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Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge

The moderator is a celebrity and in the past has usually been Al Roker.


A Year in the Province

He has since worked as an academic, publishing numerous historical titles, and since 1998 has been Reader in History at Queen's University, Belfast.

Alexander Kuo

His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is Reader in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

It was modelled after Jonathan Swift's satirical essays, and is intended to "teach" a reader the various methods for "teasing and mortifying" one's acquaintances.

Anne Bonny

The creator, Eiichiro Oda has confirmed that she is inspired by Anne Bonny in response to a question sent in by a reader.

Anthony McCann

He is the author of three collections of poetry, including Father of Noise, Moongarden, and I ♥ Your Fate. He is also the author of Gentle Reader!, a book of erasures of the English Romantics, written with fellow poets Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer.

Antoni Serra Serra

He was in the Convent of Saint Francis of Pauoa of Palma and was a Reader of philosophy and theology, Visitor, Mallorca's Order of Minims General and Provincial Vicar Inquisition Qualifier; Postulator in 1739 of the cause of beatification of Catherine Thomas.

Body thetan

The Church attempted to keep the case file checked out by a reader at all times, but the story was synopsised in the Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1985 and detailed in William Poundstone's Bigger Secrets (1986) from information presented in the Wollersheim case.

Casio Exilim

Adobe Acrobat Reader — to read the Camera User's Guide, which is a PDF.

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

With the support of a $500 grant from Reader's Digest, it opened on March 11, 1973 in the library of the former Jefferson Junior High School.

Chris Monroe

Her work has been published in Funny Times, Ripsaw, the Funny Pages, Zenith City Arts, Madcap, Twin Cities Reader, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Transistor and Ruminator.

Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard is a reader in the Film Studies Department and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Kent.

Delta Entertainment Corporation

Delta Entertainment Corporation released music under the labels of LaserLight Digital, Time-Life Music, Reader's Digest Music, Yamaha, Legend and Style, Capriccio and Delta.

Desktop alert

The client is either an opt-in software product, for example an RSS reader, or an Enterprise-Class software product in a local area network (LAN).

Eileen Favorite

Her poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry East, The Chicago Reader, Rhino, Midnight Mind and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ).

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Eugene Istomin

He was an avid reader and book collector and, eventually, attracted the interest of New York publishing magnate, William Jovanovich.

Francis Jones

Francis R. Jones, poetry translator and Reader in Translation Studies, Newcastle University

George R. Klare

It was during that period, he published, with Byron Buck, Know Your Reader: The Scientific Approach to Readability. This work introduced to the public the extensive research behind the popular readability formulas of the likes of Rudolf Flesch and Robert Gunning.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Hemant Joshi

Famous TV News Reader Manjari Joshi is his wife and he is the son in law of eminent Hindi Poet, Writer and Journalist Raghuvir Sahay.

James O. Goldsborough

He is author of numerous articles on foreign affairs for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Fortune, and the Reader's Digest.

Jay David

Jay David (author), author whose The Flying Saucer Reader inspired Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

Jim Kokoris

Kokoris has also contributed humour articles to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Reader's Digest, among other publications.

John Alexander Porteous

Returning to New Brunswick in 1974, he became known as a commentator for the CBC, published numerous articles and columns for such publications as The Globe and Mail, TV Guide and the Reader's Digest.

Julian Blaustein

He spent a year in flight training at the Randolph Air Force Base before heading to Hollywood, where he became a reader in the story department at Universal Pictures.

Landmark College

All students are required to purchase a Landmark-supported laptop, text-reader (Kurzweill 3000), speech-to-text (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), and other software is mandatory for all incoming students, regardless of psycho-educational evaluations and recommendations.

Linguatec

:The Voice Reader text-to-speech program reads in twelve languages: German, British English, American English, French, Quebec French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese.

Matija Antun Relković

Relković's prison years became his Lehrjahre, his educational period: a voracious but unsystematic reader, he studied many works by leading Enlightenment writers (Voltaire, Bayle, Diderot), as well as Polish poet Jan Kochanowski's didactic epic Satir- which became the model for his most famous work.

McClelland Barclay

His fashionable women for General Motors' "Body by Fisher" advertising campaign made his work recognizable to virtually every magazine reader in the United States.

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

N. Venkatachala

He served as a part-time reader in Mercantile Law from 1958 to 1970 and a legal adviser to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal from 1963 to 1973 and Bangalore University from 1970 to 1973.

Nayani Krishnakumari

1952, she moved to Osmania University Women’s College in Hyderabad, where she started out as lecturer, and became a reader and professor.

Nintendo e-Reader

Aside from the regular card packs, some regular series cards were distributed on a promotional basis through GameStop, EB Games, and Energizer batteries.

Robert Arthur, Jr.

Between 1930 and 1940, his stories were published in Amazing Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Black Mask, Collier's, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Double Detective, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Mystery, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, Startling Stories, Street & Smith Mystery Reader, Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Unknown Worlds and Wonder Stories.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

Robin Hood Morality Test

In the test, a situation is posed and the reader is asked to rank Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John and the Sheriff of Nottingham in terms of the morality of their actions in the scenario.

Steven Rinella

As a child, Rinella was an avid reader of historical narrative and tall tales about the American wilderness, especially the exploits of his hero, Daniel Boone.

Sucessos Inesquecíveis de Elis Regina

The choice of songs was based on recommendations by some 8,000 subscribers of the magazine "Seleções" (released by the Brazilian branch of Reader's Digest) and numerous musicians.

Synthetic personalisation

Mary Talbot (1995/2003) used the concept in her work on a synthetic sisterhood in teenage girls' magazines, analysing the linguistic devices (pronouns, presuppositions) constructing a simulated friendship between reader and producer.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

The Moon in the Cloud

The novel was adapted for the children's television series Jackanory in 1978, with Ian McKellen as the reader.

The Wasp Factory

Frank's father's deception of his son (one of Banks' central themes, which appears again in The Crow Road), and the propensity of people for deceiving themselves, are accentuated in the final chapters of the book when new facts force the reader to reassess completely the opinions formed about the narrator.

Thomas Billing

Writing to one Ledam, Billing says : 'I would ye should do well, because ye are a fellow of Gray's Inn, where I was fellow ' (Paston Letters, i. 43, 53), and, according to a Gray's Inn manuscript, he was a reader there.

Truth in Science

On October 11, 2006, a reader, Chris Preedy, wrote a letter to The Times newspaper highlighting "scientific errors" on the Truth in Science website, including that the organization denies the evolution of bacterial flagellum.

Van Gogh's family in his art

At the height of his career in Arles he made Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Memory of the Garden at Etten of his mother and sister and Novel Reader, which is thought to be of his sister, Wil.

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.

Yoginder Sikand

He was a Reader in Department of Islamic Studies at Hamdard University, New Delhi, and then Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.


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