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Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo , 1869-1964, Philippine leader. In the insurrection against Spain in 1896 he took command, and by terms of the peace that ended it he went into exile at Hong Kong (1897). After the outbreak of the Spanish-American War , Aguinaldo returned to the Philippines and led a Philippine ins...
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Pietro Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio , 1871-1956, Italian soldier and public official. After serving in World War I, he was governor of Libya (1929-33) and succeeded Gen. Emilio de Bono as commander in chief in the Ethiopian conquest, which he brought (1936) to a victorious end. Created duke of Addis Ababa, he was brief...
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astatine
astatine [Gr.,=unstable], semimetallic radioactive chemical element; symbol At; at. no. 85; at. wt. of most stable isotope 210; m.p. 302°C (estimated); b.p. 337°C (estimated); density unknown; valence believed to be +1, +3, +5, or +7. Astatine is the heaviest known halogen (Group 17 of th...
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Frederick Funston
Frederick Funston 1865-1917, U.S. general, b. New Carlisle, Ohio. He was a newspaper reporter and a field agent (1888-95) of the Dept. of Agriculture, exploring Death Valley and the Yukon. Love of adventure led him to enlist in the army of Máximo Gómez y Báez to help win Cuban ...
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Mwai Kibaki
Mwai Kibaki (Emilio Mwai Kibaki), 1931-, Kenyan political leader. An economist educated at the London School of Economics, he was elected to Kenya's first parliament (1963) as a member of the Kenya African National Union (KANU). He served as minister of finance and economic planning (1970-78) under...
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Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo , 1861-1928, Italian novelist, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz, b. Trieste. A businessman, he wrote several works of fiction, but remained practically unknown until discovered by James Joyce . His fiction is psychological and introspective, his characters mainly narcissistic, and his...
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George Dewey
George Dewey , 1837-1917, American admiral, hero of the battle of Manila, b. Montpelier, Vt., grad. Annapolis, 1858. He saw active duty in the Civil War and rose in the navy in service and rank, becoming chief of the Bureau of Equipment in 1889, president of the Board of Inspection and Survey in 189...
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Manuel Luis Quezon
Manuel Luis Quezon , 1878-1944, first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935-44). While a law student, he joined (1899) Emilio Aguinaldo 's insurrectionary army and fought the U.S. forces until 1901. He was imprisoned briefly after the insurrection. Admitted (1903) to the bar, he wa...
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Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin 1910-87, African-American civil-rights leader, b. West Chester, Pa. He attended three colleges but did not obtain a degree. A Quaker, he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector for more than two years during World War II. Devoting much of his early career to pacifist activities, he...
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oratorio
oratorio , musical composition employing chorus, orchestra, and soloists and usually, but not necessarily, a setting of a sacred libretto without stage action or scenery. The immediate forerunner of oratorio, Emilio del Cavaliere's sacred opera La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo applied the t...
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