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Levant Company
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Levant Company The company, granted a charter by Elizabeth in 1581, had the sole right to trade with the Ottoman empire. A new charter in 1592 increased the number of traders and added Venice to its sphere. It was commonly known as the Turkey Company.
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Levant bio: An intriguing character in clumsy hands
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...FOR GENIUS The Life and Times of Oscar Levant By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger Villard, 512 pp., illustrated, $25 Oscar Levant was jack of all musical trades and master...period in the late 1940s and early 1950s Levant was the most popular concert pianist in...
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A&E's `Levant': Triumphs Of a Troubled Man
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/25/1997; ; 700+ words
; Oscar Levant was magnificent in his misery. And his...television during the '50s and '60s. Levant died in 1972, but he's back on the air...Thompson, who produced and directed "Levant," has done at best a satisfactory job...
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Willimantic may owe Levant $29,000 in taxes
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 5/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...taxes that were supposed to be paid to Levant in Penobscot County. The excise taxes that Jacqueline Gorey accepted from a Levant resident over about eight years were...in fact, they should have been Levant's revenues, according to Maine...
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`Wit's End' lacks insight into Levant's tormented soul
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/26/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...with music, in two acts about Oscar Levant by Joel Kimmel Directed by Barbara Karp...not always convincing portrait of Oscar Levant, the celebrated musician who was known...Pieced together by Joel Kimmel from Levant's three autobiographies, the evening...
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PLAY BRINGS OSCAR LEVANT BACK TO LIFE
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/2/1990; 700+ words
; ...pianist, humorist and author, Oscar Levant in "At Wit's End: A Play With Music...Freeman excelled in capturing the essence of Levant, the cynical, cantankerously neurotic...The answer, it is hoped, is yes. Levant's storied life stands up well to the...
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A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/24/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant. At the height of his popularity in the late 1930s, Oscar Levant was one of the most recognizable figures...Doris Day before she became a virgin." Levant also made 13 Hollywood movies, playing...
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Got a goofy movie idea? Give Levant a jingle
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/17/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...that formed the consciousness of Brian Levant, the director responsible for unleashing...I grew up watching WGN," said Levant, who physically hails from north suburban...tends to laugh at everything he says, Levant followed his rerun fixation to Hollywood...
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Oscar Levant: Hollywood's First Celebrity Meltdown
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 12/24/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Sunday (NPR) 12-24-2006 Oscar Levant: Hollywood's First Celebrity Meltdown...publicly dysfunctional celebrity. Oscar Levant was born 100 years ago this week and over...country's most acerbic wits. But Oscar Levant considered himself a failure. He was...
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Recalling the warped wit of Oscar Levant
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/10/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...but I lacked his compassion." - Oscar Levant "I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy." - Oscar Levant Pause now with your tonic and lime and...stained fingers. On Thursday, Oscar Levant will have been gone 15 years. Elvis...
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California Real Estate Veteran Andrew Levant Rejoins Kennedy Wilson as Senior Managing Director, Business Development.
Newspaper article from: Mergers & Acquisitions Week; 10/14/2009; 700+ words
; ...announces that it has appointed Andrew Levant as Senior Managing Director, Business Development. Levant is re-joining the group's rapidly growing...circle and so too has my career," said Levant of his move back to KW. "This literally...
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Oscar Levant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Oscar Levant If George Gershwin had an alter-ego, most people would agree that it was Oscar Levant (1906-1972), film composer and arranger. Levant, who was best known as a jazz pianist, was considered...
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Levant
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
LEVANT LEVANT. The Levant covers the eastern Mediterranean, its islands, including Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Chios, and Lesbos, and the lands it borders: modern-day Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Egypt. Around 1300...
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Levant, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Levant, the an archaic name for the eastern part of the Mediterranean...meant more generally the countries of the east, with High Levant another term for the Far East. The archaic term levant ‘run away, typically leaving unpaid debts...
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levant
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
levant abscond, bolt; esp. of a debtor. XVIII. perh. f. levant in sl. phr. come the l. , run or throw a l ., make...intention of absconding if it is lost, ult. based on Levant , as in the F. phr. faire voile en Levant ‘...
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Special Forces of the Levant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
SPECIAL FORCES OF THE LEVANT Military group under the French mandate in Lebanon. After France...the League of Nations, it formed the Troupes Sp é ciales du Levant, which recruited Lebanese and Syrian soldiers and was commanded almost...
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