Syrian gnostic, scientist, philosopher and poet (154-222)
Bardaisan, known in Arabic as Ibn Daisan [1] and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac or Parthian gnostic and founder of the Bardaisanites. A scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher and poet, Bardaisan was also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States of America from 2009 to 2017. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, he won the 2008 presidential election and was re-elected president in November 2012. A member of the U.S. Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Before becoming president, he represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 and served as United States senator from Illinois between January 4, 2005 and November 16, 2008. While president, he was the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.See also his books:
Dreams from My Father (1995)
The Audacity of Hope (2006)
A Promised Land (2020)
not enough? [explaining why he has brought the Arkenstone to Thranduil and Bard] I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. And suspicious
deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you
for the Spoils of Annwfn keenly he chanted and unto Doom shall continue in bard-orison. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we entered in: Save for seven none came
deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you
to behold the nations all on fire. Canto I, Stanza 55. A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain, On virtue
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983, taught at Bard as the Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature from 1990 until his
sad eyes; Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. Thomas Gray, The Bard (1757), I. 3. lines 39-40. Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody
An-My Lê (born 1960) is a Vietnamese-American photographer and professor at Bard College. An-My Lê: ‘Landscape is not a narrow category—it is a source of
