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duma , Russian name for a representative body, particularly applied to the Imperial Duma established as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The parliamentary organization of 1906, largely the work of Count Witte , provided for a state council (an upper house, with some members appointed by ... Read more
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas , known as Dumas père , 1802-70, French novelist and dramatist. His father (an illegitimate son of the marquis de la Pailleterie and a black woman, Louise Cosette Dumas), was a general in the Revolution. Dumas delighted many generations of readers with his highly romantic n... Read more
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas known as Dumas fils , 1824-95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate son of Dumas Père. He was the chief creator of the 19th-century comedy of manners. His first important play, La Dame aux camélias (1852, tr. 1856), known in English as Camille, was a sens... Read more
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone , 1892-1986, American historian and editor, b. Coldwater, Miss. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1923 and was an instructor of history at Yale (1919-23) and associate professor (1923-26) and professor (1926-29) at the Univ. of Virginia. He was an editor of the Dictionary of American ... Read more
Jean Baptiste André Dumas
Jean Baptiste André Dumas , 1800-1884, French organic chemist. He was distinguished for his researches on atomic weights, esters, vapor densities, the oxidation products of alcohols, and the laws of substitution. He taught in several institutions, including the Sorbonne; served as minister of... Read more
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin , 1938-, Soviet and Russian government official. Beginning in 1957, he held positions in the Soviet national oil and gas industry, serving (1985-89) as minister in control of the nation's huge energy complex. After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Chernomyrdin s... Read more
Auguste Laurent
Auguste Laurent , 1808-53, French organic chemist. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry. His studies on naphthalene and its chlorination products led him to propose a nucleus theory that foreshadowed modern structural chemistry; he proposed that the structural grouping of atoms... Read more
Piotr Arkadevich Stolypin
Piotr Arkadevich Stolypin , 1862-1911, Russian premier and minister of the interior (1906-11) for Czar Nicholas II. He sought to fight the revolutionary movement with both severe repression and social reform. He instituted a regime of courts-martial to suppress revolutionary terrorism and peasant di... Read more
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , 1827-75, French sculptor and painter. He studied with François Rude and won the Prix de Rome. Carpeaux rose to fame with his Ugolino (1860-62; Louvre) and became a favorite of the Second Empire, receiving many portrait commissions. Of his sculpture groups, the best ... Read more
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky , 1881-1970, Russian revolutionary. A lawyer, he was elected to the fourth duma in 1912 as a representative of the moderate Labor party. He joined the Socialist Revolutionary party after the February Revolution of 1917 that overthrew the czarist government and became... Read more

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Dumas, Alexandre
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Alexandre Dumas Born: July 24, 1802 Soissons, France...author, playwright, and novelist Alexandre Dumas, the French author of many plays, popular...of Monte Cristo. Early life Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802, near Soissons...
Alexandre Dumas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances...wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas p è reto distinguish him from his...
Dumas, Alexandre (1802–1870)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Dumas, Alexandre (1802 – 1870) The French novelist and dramatist commonly known as Dumas p è re, to distinguish him from his writer son (also named Alexandre Dumas), was born in Villers-Cotter ê ts...
Jean Baptiste André Dumas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jean Baptiste Andr é Dumas The French chemist Jean Baptiste Andr é Dumas (1800-1884) worked in the field of organic...organic structure. On July 14, 1800, Jean Baptiste Dumas was born at Alais. In his youth he was apprenticed...
Dumas, Alexandre, père
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Dumas, Alexandre, père [ Davy de la...novelist and playwright, of Creole parentage, Dumas being the name of his West Indian grandmother...Porte-Saint-Martin , where several of Dumas's more melodramatic pieces were first produced...
Dumas Malone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume...familiarity with Jefferson was "nothing short of amazing." Dumas Malone was born in Coldwater, Mississippi on January 10, 1892...
Dumas, Alexandre, fils
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Dumas, Alexandre, fils (1824–95...success it was destined to remain the younger Dumas's only Romantic play. He turned to social...xE9;es de Madame Aubray (1867). Dumas had little liking for the bohemian society...
Dumas fils
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Dumas fils see Dumas, Alexandre (1824-95).
Dumas père
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Dumas père see Dumas, Alexandre (1802-70).
Dumas, Andre A(lfred) (1908-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Dumas, Andre A(lfred) (1908-) French engineer and author of La Science de l' â me (1947) and many articles on parapsychological...

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Dumas, Jean-Baptiste-André
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Dumas, Jean-Baptiste-Andr é ( b...Cannes, France, 11 April 1884) chemistry . Dumas, son of the town clerk of Al è s...Le Royer, a local pharmaceutical firm. Dumas ’ s earliest researches were in...
Dumas, Alexandre
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Dumas, Alexandre (or Dumas fils ) (1824–95) French dramatist. He became one of...Empire. His play La Dame aux camélias (1852) was based on Dumas's own novel (1848) and inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata (1853...
Prevost, Jean-Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Lebert, Antoine Morin, and Jean-Baptiste Dumas. Prevost was concerned with the care of...animaux “ (1821), written with Dumas, Prevost made a histological examination...In 1824, again in collaboration with Dumas, Prevost published three memoirs on generation...
Laurent, Auguste (or Augustin)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Centrale des Arts et Manufactures by J. B. Dumas. From 1832 to 1834 Laurent worked as chemist...the direction of Alexandre Brongniart, Dumas ’ s father-in-law. There...impatient and suspicious of authority. Dumas, who epitomized conventional virtues of...
Meyerson, Ignace (1888-1983)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...xE8; re. He got to know Pierre Janet and Georges Dumas and became Dumas's assistant in the psychology laboratory of the Saint Anne asylum. At the request of Dumas and publisher, F é lix Alcan he started to...
Cahours, Auguste André Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...been discovered by Scheele and analyzed by Dumas. Cahours suspected that it might well...work he followed the method indicated by Dumas and Eug é ne P é ligot...In 1851 he had become Jean-Baptiste Dumas ’ s suppl é ant at the...
Gerhardt, Charles Frédéric
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1838, he enrolled in the course given by Dumas in the Faculty of Sciences. For three years he studied with Dumas and family became his assistant. Gerhardt...a few days and on the recommedation of Dumas, Gerhardt was nominated to a vacancy in...
Kjeldahl, Johann Gustav Christoffer
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of Gay-Lussac and Th é nard, Dumas finally succeeded in 1831 in creating a...evident from the contemporary literature, Dumas ’ s method was “ a...method had long been sought to replace Dumas ’ s combustion method. In 1841...
Baudrimont, Alexandre Édouard
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...organic chemistry. He engaged in a priority dispute with both Dumas and Laurent over the type theory, although Laurent did give...developed independently of the theory of substitution propounded by Dumas and Laurent. As a theorist, Baudrimont was also one of the...
Marchand, Richard Felix
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...radical concept which had been introduced in 1834. Following Dumas, in 1838, Marchand and Erdmann developed a technique for the...x201C; apes ” and bunglers who always echoed Dumas. 3 NOTES W ö hler to Berzelius, 12 Oct. 1839. See...

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Dumas, the prodigious: a profile of Alexandre Dumas.
Magazine article from: World and I; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...examine the creative life of author Alexander Dumas than when a new Hollywood version of The...French marquis and a black slave: Alexander Dumas. His collected works run to something...initial publication some 150 years ago. Dumas' life was quite as extraordinary and outsized...
Alexandre Dumas rides again - 137 years later.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 9/18/2007; 700+ words ; Byline: Erik Spanberg Alexandre Dumas died 137 years ago, but he still has a...the characteristic twist of fate found in Dumas swashbucklers such as "The Count of Monte...and "The Three Musketeers." Eminent Dumas scholar Claude Schopp discovered the vestiges...
Dumas y el vicio impune.(Alejandro Dumas, autor)(TT: Dumas and the unpunished vice.)(TA: Alexandre Dumas, author)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 1/9/2000; 700+ words ; ...tan ofensivas como la frase de Alejandro Dumas: "La historia es un gancho que utilizo...novelas". Y sin embargo, la inspiracin de Dumas al iniciar su carrera de novelista fueron...quiere con sus despojos se exacerb cunado Dumas dijo que le gustara tener como "negro...
Dumas set on escape: officer
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/13/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...testified at a coroner's inquest that Matthew Dumas, who was shot dead by another police officer...Kildonan at the time, thought that Matthew Dumas might have been a suspect in an Elmwood...area looking for suspects when he spotted Dumas, 18, nervously looking at his marked...
Dumas witness feared for his life
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/11/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...being shot to death by police, Matthew Dumas went after a bystander who told a coroner...and was trying to help police apprehend Dumas the afternoon of Jan. 31, 2005. When...investigating a home invasion approached Dumas, the 18-year-old ran off. Police...
Dumas dump nearly filled.
Newspaper article from: Amarillo Globe-News (Amarillo, TX); 3/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...big. But make no mistake about it -- Dumas' landfill is quickly running out of room...fill-up)," said Vincent DiPiazza, Dumas' city manager. "People turn on their...how their solid waste is disposed of." Dumas' landfill accepted 13,389 tons of waste...
Dumas 'was a threat:' officer
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/17/2008; ; 640 words ; ...oozed out his lower back, a dying Matthew Dumas only wanted one thing. "He did tell me...Curtis on Monday while family members of Dumas wept silently and were brought tissues...Antonio said he couldn't recall if Dumas, 18, said anything else after being shot...
DUMAS ACHES TO PLAY; THE SU LINEBACKER ASPIRES TO PLAY IN THE NFL, BUT AN INJURY SIDELINES HIM.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 11/2/2003; 700+ words ; ...yellow cross hangs around the neck of Jameel Dumas. It has been pulled up and off his shoulder...s half the season (six games) gone. Dumas has been practicing again for the past...absence. "It's killing me," he said. Dumas declined to specify the injury. He declined...
Dumas shooter 'kept in dark' by police force
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/14/2008; ; 700+ words ; By Carol Sanders The officer who fatally shot Matthew Dumas told a coroner's inquest Friday that he was "kept in...the events leading up to the death of 18-year-old Dumas. Dumas was shot Jan. 31, 2005 after he bolted from a police...
Dumas' disgrace points to a deep vein of sleaze
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/31/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...The former French foreign minister Roland Dumas was convicted of receiving embezzled funds...It became clear in the trial that the "Dumas Affair" was only part of a more complex...decades. The court decided yesterday that Dumas accepted gifts from Elf - transmitted through...