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Stark
1. Dame Freya (Madeline) . 1893--1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963)
2. Johannes . 1874--1957, German physicist, who discovered the splitting of the lines of a spectrum when the source of light is subjected to a strong electrostatic field (Stark effect, 1913): Nobel prize for physics 1919


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s He's still inhabiting a twilight zone of sombre starkness, with hissing cymbals and rumbling tom-toms heralding a clean trumpet-gleam.
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The desert, the light here, the starkness of the landscape have entered my poetry.
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