Irony (from the Ancient Greek ', meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance) is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. Ironic statements (verbal irony) may convey a meaning exactly opposite from their literal meaning. A situation is often said to be ironic (situational irony) if the actions taken have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended. The discordance of verbal irony is created as a means of communication (as in art or rhetoric). Des...
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards and has been nominated for two Golden Globe Award as well as preliminary Academy Award nominee. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records Canada. Her worldwide debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, released in 1995, which remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highes...
Less is more may refer to:
*"Less is more", a phrase from the 1855 poem Andrea del Sarto (the faultless painter) by Robert Browning
**The phrase as adopted by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for minimalist design
Less Is More may also refer to:
* "Less Is More", a song by Joss Stone from Mind, Body & Soul
* "Less Is More", a song by Relient K from The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek
* "Less Is More", an album by Marillion
See also
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* Minimalist music
* Minimalism
* Simplicity
* More Is More
* Less (disambiguation)
* More (disambiguation)
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement ( Chto delat’?) is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in 1901 and published in 1902. Its title is inspired by the novel of the same name by the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin argues that Marxists should form a political party, or "...
La Cantatrice chauve est la première pièce de théâtre écrite par Eugène Ionesco. Mise en scène par Nicolas Bataille, la première eut lieu le 11 mai 1950 au théâtre des Noctambules. Elle fut publiée pour la première fois le 4 septembre 1952 par le Collège de 'Pataphysique.
Depuis 1957, La Cantatrice chauve est jouée au théâtre de la Huchette, devenant l'une des pièces comptant le plus de représentations en France.
La Cantatrice chauve a reçu un Molière d'honneur en 1989.
La genèse de la pièce
L'idée de la pièce est venue à Ionesco lorsqu'il a essayé d'apprendre l'anglais par le bi...
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label. It is also the oldest surviving established record company.
History
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft was founded in 1898 by German-born United States citizen Emile Berliner as the German branch of his Berliner Gramophone Company. Based in the city of Hannover (the founder's birthplace), the company had links with t...
ドイツ・グラモフォン (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft) は、1898年12月にドイツ・ハノーファーで創設された、世界でもっとも長い歴史を持つクラシック音楽のレコードレーベルである。「イエロー・レーベル」と呼ばれて親しまれ、これまでに数々の名演、名盤を生み出している。
歴史
創設者は、円盤レコードの発明者でもあるエミール・ベルリナーで、同年イギリスで興した英グラモフォンの子会社として彼の生まれ故郷で設立。SP盤時代にはカルーソーやシャリアピン、メルバといった20世紀前半の代表的な歌手を擁してレパートリーを広げた。
1941年、英グラモフォンの資本をシーメンス (Siemens & Halske)が取得してドイツ資本の会社となる。1962年、オランダのフィリップスの音楽部門と業務提携しDGG/PPIグループを形成。1971年に米コロムビア・英EMIなどの競合会社に対抗するため、シーメンス・フィリップス両者合弁のポリグラムを持ち株会社としてフィリップス・レコード（フォノグラム）とともに同社の傘下に入る。ポリグラムの1980年代の事業拡張の失敗によって苦境に陥るが、フィリップスがソニーとともに開発したコンパクトディスク (CD) の市場拡大とともに業績を回復する。ハノーファーのCD工場は当時世界最大で、その製品の高い品質でも評価された。
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Cathay is the Anglicized version of "Catai" and an alternative name for China in English. It originates from the word Khitan(, Qìdān), the name of a nomadic people who founded the Liao Dynasty which ruled much of Northern China from 907 to 1125, and who had a state of their own (Kara-Khitan Khanate) centered around today's Kyrgyzstan for another century thereafter.
Originally, "Catai" was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China; it obtained wide currency in Europe after the publication of Marco Polo's book (he referred to southern China as Manji)...
The phrase, "the Empire on which the sun never sets", has been used with variations to describe several global empires so large that there is always at least one part of their territory is in daylight.
It has been used mainly of the Spanish Empire in the 16th and 17th century and of the British Empire, mainly in the late 19th and early 20th century. In fact, there have been even a few other empires, for example France with its former colonies, of which it could have been used for the same reason, but has not be generally so used.
Georg Büchmann traces the idea to a speech in Herodotus' H...
I've seen many people make reference to LEGO as Legos. e.g. "I enjoy playing my Legos".
But from my understanding this is incorrect and should be referred to simply as LEGO (in capitals as per company standards) i.e. "I enjoy playing with LEGO".
There is no reference to the terms Legos on the o...
Why is it "your Majesty", but "my Lord"?
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