked in several ways, some of them odd. The Madison Square Garden Corporation ... taunted the Rangers by chanting 1940 ref cite journal last Murphy first Austin date June 13 ... of a Curse of 1940 began to take hold, with Red Dutton s death in 1987 and the occasional ... teams collected Stanley Cup s since 1940 the Canadiens 20 times, including 1993 Stanley Cup Finals ... 493950 ref Devils fans had picked up the 1940 chant and the curse myth from Islander fans, and curiously ... DEFAULTSORT Curse Of 1940 Category New York Rangers seasons Category Sports related curses Category ... more details
of Allies of World War II Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little ... Diary 1940 ref March 25 The United States Government grants permission to American aircraft manufacturer ... chronology of aviation in hawaii 1940 1949 Aviation Hawaii 1940 1949 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii ... Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary Campaign Diary The Battle of France May June 1940 ... Royal Navy Regia Marina begin the Siege of Malta 1940 Siege of Malta , starting with repeated ... 1940 ref August 12 23 &ndash The German Air Force Luftwaffe conducts Operation Eagle Attack Adlerangriff ... 13 &ndash A Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Hudson 1940 Canberra air disaster crashes near Canberra ... men aboard each plane 1940 Brocklesby mid air collision collide in mid air over Brocklesby, New ... weapons. December 31 During 1940, German night fighters defending Germany have shot down ... more details
Slavic literature refers to the literature in any of the Slavic languages Belarusian literature Bosnian literature Bulgarian literature Croatian literature Czech literature Kashubian literature Macedonian literature Polish literature Russian literature Serbian literature Slovak literature Slovene literature Ukrainian literature See also Slavic studies Old Church Slavonic language Category European literature ... more details
History of literature2 This is a list of literature , categorized by country , language , or cultural group . Abkhaz literature Albanian literature American literature see also African American literature Native American literature Southern literature Deaf American literature Arabic literature Argentine literature Armenian literature Australian literature Austrian literature Azerbaijani literature Babylonian literature and science Basque literature Belarus literature Belgian literature Bengali literature Bohemian literature Brazilian literature Breton literature British literature Bulgarian literatureLiterature of Burma Burmese Literature Canadian literature Catalan literature Chechen literature Chinese literature Cornish literature Croatian literature Cuban literature Cypriot literature Czech literature Danish literature Dutch literature Ecuadorian literature Egyptian literature English literature see also Anglo Norman literature Anglo Saxon literature Welsh literature in English Anglo Welsh literature Esperanto literature Estonian literature Ethiopian literature Finnish literature Flemish Literature Flemish literature Francophone literature French literature Frisian literature Galician literature Georgian literature German literature Greek literature Hebrew literature Hindi literatureLiterature of Hong Kong Hungarian literature Icelandic literature Ilokano literature Indian literature Irish literature Israeli literature Italian literature Japanese literature J rriais literature Kannada literature Kashmiri literature Kazakhstani literature Kurdish literature Korean literature Latin literature Latvian literature Lithuanian literature Luxemburger literature Macedonian literature Malayalam literature Maltese literature Manx literature Marathi literature Mexican literature Moldovan literature Montenegrin literature Moroccan literature Nepali literature New Zealand literature Nigerian literature Norwegian literature Occitan literature Ossetian literature Pakistani literature ... more details
Year nav topic5 1875 literature poetry The year 1875 in literature involved some significant new books. Events Image Poe Grave at Westminster 1.jpg right thumb Edgar Allan Poe s reburial and new monument, October 1, 1875. October 1 American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later ... on Russia and the Baltic States died 1945 in literature 1945 April 1 Edgar Wallace , English thriller writer died 1932 in literature 1932 April 9 Jacques Futrelle , American author, RMS Titanic RMS Titanic victim died 1912 in literature 1912 April 18 Oskar Ernst Bernhardt Abdruschin , German author died 1941 in literature 1941 June 6 Thomas Mann , German novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature Nobe Prize laureate died 1955 in literature 1955 July 26 Antonio Machado , Spanish poet died 1939 in literature 1939 August 21 Winnifred Eaton , Canadian author died 1954 in literature 1954 September 1 Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan novelis died 1950 in literature 1950 August 26 John Buchan , novelist and diplomat died 1940 in literature1940 December 4 Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet died 1926 in literature 1926 Deaths January 23 Charles Kingsley , English novelist born 1819 in literature 1819 March 1 Tristan Corbi re , French poet born 1845 in literature 1845 June 2 J zef Kremer , Polish messianistic philosopher born 1806 in literature 1806 June 4 Eduard M rike , German poet born 1804 in literature 1804 June 18 Ant nio Feliciano de Castilho , Portuguese poet and author born 1800 in literature 1800 August 4 Hans Christian Andersen , author of fairy tales born 1805 in literature 1805 August 12 J nos Kardos , evangelical priest, teacher and writer born 1801 in literature 1801 October 10 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian poet, novelist and dramatist born 1817 in literature 1817 October 24 Jacques Paul Migne , French priest, theologian, and publisher born 1800 in literature ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 History of literature2 European literature refers to the literature of Europe . European literature includes literature in many languages among the most important of the modern written works are those in English literature English , Spanish literature Spanish , French literature French , Dutch literature Dutch , Polish literature Polish , German literature German , Italian literature Italian , Modern Greek literature Modern Greek , Czech literature Czech and Russian literature Russian and works by the Scandinavian literature Scandinavians and Irish literature Irish . Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Latin literature Latin , Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek , Medieval Bulgarian literature Old Bulgarian , Old Norse literature Old Norse , Medieval French literature Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance. In colloquial speech, European literature often is used as a synonym for Western literature . European literature is a part of world literature . European literature in the Classical period Ancient Greek literature Main Ancient Greek literature Latin Literature Main Latin literature European literature in the Romance languages Catalan literature Main Catalan literature French literature Main French Literature Main Belgian literature Belgian literature in French Main Swiss literature French branch Italian literature Main Italian literature Portuguese literature Main Portuguese literature Romanian literature Main Romanian literature Spanish literature Main Spanish literatureLiterature in other Romance languages Main Aragonese literature Main Arpitan language Literature Main Galician language literature Main Western Lombard literature Main Occitan literature Main Anglo Norman literature Main J rriais literature Main Walloon language Literature European literature in the Germanic languages Anglic literature Main English literature Main Scots literature Dutch literature Main Dutch literature ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Year nav topic5 1894 literature poetry The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books. Events Robert Frost sells his first poem, My Butterfly , to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars. Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw. Lafcadio Hearn begins working as a journalist for the English language Kobe Chronicle . Claude Debussy writes his Pr lude l apr s midi d un faune , a free interpretation of St phane Mallarm s 1876 poem, L apr s midi d un faune . Mary Antin emigrates from Belarus to the USA with her family. New books Gabriele D Annunzio The Triumph of Death Novel The Triumph of Death Richard Doddridge Blackmore Perlycross Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Christmas Hirelings Walter Browne 2894 novel 2894 Hall Caine The Madhi or Love and Race, A Drama in Story The Manxman novel The Manxman Kate Chopin Bayou Folk Ella Hepworth Dixon The Story of a Modern Woman Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes George ... 1 Aurora Nilsson , writer died 1972 in literature 1972 March 17 Paul Green playwright Paul Green , novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright died 1981 in literature 1981 July 9 Phelps Putnam , poet died 1948 in literature 1948 July 26 Aldous Huxley , poet died 1963 in literature 1963 October 9 Agnes von Krusenstjerna , writer died 1940 in literature1940 October 14 E. E. Cummings , United States American poet died 1962 in literature 1962 October 26 Eugene Jolas , writer, literary translator and critic died 1952 in literature 1952 Deaths February 8 Robert Michael Ballantyne R.M. Ballantyne , author born 1825 in literature 1825 April 8 Bankim Chatterjee , novelist born 1838 in literature 1838 July 30 Walter Horatio Pater , author born 1839 in literature 1839 October 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes , writer born 1809 in literature 1809 December 3 Robert Louis Stevenson , author born 1850 in literature 1850 Awards DEFAULTSORT 1894 In Literature Category 1894 books ... more details
, and Stefanie Zweig . Russian language Jewish literature Isaak Babel 1894 1940 was a USSR ...Jewish Literature refers to works written by Jews on Jewish themes, literary works of various themes ... Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature and rabbinic literature . Medieval Jewish literature includes not only rabbinic literature but also musar literature ethical literature , Jewish philosophy philosophical literature , Kabbalah mystical literature , various other forms of prose including ... ref The production of Jewish literature has flowered with the modern emergence of secular Jewish culture . Modern Jewish literature has included Yiddish literature , Ladino language History Ladino literature , Hebrew literature especially Israeli literature , and Jewish American literature . Medieval Jewish literature Fiction Prominent examples of medieval Jewish fiction included Sefer ha Ma asiyyot ... , author of a poem about Simchat Torah in forty couplets. ref Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period KTAV, 1975 , p. 51ff. ref Other medieval Jewish literature Medieval Jewish literature also includes Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophy before Maimonides Jewish philosophical literature Kabbalah Primary Texts Primary Texts mystical Kabbalistic literature Musar literature Medieval Musar literature musar literature , ethical literature dealing with virtues and vices Halakhic literature Jewish commentaries on the Bible Commentaries Commentaries on the Bible Modern Jewish literature Modern Jews continued to write standard forms of rabbinic literature Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophical literature , Kabbalah mystical Kabbalistic literature , Musar literature musar ethical literature , halakhic literature, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible Commentaries ... as modern Jewish literature, discussed here. Modern Jewish literature emerged with the Hebrew literature of the Haskalah and broke with religious traditions about literature. Therefore, it can be distinguished ... more details
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Unreferenced date February 2007 Nepalese literature is the literature of Nepal . This is distinct from Nepali literature , which is the literature in Nepali language Khas kura . The major literary languages of Nepal are Sanskrit mostly in the past, no significant recent developments Nepali literature Nepali the national language Nepal Bhasa literature Nepal Bhasa Maithili language Maithili Bhojpuri English language English Asian topic literature DEFAULTSORT Nepalese Literature Category Nepalese art Literature Category Asian literatureLiterature stub Nepal stub ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2009 Culture of Guatemala Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there was likely literature in Guatemala before the arrival of the Spanish, all the texts that exist today were written after their arrival. Literature in Mayan languages The Popol Vuh is the most significant work of Guatemalan literature in the Quich language, and one of the most important of Pre Columbian American literature. It is a compendium of Mayan stories and legends, aimed to preserve Mayan traditions. The first known version of this text dates from the 16th century and is written in Quich transcribed in Latin characters. It was translated into Spanish by the Dominican priest Francisco .... During the 18th century, Guatemalan literature was influenced by French neoclassicism, as is seen ... . Guatemalan literature after independence the nineteenth century Guatemala gained independence .... The literature during this period is marked by political strife, which dominated the essay and treatise ... de Irisarri During the 19th century Guatemalan literature began to develop independently from Spanish literature, though it continued to incorporate European influences. Important writers of this era ... the author of the poem Yo pienso en ti , one of the best known of Guatemalan literature. In the second half of the 19th century, the novel dominated Guatemalan literature, thanks especially to Jos Milla ... modernism in prose. Twentieth century In the 20th century, Guatemalan literature reached a level comparable ..., 20th century Guatemalan literature is strongly influenced by politics, as evidenced by the fact .... 20th century Guatemalan literature is usually divided by generation or decade The generation of 1910 or the Comet The generation of 1920 The generation of 1930 or Grupo Tepeus The generation of 1940 ... literature DEFAULTSORT Guatemalan Literature Category Guatemalan literature es Literatura de Guatemala ... more details
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