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.
In 1828, Irving wrote âThe Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,â which sounds like a biography but is mostly fiction. It says that Europeans learned from Columbusâs trips to the New World that the planet was round. Letronne insisted that early Christian writers thought the Earth was flat. Though they did not, he was widely quoted for many years. Others, too, helped perpetuate the myth.