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Eva Duarte de Peron Eva Duarte de Peron
Eva Duarte de Perón , 1919-52, Argentine political leader. The second wife of Juan Perón , whom she married in 1945, she virtually co-governed the country during his first six years as president. A minor actress before she met Perón, Evita, as she was known, became active in... Read more
Jose Napoleon Duarte Jose Napoleon Duarte
José Napoleón Duarte Jos Read more
Duarte Duarte
Duarte , 1391-1438, king of Portugal (1433-38), eldest of the five sons of John I. He was a "philosopher-king," notable for his legal reforms and as the author of O leal conselheiro [the loyal counselor]. Much concerned with exploration, he spurred on his brother Prince Henry the Navigator ... Read more
Juan Domingo Peron Juan Domingo Peron
Juan Domingo Perón , 1895-1974, president of Argentina (1946-55; 1973-74). Early Career and First Presidency An army officer, Perón was the leader of a group of colonels that rose to prominence after the overthrow of the government of Ramón Castillo in 1943, a group which... Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948-, British theatrical composer. A member of a successful musical family, he began composing musicals as a teenager; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) was an early work done in collaboration with the lyricist Tim Rice. Lloyd Webber's spectacular string of... Read more
John I (Portugal) John I (Portugal)
John I (John the Great), 1357?-1433, king of Portugal (1385-1433), illegitimate son of Peter I. He was made (1364) grand master of the Knights of Aviz and exercised his influence in opposition to Leonor Teles, the queen of his half brother, Ferdinand I . After Ferdinand's death (1383), his widow... Read more
Evita Evita
Evita (1979). The musical about the factual Eva Peron, from her humble beginnings to her marriage to the Argentine dictator Juan Peron to her early death, was a London hit before opening at the Broadway Theatre for a run of 1,567 performances, becoming the longest‐running foreign musical... Read more
Hispaniola Hispaniola
Hispaniola , Span. Española , second largest island of the West Indies, 29,530 sq mi (76,483 sq km), between Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti occupies the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic the remainder. Visited by Columbus in 1492, the island was called Española.... Read more
Alfonso V (Portugal) Alfonso V (Portugal)
Alfonso V 1432-81, king of Portugal (1438-81), son of Duarte and Queen Leonor. During his minority there was a struggle for the regency between the queen mother and Alfonso's uncle, Dom Pedro, duke of Coimbra. The duke was triumphant (1440) and retained power after Alfonso was declared of age... Read more
Applause Applause
Applause (1970), a musical play by Betty Comden, Adolph Green (book), Charles Strouse (music), Lee Adams (lyrics). [PalaceTheatre, 896 perf.; Tony Award.] Theatre fan Eve Harrington ( Penny Fuller) is so starstruck with Broadway leading lady Margo Channing ( Lauren Bacall) that she is soon her... Read more

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