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Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica and while growing up in the ghettoes of Trench Town created and invented the word- Reggae and with my brethrens such as Junior Braithwaite, and Garth Dennis gave the name -Wailing Wailers to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Bob then formed his group of singers and musicians ....[more]
Business & Economics, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering
Noam Avram Chomsky was born December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish int....[more]
Family & Relationships, Fiction
Anthony, a novelist and historian, avoids the social and the polemic in his novels; his work is a skillful recreation of the rural experiences of his youth in a style that avoids the excesses of political commitment and of avant-gardism. The Year in San Fernando (1965) is an ironic, first-person narrative of a twelve-y....[more]
History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Nature
History, Social Science
Both a historian and a writer, German Arciniegas was born in Bogota, Colombia, the son of a Colombian father and a Cuban mother. A skilled observer of society, he has written about Latin American history and culture in numerous books, essays, biographies, and articles in magazines and newspapers throughout the Americas....[more]
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