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Maia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Maia . 1 In Greek mythology, oldest of the Pleiades . She was the mother of Hermes by Zeus. 2 In Roman mythology, goddess of fertility; also called Maiesta. She was often identified with Bona Dea . The month of May was probably named for her.
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Radzinsky, Edvard Stanislavich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...vissarionovich; theater bibliography Kipp, Maia A. (1985). "The Dramaturgy of Edvard...University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kipp, Maia A. (1985). "Monologue About Love...12 (3):305 – 329. Kipp, Maia A. (1989). "In Search of a Synthesis...
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Gross, Al
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...played with things. He thought anything was possible. It just hadn't been done yet,” Fred Maia told Investor's Business Daily. Maia for 25 years was editor of the W5YI Report, a ham radio newsletter. Military Took Interest During...
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Taganka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...the Taganka Theatre 1964 – 1994. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. Gershkovich, Alexander. (1989). The Theater of Yuri Lyubimov: Art and Politics at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow. New York: Paragon House. Maia Kipp
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Yousuf Karsh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...look deeply in his collection, you can discover aspects to him that are quite unexpected." Equally lavish in her praise was Maia Sutnik, curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario, who told the Toronto Star, "He brought a huge sense of the...
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Freire, Paulo
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...up his career as a lawyer after his first case to teach Portuguese in secondary schools (Gadotti 1994). Freire married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveria, a primary school teacher, in 1944. Throughout their marriage, Elza encouraged and inspired Freire to devote...
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months of the year
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...possibly derived from the Latin aperire in reference to the blossoming of spring [30 days] May From the Roman month Maius, after Maia, goddess of growth [31 days] June From the Roman month Junius and named after Juno, goddess of marriage [30 days] July...
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Wood, Charles Erskine Scott
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...between Truth and a Poet, protesting against social injustice and championing humanitarian ideals. Later poetry appears in Maia (1918), a sonnet sequence, and Poems from the Ranges (1929). Colonel Wood, who long lived in California, is best known...
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Zeus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...consort was his sister, Hera, who bore him Ares and Hebe. Zeus also loved Themis, Eurynome, Demeter, Mnemosyne, Leto, and Maia and fathered many gods. Famous among his mortal loves were Danaë, Leda, Semele, Thetis, Io, and Europa. His sons...
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Pleiades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the earth. Six stars are easily visible to the naked eye—Alcyone (the brightest), Electra, Celaeno, Sterope, Maia, and Taygete. Known as the Seven Sisters, this group was named by the Greeks for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione...
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