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Juan Ruiz
Juan Ruiz , 1283?-1350?, Spanish poet, musician, and archpriest of Hita. Ruiz suffered 13 years in prison, during which time he revised his masterpiece, El Libro de buen amor (c.1330, tr. The Book of Good Love, 1933). This is a miscellany in verse of fables; autobiographic adventures in the... Read more |
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C Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills 1916-62, American sociologist, b. Waco, Tex. He studied at the Univ. of Texas (A.B., M.A., 1939) and the Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1942) and spent his academic career (1946-62) as a professor at Columbia Univ. A controversial figure, Mills advocated a comparative world sociology... Read more |
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Power Elite
Power Elite BIBLIOGRAPHY In his 1956 work of the same name, American sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term power elite to characterize a new coalition of ruling groups that rose to dominance in the post-World War II United States. Mills rejected the conventional view of a dispersed,... Read more |
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Racine
Racine , industrial city (1990 pop. 84,298), seat of Racine co., SE Wis., on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Root River; inc. 1848. It is a port of entry, and its manufactures include farm machinery, automobile parts, stitching machines, tools, corrugated containers, waxes and polishes, and... Read more |
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Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina , pseud. of Fray Gabriel Téllez , 1584?-1648, outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. His fame rests on El burlador de Sevilla (1630; tr. The Love Rogue, 1924), the earliest known literary version of the Don Juan legend. Among the 300 or 400 plays by... Read more |
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Cennino Cennini
Cennino Cennini , c.1370-1440, Florentine painter, follower of Agnolo Gaddi. None of his paintings is extant. He is most famous for having written the Libro dell'arte (written 1400?, tr., The Craftsman's Handbook, 1933). This treatise marks a transition between medieval and Renaissance concepts... Read more |
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Tell el Amarna
Tell el Amarna or Tel el Amarna , ancient locality, Egypt, near the Nile and c.60 mi (100 km) N of Asyut. Ikhnaton's capital, Akhetaton, was in Tell el Amarna. About 400 tablets with inscriptions in Akkadian cuneiform were found there in 1887. They constitute correspondence between Amenhotep III... Read more |
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Baldassare Conte Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione, Conte , 1478-1529, Italian soldier, author, and statesman attached to the court of the duke of Milan and later in the service of the duke of Urbino. His famous Libro del cortegiano (1528, tr. The Courtier, 1561), a treatise on etiquette, social problems, and intellectual... Read more |
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Kitty Hawk
Kitty Hawk or Kittyhawk, part of an offshore sandbar on Cape Hatteras, NE N.C., E of Albemarle Sound. Nearby is Kill Devil Hill, where the Wright brothers experimented successfully (1900-1903) with gliders and airplanes. Wright Brothers National Memorial (see National Parks and Monuments ,... Read more |
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El Misti
El Misti , dormant volcano, c.19,150 ft (5,840 m) high, in the Cordillera Occidental, S Peru, rising over the city of Arequipa. El Misti is flanked by two other volcanos—on the NW by Chachani, 19,960 ft (6,083 m) high, and on the SE by Pichu Pichu, 18,400 ft (5,608 m) high. El Misti, with its... Read more |
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100 años de Revolución Mexicana México siente, vivo, en sus venas profundas,...
...criminales y corruptos, de oligarquías arrodilladas ante los yanquis, de clérigos pedófilos y embrutecidos, de banqueros usureros...curativa. Revolución Mexicana Permanente que está aquí ¿Se escucha? Está detrás de todos los calendarios pasados, presentes... |
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Barry Zito Relegado al "Bullpen" por Primera Vez
...KNBR 680AM, una poderosa señal de 50,000 vatios que se escucha en toda la costa oeste del país (en especial por las noches...control y mucho en la bola. Charlie Silveira, receptor de los Yanquis en la década del 1950 (remplazo de Yogi Berra) quien vive... |
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¿Se perderán para siempre?
...ponerles un eficaz subrayado demagógico. Una frase que se escucha a cada paso en nuestra América, sobre todo cuando se trata del caso de Cuba, es la de "no injerencia". Nuestros pueblos son muy celosos...y para no dar la sensación de "lamebotas del imperialismo yanqui". El mundo, repetimos, ... |