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27-865: The October Horse is the sixth novel in Colleen McCullough 's Masters of Rome series . It was first published in November 2002 by Century in UK and Simon & Schuster in USA. The book begins with Gaius Julius Caesar 's Egyptian campaign in Alexandria , his final battles with the Republicans led by Metellus Scipio , Cato the Younger , Titus Labienus and the brothers Pompeius in Africa and Spain, and ultimately Caesar's assassination on

54-528: A former administrator pled guilty to fraud and tax charges for the theft of over $ 40 million dollars of computer and electronic software. Jamie Petrone-Codrington illegally bought and sold hardware purchased for the School of Medicine, starting in 2013. According to the court records, Petrone-Codrington was turned in by an anonymous tip after being seen loading computer equipment into her private vehicle, and after ordering high volumes of equipment. Before 1845, there

81-605: A research associate job at Yale. She spent 10 years (April 1967 to 1976) researching and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut , United States. While at Yale she wrote her first two books. One of these, The Thorn Birds , became an international bestseller and one of the best selling books in history, with sales of over 30 million copies worldwide, that in 1983 inspired one of

108-606: A strong interest in both science and the humanities. She had a younger brother, Carl, who drowned off the coast of Crete when he was 25 while trying to rescue tourists in difficulty. She based a character in The Thorn Birds on him, and also wrote about him in Life Without the Boring Bits . Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as a teacher, librarian and journalist. In her first year of medical studies at

135-501: A tobacco-farming community where his parents came from, and where he practiced as a country physician for the rest of his life. The saddlebags that Dr. Bissell carried in his practice, packed with paper packets and glass bottles, are today in the school's Medical Historical Library. The original building (at Grove and Prospect) later became Sheffield Hall, part of the Sheffield Scientific School (razed in 1931). In 1860,

162-919: Is thus based on seminar participation, qualifying examinations (if a student fails, it is his or her responsibility to meet with a professor and arrange for an alternative assessment - passing grades are not released), clinical clerkship evaluations, and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Prior to graduation , students are required to submit a thesis based on original research . For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Yale School of Medicine tied at #10 in Best Medical Schools: Research and tied at #108 in Best Medical Schools: Primary Care. In 18th century United States, credentials were not needed to practice medicine. Prior to

189-598: The Ides of March by Marcus Brutus , Gaius Cassius and the Liberators. The latter stages of The October Horse chronicle the death of Cicero , the emergence of Octavian and his battles with Mark Antony , and conclude with the Battle of Philippi . The title of the book comes from a peculiar chariot race in Rome on the Ides of October, after which the right-hand horse of the winning team

216-708: The University of Sydney she suffered dermatitis from surgical soap and was told to abandon her dreams of becoming a medical doctor. Instead, she switched to neuroscience and worked at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. In 1963, McCullough moved for four years to the United Kingdom; at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London she met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University who offered her

243-717: The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MD/ PhD ); and the MD/ Master of Divinity (MDiv) in conjunction with Yale Divinity School . Students pursuing a tuition-free fifth year of research are eligible for the Master of Health Science degree. The school employs the "Yale System" established by Dean Winternitz in the 1920s, wherein first- and second-year students are not graded or ranked among their classmates. In addition, course examinations are anonymous and are intended only for students' self-evaluation. Student performance

270-541: The Yale School of Public Health . There are also joint degree programs with other disciplines at Yale, including the MD/ Juris Doctor (J.D.) in conjunction with Yale Law School ; the MD/ Master of Business Administration (MBA) in conjunction with the Yale School of Management ; the MD/ Master of Public Health (MPH) in conjunction with the Yale School of Public Health ; science or engineering in conjunction with

297-517: The 2000s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO ( / m ə ˈ k ʌ l ə / ; married name Robinson , previously Ion-Robinson ; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi . McCullough

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324-623: The Carmine Delmonico series. Yale Medical School The primary teaching hospital for the school is Yale New Haven Hospital . The school is home to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library , one of the largest modern medical libraries which is known for its historical collections. The faculty includes 70 National Academy of Sciences members, 47 National Academy of Medicine members, and 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. For

351-693: The Emily Bay cemetery on the island. In 1978, McCullough received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 1984, a portrait of McCullough, painted by Wesley Walters, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize . The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics". The depth of historical research for

378-487: The age of 77, in the Norfolk Island Hospital, Burnt Pine , from apparent renal failure after suffering from a series of small strokes. She had suffered from failing eyesight due to haemorrhagic macular degeneration , and also suffered from osteoporosis , trigeminal neuralgia , diabetes and uterine cancer , and used a wheelchair full-time. She was buried in a traditional Norfolk Island funeral ceremony at

405-565: The class of 2022, the school received 4,968 applications to fill 104 seats. The median GPA for the class was 3.89, and the median MCAT was 521. The School of Medicine offers the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree and a Master of Medical Science (MMSc) degree through the Yale Physician Associate Program and Yale Physician Assistant Online Program for prospective physician assistants . Public health degrees are administered through

432-542: The first faculty members. Silliman was a professor of chemistry and taught at both Yale College and the Medical School. The other two founding faculty were Jonathan Knight , anatomy, physiology and surgery and Eli Ives , pediatrics. One of Yale's earliest medical graduates was Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell of Hanover, New Hampshire , who graduated in 1815, a member of the school's second graduating class. Following his graduation, Dr. Bissell moved to Suffield, Connecticut ,

459-535: The founding of the medical school, Yale graduates would train through an apprenticeship in order to become physicians. Yale President Ezra Stiles conceived the idea of training physicians at Yale and ultimately, his successor Timothy Dwight IV helped found the medical school. The school was chartered in 1810 and opened in New Haven in 1813. Nathan Smith (medicine and surgery) and Benjamin Silliman (pharmacology) were

486-634: The isolation of Norfolk Island , off the coast of mainland Australia, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson. They married in April 1984. Under his birth name Cedric Newton Ion-Robinson, he was a member of the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly . He changed his name formally to Ric Newton Ion Robinson in 2002. McCullough's 2008 novel, The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet engendered controversy with her reworking of characters from Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice . Susannah Fullerton ,

513-509: The most-watched television miniseries of all time. Following The Thorn Birds , McCullough wrote her magnum opus: seven novels on the life and times of Julius Caesar , each a colossus weighing in at up to 1,000 pages. The Masters of Rome series preoccupied her for almost 30 years, from the early 1980s to the publication of the final volume in 2007. The research was a monumental task: a library of several thousand books and monographs on every aspect of Roman history and civilisation accumulated on

540-467: The novels on ancient Rome led to her being awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by Macquarie University in 1993. McCullough was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia on 12 June 2006, "[f]or service to the arts as an author and to the community through roles supporting national and international educational programs, medico-scientific disciplines and charitable organisations and causes". Following

567-544: The president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, said she "shuddered" while reading the novel, as she felt that Elizabeth Bennet was rewritten as weak, and Mr. Darcy as savage. Fullerton said: "[Elizabeth] is one of the strongest, liveliest heroines in literature … [and] Darcy's generosity of spirit and nobility of character make her fall in love with him – why should those essential traits in both of them change in 20 years?" McCullough died on 29 January 2015, at

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594-544: The publication of The Ladies of Missalonghi in 1987, McCullough was accused of having plagiarised The Blue Castle , a 1926 novel by L.M. Montgomery . McCullough responded that any similarities were due to subconscious recollection . In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in November 2004 to promote Angel Puss , McCullough said the men of Pitcairn Island that were convicted of sexual encounters with children should have been allowed to follow their "custom" and have sex with young girls. "The Poms have cracked

621-608: The school moved to Medical Hall on York Street, near Chapel (this building was razed in 1957). In 1925, the school moved to its current campus, neighboring the hospital. This campus includes the Sterling Hall of Medicine (erected in 1925), Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine (1991, designed by Cesar Pelli ), Anlyan Center (2003, designed by Payette and Venturi Scott Brown ) and the Amistad Building (2007, designed by Herbert Newman). On March 28, 2022, Jamie Petrone-Codrington,

648-426: The shelves of her home. She drew maps of cities and battlefields, scoured the world’s museums for busts and inscriptions, consulted experts in a dozen universities and recorded every known fact about her subject and his times. The success of these books enabled her to give up her medical-scientific career and to try to "live on [her] own terms." In the late 1970s, after stints in London and Connecticut, she settled on

675-419: The whip and it's an absolute disgrace. These are indigenous customs and should not be touched. These were the first people to inhabit Pitcairn Island, and they are racially unique." she said. "It's hypocritical, too. Does anybody object when Muslims follow their customs?"  The comments generated stories at the time, and were mentioned in her obituaries. McCullough also published five murder mysteries in

702-567: Was born in 1937 in Wellington , in the Central West region of New South Wales , to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part- Māori descent. During her childhood, the family moved around a great deal and she was also "a voracious reader". Her family eventually settled in Sydney where she attended Holy Cross College, Woollahra , having

729-700: Was sacrificed to the Roman gods. Then two teams, one from the Subura and the other from the Via Sacra , competed for the Horse's head. Julius Caesar , figuratively the best war horse in Rome, represents the October Horse in this novel. Kirkus Reviews says the book is "a rousing and richly satisfying take on some of history's real beings." This article about a historical novel of

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