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"Swords of the Iron Legion is an adventure module published in 1988 for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Plot summary Swords of the Iron Legion is a collection of 11 miniscenarios set in the Forgotten Realms, some of which are for use with Battlesystem. Publication history I14 Swords of the Iron Legion was edited by Skip Williams, with a cover by Larry Elmore, and was published by TSR in 1988 as a 64-page book. Reception Reviews References 1988 books Dungeons & Dragons modules "
"Abu al-Khaṭṭāb ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd (),Stefan Sperl, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century AH/9th Century AD - 5th Century AH/11th Century AD), pg. 109. Part of the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. commonly known as Al-Akhfash al-Akbar () was an Arab grammarian who lived in Basra and associated with the method of Arabic grammar of its linguists, and was a client of the Qais tribe.Reinhard Weipert. al-Akhfash. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Eds. Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. Accessed 17 July 2013.Monique Bernards, "Pioneers of Arabic Language Studies." Taken from In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture, pg. 214. Ed. Bilal Orfali. Volume 63 of Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2011. His most notable students were: Sibawayh,Francis Joseph Steingass, The Assemblies of Al Harîri: The first twenty-six assemblies, pg. 498. Volume 3 of Oriental translation fund. Trns. Thomas Chenery. Williams and Norgate, 1867.M.G. Carter, Sibawayh, pg. 21. Part of the Makers of Islamic Civilization series. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004. Yunus ibn Habib,Ibn Khallikan, Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch, vol. 4, pg. 586. Trns. William McGuckin de Slane. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871. Abu ʿUbaidah, Abu Zayd al-Ansari and Al-Asma'i. Al-Akhfash revised his student Sibawayh's famous Kitab, the first book ever written on Arabic grammar, and was responsible for circulating the first manuscripts after his student's untimely death.Khalil I. Semaan, Linguistics in the Middle Ages: Phonetic Studies in Early Islam, pg. 39. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1968. Al-Akhfash was also one of the first linguists to contribute significantly to commentary and analysis of Arabic poetry. Additionally, he contributed to Arabic philology as well as lexicography, recording vocabulary and expressions of the Bedouin tribes which had not previously been recorded.Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, vol. 2, pg. 244. Trns. William McGuckin de Slane. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by Institut de France and Royal Library of Belgium. References 793 deaths Arab grammarians Medieval grammarians of Arabic Year of birth unknown 8th-century Arabs "
"Kristin Lisa Johannsen (Tomah, Wisconsin, October 15, 1957 – October 7, 2010), was an American author and educator. Background Born in Tomah, Wisconsin to Marilyn and Walter Johannsen, Kristin had one sister, Karen (now Karen Johannsen-Talsky). Johannsen earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978, traveled throughout Europe and returned to Madison to earn a master's degree in English nearly a decade later. After living in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia for twenty years, she made her home on VanWinkle Grove, in Berea, Kentucky with her husband Kevin Barbour Millham. She published three books, as well as numerous travel articles, magazine articles and internationally used textbooks. Writings With Al Fritsch, Johannsen was co-author of Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains, which won the 2004 Caudill Prize. The Caudill award is made by Bookworm and Silverfish in Rural Retreat, Virginia to recognize outstanding investigative writing about Appalachian issues similar to Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands. Johannsen was co-editor (with Bobbie Ann Mason and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall) of Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop, but it wasn't there. This collection of essays, fiction and poetry resulted from a trip in April 2005 by a group of Kentucky writers who saw first-hand the devastation from mountaintop removal mining. Read an excerpt of the book at windpub.com/dirtymoney.htm. The photographs by Geoff Oliver Bugbee, Warren Brunner and Ann Olson are stark and haunting. She was the author of Ginseng Dreams: the Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant (2006). She wrote about the history, cultural traditions (from ancient China to "sang diggin'" in Appalachia) and the science of this powerful herb. Her numerous travel articles appeared in both national and international newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, The Independent (London), Japan Times (Tokyo), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and New Zealand Herald (Auckland).See for example, "Travel on the Cheap in Japan: Cost Cutting Information," Transitions Abroad Magazines such as Mother Jones, Voyageur, Blue Ridge Country, Kentucky Living, Texas Highways, New Mexico Journey, Nevada Magazine, Tokyo Journal, Traveller (London), Gulf Weekly (Dubai), Morning Calm (Seoul), Caribbean Beat (Trinidad), and Golden Falcon (Bahrain) published her stories. Nearly 30 of her textbooks for English as a Foreign Language classes are still marketed in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. She died October 7, 2010, at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, Kentucky. References External links * kristinjohannsen.com Writers from Kentucky University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni American environmentalists American women environmentalists Ecofeminists 2010 deaths 1957 births People from Tomah, Wisconsin People from Berea, Kentucky "