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"William More was an Oxford college head in the 16th-century.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Michaelson-Morcombe More was born in Devon and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1538 and M.A. in 1541. He was appointed a Fellow of Exeter in 1537. More was Principal of Hart Hall from 1544 to 1545; and Rector of Exeter College from 1546 to 1553.Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 107–118 A priest, he held the living at Stoke Rivers. References Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Category:Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Category:Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford Category:16th-century English people Category:Principals of Hart Hall, Oxford Category:People from Devon "
"Winkler is a 2006 novel by English food critic Giles Coren. It is a ‘comic account of one man’s search for meaning, identity, and a suitable response to the burden of history’. My Failed Novel Winkler was the subject of a Sky Arts documentary entitled My Failed Novel which featured Jeffrey Archer, Hanif Kureishi and various other authors. The documentary was a broader meditation on the subject of failure but focused on the novel itself, which garnered a £30,000 advance yet only sold 771 copies in hardback and 1400 in paperback. In the documentary the genesis of the novel was considered by a range of people. A contemporary critic of the book, Stephen Bayley, said the novel had a certain ‘lavatorial awfulness’ and ‘an overwhelming obsession with bums.’ Bad Sex in Fiction Award The book won a 2005 Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the Literary Review. In the words of The Guardian, “Coren beat off heavyweight competition for the prize with an unpunctuated 138-word description of coitus, followed by the two-word sentence, ‘like Zorro’.” ShortList magazine named it ‘one of the absolute worst ‘Bad Sex Awards’ entries ever. Reception The Spectator wrote, ‘there is an infectious glee with which Coren pillories politically correct nostra and the scabrous humour and farce make him a worthy heir of Tom Sharpe’. A review by The Independent’s Michael Bywater was written with the byline, ‘Bright Spark dowsed in a swamp of disgust.’ Bywater describes the protagonist of Winkler as ‘too morally exhausted to attempt the construction of meaning for those around him. Winkler's default interaction is contempt or abuse, his disgust with the physical world - flopping flesh, sad food, corridor smells - boundless.’ He added, ‘wrapped inside Winkler's nihilism is a serious mediation on deeper matters: identity, wandering, return, and two questions which still cast the longest of shadows. What of the Holocaust, and what does it mean to be a Jew?’ The book was considered in a chapter of Ruth Gilbert’s textbook Writing Jewish: Contemporary British-Jewish Literature. References Category:2006 novels "
"Bolshevo railway station is a railway station in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Mytishchi-Fryazino section of the Yaroslavsky suburban railway line. It is part of the Naukograd, or science city, of Korolyov. History It takes its name from the historic settlement of Bolshevo. The station was opened 1896 as part of the Shchyolkovo-Mytishchi branch. A historic photograph of the station was featured in the 2019 exhibition Station Bolshevo: the crossroads of fate, 1939. Photos ED4M-0226 at the Bolshevo-2 station.jpgED4 train in Bolshevo railway station Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russia - panoramio (114).jpgBolshevo railway station in 2006 Underpass Station Bolshevo (Korolyov) 005.jpgUnderpass at Bolshevo railway station Реконструкция станции Болшево.jpegBuilding work in 2008 Bolshevo railway station (Korolyov) 002.jpgTicket machines References Category:Railway stations in Moscow Oblast Category:Railway stations in the Russian Empire opened in 1896 Category:Railway stations of Moscow Railway "