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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 to Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) and Anna Maria, née Pertl (1720–1778), at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg. Salzburg was the capital of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, an ecclesiastic principality in the Holy Roman Empire (today in Austria). He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. His elder sister …

Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise.The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore and executive produced by Moore and David Eick as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson.The pilot for the series first aired as a three-hour miniseries …

MLA Style Manual, previously titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States-based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2016 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...

Fiction and literature. Battle royale genre, a narrative genre of films, manga, anime and visual novels inspired by the 2000 film Battle Royale; Battle Royal High School, a manga series published from 1986 to 1989 "Battle Royal", a section of the 1952 novel Invisible Man, originally published on its own in 1947 "Battle Royal", a title in Sonic the Hedgehog comics, published in 1997

Robert James Sawyer CM OOnt (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 24 novels published and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and numerous anthologies. He has won many writing awards, including the best-novel Nebula Award (1995), the best-novel Hugo Award (2003), the John W. …

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind …

History. Modern history. Early Modern period; Late Modern period. 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; Contemporary history; Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century; Philosophy and sociology. Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies

Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and subsequent film Serenity who live on the fringes of civilized space and have become animalistic. Within most of the timeline of the series and movie, the existence of Reavers is officially denied by the Alliance, the ruling government of humanity in the Firefly franchise, but they are a harsh reality around …