![]() New Testament boy names becoming more popular include Silas, Jude, Titus, and Luke. Old Testament names are the only Biblical names that Jewish parents consider, whereas Christian names for boys can come from both the Old Testament and New Testament, which includes Jesus Christ. More and more baby boys are being given such Old Testament names as Abraham, Moses, Micah, Jonah, and Abel, going far beyond Biblical boy names like Adam, Zachary, and Samuel which were among the first Old Testament boy names to be revived. Old Testament names for boys once considered too antiquated for the modern world have become more popular in recent years. These and many other Bible boys' names have been so widely used over so much time that many people may forget their biblical antecedents. ![]() Boys' names from the Bible that have ranked highly in the US since the 19th century include John, James, Joseph, and Thomas. Unique biblical boy names gaining visibility - in the UK and Australia as well as the US - include Felix, Cyrus, Ezra, and Thaddeus.įaith and religion have always been important components of why parents choose Bible names for their sons. ![]() Along with Noah and Jacob, other Bible baby boy names in the US Top 25 include James, Benjamin, Elijah, Lucas, Ethan, Samuel, David, and Asher. ![]()
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Washington and Jolie provide the film with its artistic strength and make ‘The Bone Collector’ an engaging watch despite its lack of critical acclaim in 1999. ![]() It stars Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-homicide detective who is now paralyzed from the waist down, and Angelina Jolie as Police Officer Amelia Donaghy, who team up to find and apprehend a serial killer terrorizing New York City in 1999’s “The Bone Collector.” The film, directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on a novel of the same name by American mystery/crime author Jeffery Deaver. ![]() ![]() If you enjoyed The Bone Collector, you should see these 10 films. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, door-knocking is viewed with suspicion, and tragically, occasionally met with violence. Now, I treasure the openness, curiosity, and sincerity of both those visitors and my dad. The visit lasted close to an hour, and soon became a regular occurrence anytime Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked. 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Indeed the internal compass that enables female robins to migrate in the winter relies on a curious capability that wouldn’t sound out of place in an X-Men line-up: magnetoreception. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published at the height of the crisis, and concerning itself with the monumental challenge of bringing just one person home, the novel writes contested economic discourses into cultural fable. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 2008 financial collapse in the US led to millions losing their homes and posed a serious challenge to the legitimacy of mainstream economic principles. This essay examines the diverse political-economic registers of Andy Weir’s The Martian (2011) in terms of its symbolic response to the material and ideological crises of the Great Recession. Thomas Strychacz The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir’s The Martian Abstract. Bodies That Remember: Historical Revision and Embodied Age in Joan Slonczewski’s Children Star and Brain Plague “Then Came Pantropy”: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-Animal Relationships in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear’s Biological Fiction The Antipatriarchal Male Monster as Limited (Anti) Hero in Richard K. Urban Decay and Sexual Outlaws in the Blade Runner Universe False Gods and Libertarians: Artificial Intelligence and Community in Amad `Abd al-Salām al-Baqqāli’s The Blue Flood and Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Utopia, Inc.: A Manifesto for the Cyborg Corporation The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir’s The Martian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Focused on offbeat characters caught up in extraordinary situations, Okojie's imaginative short fiction collection includes stories of sea goddesses, celebrity impersonators, and time-traveling monks. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of her own books is “Zagreb: A Cultural History” (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is a winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation in 1999. Studirala je engleski jezik i knjievnost na Filolokom fakultetu u Beogradu, kao Fulbrightova stipendistkinja magistrirala je na Southern Illionois University, a potom i studirala na Case Western Reserve University. For many years she was a senior lecturer in Serbian and Croatian in the University College, London. Biografija Daa Drndi Daa Drndi roena je u Zagrebu 1946. “Belladonna” is also published in the US by New Directions (October 2017).Ĭelia Hawkesworth is a translator and researcher of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian literatures. Only in her sixties did her books become recognised outside the Balkan countries, and she is now translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch and English. She is the author of the critically acclaimed “Trieste”, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (now the Man Booker International) in 2013. Drndić captures the pain and tragedy of love and loss, with the author’s lyricism matched by that of the translation by Celia Hawkesworth.”ĭasa Dmdic (born in 1946) is a distinguished Croatian novelist and playwright. ![]() Peter Frankopan, EBRD Literature Prize judge: “A disturbing and moving account of the blending of memories, dashed hopes and sadness as a man struggles to make sense of his life – and the world changing around him. ![]() |