short story — short story, adj. a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words. [1885 90] * * * Brief fictional prose narrative. It usually presents a single significant episode or scene involving a limited number of characters. The form encourages… … Universalium
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia
A Short film about killing — (Krótki film o zabijaniu, 1988) The extended theatrical version of the fifth part of Krzysztof Kieslowski s acclaimed television series Decalogue (1988). The film tells the story of a young drifter, Jacek Lazar (Mirosław Baka), who commits the … Guide to cinema
Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… … History of philosophy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 film) — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Directed by Otis Turner (unconfirmed) Produced by William N. Selig Written by George F. Fish Luella Forepaugh Starring … Wikipedia
Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt — Irving v Penguin and Lipstadt Court High Court of Justice (Queen s Bench Division) Full case name Irving v Penguin Books Limited, Deborah E. Lipstadt … Wikipedia
Formation and evolution of the Solar System — Artist s conception of a protoplanetary disk The formation and evolution of the Solar System is estimated to have begun 4.568 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud … Wikipedia
Agriculture and Food Supplies — ▪ 2007 Introduction Bird flu reached Europe and Africa, and concerns over BSE continued to disrupt trade in beef. An international vault for seeds was under construction on an Arctic island. Stocks of important food fish species were reported… … Universalium
Widows and orphans — A widowed line: the last line of a paragraph, all alone on the other side of a page break. At the end of the first paragraph, the word lorem is an orphan in the second sense: a very short final line that, because the rest of its line is white,… … Wikipedia
History of primitive and non-Western trumpets — The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the… … Wikipedia
