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Occupation (s) Author and podcaster. Website. yourfatfriend .com. Aubrey Gordon (born 1983), [ 1][ 2] also known as Your Fat Friend, is an author, podcaster, and activist. She writes about fatness, fat acceptance, and anti-fat bias, and her podcast, Maintenance Phase, focuses on the poor science behind health and wellness fads. [ 3]
The letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu, also known by its technical designation TCL 18 111, [1] is an Old Babylonian letter written by the student Iddin-Sin to his mother Zinu. It is thought to have been written in the city of Larsa in the 18th century BC, around the time of Hammurabi 's reign ( c. 1792–1750 BC).
Valediction. A valediction ( derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [ 1] or complimentary close in American English, [ 2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [ 3][ 4] or a speech made at a farewell. [ 3]
A "Dear Colleague" letter is an official correspondence which is sent by a Member, committee, or officer of the United States House of Representatives or United States Senate and which is distributed in bulk to other congressional offices. [ 1] A "Dear Colleague" letter may be circulated in paper form through internal mail, distributed on a ...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are a series of passionate and intellectual correspondences written in Latin during the 12th century. The authors, Peter Abelard, a prominent theologian, and his pupil, Heloise, a gifted young woman later renowned as an abbess, exchanged these letters following their ill-fated love affair and subsequent monastic lives.
Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Dickinson spent seven years at the Academy, taking classes in English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, "mental philosophy," and arithmetic. Daniel Taggart Fiske, the school's principal at the time, would later recall that Dickinson was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties". Although ...
Adeline Virginia Woolf ( / wʊlf /; [ 2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London.
Businessman. Kirk LeMoyne " Lem " Billings (April 15, 1916 – May 28, 1981) was an American businessman known for his close and long-time friendship with John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family. Billings was a prep school roommate of Kennedy, an usher at his wedding and a campaigner for his successful 1960 presidential bid.