Artists Pay Tribute To Late David Bowie (15+ Pics) The world lost another star yesterday with the passing of David Robert Jones, also known as David Bowie. The 69-year-old died just two days after his birthday and the release of his latest album, Blackstar.
In A Nutshell. Pygmalion, written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw and first performed two years later, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (speech), who bets his friend that he can pass off a poor flower girl with a Cockney accent as a duchess by teaching her to speak with an upper class accent.
Shortly after Charles was executed, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588â1679), wrote Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings. The title of the book referred to a leviathan, a mythological, whale-like sea monster that devoured whole ships.