"Philip Jose Farmer - Riverworld 5 - Gods of Riverworld" - читать интересную книгу автора (Farmer Phillip Jose)

became a renegade and involved various Terrestrial resurrectees in his plot to overthrow the other Ethicals and
their Agents and to subvert the original plan for the destiny of those reborn in Riverworld.
Richard Francis Burton: An Englishman, born in 1821, died in 1890. During his lifetime a cause celebre and
bete noire. A famous explorer, linguist, anthropologist, translator, poet, author, and swordsman. He discovered
Lake Tanganyika; entered the Muslim sacred city of Mecca in disguise


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(and from the experience wrote the best book ever written about Mecca); did the most famous translation of A
Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), full of footnotes and e'ssays derived from his vast knowledge
of the esoterics of African and Oriental life; was noted as one of the greatest swordsmen of his day; and was the
first European to enter the forbidden city of Harar, Ethiopia тАФ and leave alive.
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves: Born in England in 1852, died there in 1934. Daughter of Henry George
Liddell, domestic chaplain to the Prince Consort, vice-chancellor of Oxford University, dean of Christ
Church,'Oxford, and co-editor of the famous Scott-Liddell A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still today the
standard Classical Greek-English dictionary. When ten years old, Alice inspired Lewis Carroll to write his
Alice in Wonderland and to base his fictional Alice on her.
Peter Jairus Frigate: An American science fiction writer, born 1918, died 1983.
AphraBehn: An Englishwoman, born 1640, died 1689. She was a spy for Charles II in the Netherlands, and
later a famousтАФor infamousтАФnovelist, poetess, and playwright. The first English woman to support herself
solely by writing.
Nured-Din el-Musafir: Born in Moorish Spain in 1164, died in Baghdad 1258. A Muslim, though not
orthodox, and a Sufi, a member of that mystical yet realistic discipline to which Omar Khayyam belonged.
Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelln, Baron de Marbot: Born 1782 in France, died there in 1854. Like Nur, small
in stature but very strong and swift. He served very bravely under Napoleon and was wounded many times. His
Memoirs of His
Life and Campaigns so fascinated A. Conan Doyle that he modeled his stories of Brigadier Gerard, the dashing
French soldier, on de Marbot's exploits.
Tom Million Turpin: Black American born in 1871 in Savannah, Georgia; died in 1922 in St. Louis. Turpin
was a piano player and composer of considerable talent; his Harlem Rag, published in 1897, was the first
published ragtime piece by a black composer. He was also the boss of the Tenderloin red-light district in St.
Louis.
Li Po: Born in 710 of Turkish-Chinese lineage in an outlying district of ancient China; died in 762 in China.
Considered by many to be China's greatest poet, he was also a famous swordsman, drunkard, lover, and
wanderer. In The Magic Labyrinth, his pseudonym was Tai-Peng.
Star Spoon: A female contemporary of Li Po, who suffered much both in China and on the Riverworld.
The Earthbred and their fates are Yours
In all their stations, Their multitudinous languages and many colors
Are Yours, and we whom from the many You made different, O Master of the Choice.
тАФANCIENT EGYPTIAN HYMN
And hell is more than half of paradise.
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тАФEDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, "LUKE HAVEKGAL"
When Moses struck the rock, he forgot to stand out of the way of the water and so barely escaped drowning.
тАФTHE BOOK OF JASHAR




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