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Magenta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Magenta , town (1991 pop. 23,667), Lombardy, N Italy, near Milan. Manufactures...the Austrians, which opened the way to Milan. General MacMahon was made duke of Magenta by Napoleon III for his leading role in the battle.
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magenta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
magenta see fuchsin .
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Mellon, Annie Fairlamb (Mrs. J. B. Mellon) (ca. 1850-ca. 1938)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...experiments to obtain spirit molds (see plastics ). Unknown to Fairlamb, he mixed magenta dye with the paraffin. The molds were found to be tinted with magenta, which proved that they were not smuggled in ready-made. After touring the Continent...
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Marie Edmé Patrice de MacMahon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Algerian campaign, in the Crimean War, and in the Italian war of 1859. For his victory at Magenta (1859), Napoleon III created him duke of Magenta. He was governor-general (1864-70) of Algeria and a commander in the Franco-Prussian...
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quantum chromodynamics
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...form baryons , the resulting colour is always white. Antiquarks are given one of the three complementary colours: cyan, magenta, and yellow. When a quark combines with an antiquark to form a meson , the resulting colour is also white.
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Hans Hofmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Matisse, as in Liberation (1947), in which the paint is thinned down and delicately contained within the outlines, or in Magenta and Blue (1949-1950), in which both color and relationship of figure to ground plane paraphrase Matisse. Works of the...
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Plastics (Spirit Markings)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Davenport Brothers, William Eglinton, and Annie Fairlamb around the same time. T. P. Barkas of Newcastle, England, mixed magenta dye in the paraffin wax during experiments with Fairlamb in 1876. The gloves had traces of the dye. The psychical researcher...
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Atractylodes
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...grows in mountain valleys, especially in China's Zhejiang province. It may also be cultivated. In autumn, it presents magenta corolla blooms. In Mandarin, atractylodes is called Bai Zhu, Bai Shu, Yu Zhu, and Dong Zhu . The Cantonese term is Paak...
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Villafranca di Verona
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Venetia, NE Italy. In 1859, Napoleon III and Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria met there after the Austrian defeats at Magenta and Solferino and signed a preliminary peace treaty, which was formalized the same year by the Treaty of Zürich...
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Risorgimento
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1858) and promised military aid against Austria. War broke out in 1859. The French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians at Magenta and caused them to retreat at Solferino. These victories were so costly, however, that Napoleon signed a separate armistice...
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