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Pearl Lang
Pearl Lang 1922-, American dancer and choreographer, b. Chicago. Lang was a soloist with Martha Graham's company (1942-52) before forming her own company in 1952. As a dancer and choreographer she was noted for her range of dramatic expression in such works as Rites (1953) and Falls the Shadow B...
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Cosmo Gordon Lang
Cosmo Gordon Lang 1864-1945, English churchman, archbishop of York (1908-28), archbishop of Canterbury (1928-42), b. Aberdeen, Scotland. From 1901 to 1908, while suffragan bishop of Stepney, London, and canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, he attempted to improve slum conditions and attracted wide attent...
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang 1844-1912, English scholar and man of letters, b. Scotland. His poetry, much of it written in the forms of ballades, triolets, and rondeaux, appeared in such volumes as his Ballads in Blue China (2 vol., 1880-81). Lang was one of the first to apply anthropological findings to the stud...
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, American photographer, b. Hoboken, N.J. From 1916 until 1932, Lange operated a portrait studio. During the Depression she took her camera into the streets of San Francisco where she began to make exceptionally powerful images of people, which speak of the time and the worl...
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David Russell Lange
David Russell Lange , 1942-2005, New Zealand politician. After receiving his law degree (LL.M., 1970) he fought for the rights of the underprivileged in Auckland, and was elected to the House of Representatives as a Labor party member in 1977. He became deputy leader of the party in 1979 and leader ...
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Alexander Lange Kielland
Alexander Lange Kielland , 1849-1906, Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Two early volumes of short stories— Tales of Two Countries (1879, tr. 1891) and Norse Tales and Sketches (1897)—placed him among the important realists. His witty and ironic novels, written w...
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Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang , 1890-1976, German-American film director, b. Vienna. His silent and early sound films, such as Metropolis (1926), are marked by brilliant expressionist technique. He gained worldwide acclaim with M (1933), a study of a child molester and murderer. After directing 15 films, Lang fled...
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Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy , town (1991 pop. 46,356) and district, Fife, E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. Industries textiles and furniture manufacture and light electrical engineering. Its port engages in coastal trade. Several Flemish-style structures from the later Middle Ages rest near Kirkcaldy Harbor. The di...
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Sir Robert David Muldoon
Sir Robert David Muldoon 1921-92, New Zealand political leader, prime minister (1975-84). Originally a public accountant, he entered parliament in 1960 as a member of the conservative National party and served (1967-72) as finance minister. He was briefly (1972) deputy prime minister and from 1974 ...
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Proverbs
Proverbs book of the Bible. It is a collection of sayings, many of them moral maxims, in no special order. The teaching is of a practical nature; it does not dwell on the salvation-historical traditions of Israel, but is individual and universal based on the observation of nature. There are eight d...
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