History with Descriptions - A through Z

[Carnal_Flower]

Anaïs Nin born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals (which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death), novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica.

Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977— though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. It includes many "Taboo" subjects. Nin wrote erotica for cash along with Henry Miller and some other mostly male writers, and constantly complained that their work was pornographic, a caricature, and crude. She grew so fed up with being told to "lose the poetry" that she stopped writing it. Today, her erotica is considered classic literature, while Miller's and others is mostly forgotten.

 

[JKendallDane]

C. William O'Neill

A highly respected Ohio politician for more than thirty years, O'Neill first served as a state representative and as Speaker of the House. He was then elected the State Attorney General in 1950, being the youngest person ever elected to the office at age 34.

In 1957 he was elected to the governorship and served one term. He served on the Ohio Supreme Court beginning in 1960, serving first as an associate justice, then eight years as Chief Justice.

O'Neill is reportedly the only person nationally to have ever served in the top leadership positions in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of a state government.

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[Hard_Rom]

Parisi

The Parisi were apparently a tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single brief reference by Ptolemy in his Geographica of about AD 150. Many writers have connected them with the archaeological Arras culture and some with the more securely-known Parisii of Gaul.

Burials in East Yorkshire dating from the pre-Roman Iron Age are distinguished as those of the Arras Culture, and show differences from surrounding areas, generally lacking grave goods, but chariot burials and burials with swords are known. But are similar (chariot burials) to those ascribed to the La Tène culture of areas of western and central Europe, giving a potential link to the similarly named Parisii of Gaul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisi_(Yorkshire)