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Lombards
Lombards , ancient Germanic people. By the 1st cent. AD the Lombards were settled along the lower Elbe. After obscure migrations they were allowed (547) by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to settle in Pannonia and Noricum (modern Hungary and E Austria). In 568, under the leadership of Alboin , they i... Read more
Alboin
Alboin , d. 572?, first Lombard king in Italy (569-572?). With the Avars he defeated the Gepidae (see Germans ). He then led (568) an army across the Alps into Italy, took (569) Milan, and after a three-year siege conquered Pavia, which became his capital. He won most of N and central Italy from ... Read more
Piacenza
Piacenza , city (1991 pop. 102,268), capital of Piacenza prov., in Emilia-Romagna, on the Po River. It is an agricultural, commercial, and industrial center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, furniture, buttons, and food products. The city was a Roman stronghold (called Colonia... Read more
Lombard League
Lombard League an alliance formed in 1167 among the communes of Lombardy to resist Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I when he attempted to assert his imperial authority in Lombardy. Previously the communes had been divided, some favoring the emperor and others favoring the pope. However, after Frederic... Read more
Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon c.725-799?, Lombard historian. He received a good education, probably at Pavia, and he learned Latin thoroughly and some Greek. He lived at Monte Cassino and at Charlemagne's court. His first work was a continuation of the Roman history of Eutropius through Justinian. He also wrote ... Read more
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard Lat. Petrus Lombardus, c.1100-c.1160, Italian theologian, often called Magister Sententiarum. He studied at Bologna, Reims, and Paris, where he is said to have been a student of Abelard. He acquired some fame as a teacher and was given high offices, serving for a time as archbishop ... Read more
Adda
Adda , river, 194 mi (312 km) long, rising in the Rhaetian Alps, N Italy, and flowing SW through Lake Como, then S into the Po River near Cremona. Its upper course furnishes much electric power; the lower river irrigates the Lombard plain. Many battles have been fought along its course, notably the ... Read more
pawnbroker
pawnbroker one who makes loans on personal effects that are left as security. The practice of pawnbroking is ancient, as is recognition of the danger it involves of oppressing the poor. In fact, the Bible provides the poor with a number of safeguards against oppression from their creditors. Accordi... Read more
Vicenza
Vicenza , city (1991 pop. 107,454), capital of Vicenza prov., Venetia, NE Italy. It is an agricultural, commercial, and highly diversified industrial center. Manufactures include machinery, chemicals, timber, and processed food. Originally a Roman town, later the seat of a Lombard duchy, Vicenza bec... Read more
Alessandria
Alessandria , city (1991 pop. 90,753), capital of Alessandria prov., in Piedmont, NW Italy, at the confluence of the Tanaro and Bormida rivers. It is an industrial center and agricultural market. Manufactures include wine, furniture, machinery, paper, and hats. Alessandria was built (1164-67) as a s... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Carole Lombard"

William Clark Gable
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...living. He divorced his second wife. Marriage to young Carole Lombard, a top star of the 1930s, led to an extended idyll...Pocket Books, 1994. Morella, Joe, Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow, London: W.H. Allen...
Ethel Merman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...role in a Hollywood film. The cast of the film We're Not Dressing included such major stars as Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard, but it did not give Merman a real chance to display her singing talent. Her biggest number was singing "The Animal...
Willy Pogány
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Children's Theater of the Heckscher Foundation and the building of the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Power Company. Portraiture occupied much of his last few years; two of his better-known subjects were John Barrymore and Carole Lombard.
Howard Winchester Hawks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, Bogart and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century ). This spiritual alliance of physical opposites revealed Hawks' unwillingness to accept the...
George Cooper Stevens
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Grant, Spencer Tracy, Joel McCrea, Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Fred Astaire, and Carole Lombard. While most of these films were romantic comedies, it was for dramas that he received his greatest kudos; as James...
Dixon, Jeane (1918-1997)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...F. Kennedy in 1963. She also predicted the Communist takeover of China, the partition of India, the deaths of Carole Lombard, Dag Hammarskj ö ld, and Mahatma Ghandhi, and the suicide of Marilyn Monroe. Dixon was born January 5...

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Lombard, Carole
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers LOMBARD, Carole Nationality: American...Dickens, Homer, "Carole Lombard," in Films in Review...1981. Lloyd, A., "Carole Lombard," in Films and...1983. Sarris, Andrew, "Carole Lombard," in American...
Powell, William
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...divorced 1931), son: William David;2) the actress Carole Lombard, 1931 (divorced 1933); 3) the actress Diana Lewis...Morella, Joe, and Edward Epstein, Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow, London, 1971. Francisco...
Ryan, Meg
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Maggie Cavanaugh); Top Gun (Tony Scott) (as Carole Bradshaw) 1987 Innerspace (Dante) (as Lydia Maxwell...replayed and comparisons would be drawn between her and Carole Lombard. Ryan offered a winsome amalgamation of innocence and...
Cromwell, John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Away. Meanwhile, Cromwell continued as director of other RKO successes, including In Name Only, with Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis; and Robert Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey. He also directed Hedy...
Kendall, Kay
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...sexy and funny—and all the sexier because she was funny—led several critics to compare her to Carole Lombard. But it also puzzled the studios, who never knew quite what to do with her. By the time they found out, it was...
Gable, Clark
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Married 1) Josephine Dillon, 1924 (divorced 1930); 2) Ria Langham, 1931 (divorced 1939); 3) the actress Carole Lombard, 1939 (died 1942); 4) Lady Sylvia Ashley, 1949 (divorced 1951); 5) Kay Speckles, 1955, son: John Clark...
Pfeiffer, Michelle
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...from the cloth of a long Hollywood tradition—a sexy, beautiful, intelligent, modern answer to, say, Carole Lombard, blessed with a sophisticated gift for witty one-liners, an ability to cross class barriers, and to bring c

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Screwball's Garbo? Carole Lombard Wants Fun.(Culture)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 4/24/2006; 700+ words ; ...seeming illogic, then the idea that Carole Lombard is screwball's Garbo is a natural...the flights of her lyric voice. Lombard could look lost in daydreams or...lesser-known pictures in the new "Carole Lombard: The Glamour Collection...
Clark Gable's "Hoosier Tornado".(REEL WORLD)(Carole Lombard)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...SCREWBALL comedy actress Carole Lombard of "My Man Godfrey...healthy sense of humor, Lombard still proved to be a...with a tractor, and Lombard cared for a large menagerie...1939 article titled, "Carole Lombard Assuming Role...
COLLEZIONE CAROLE LOMBARD
Magazine article from: Cineforum; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...ni ha confezionato per ricordare Carole Lombard (forse pensando ai cent'anni...carriera breve e intensa, quella della Lombard, interrotta - com' noto - nel...sei film di un analogo cofanetto Carole Lombard uscito nel 2006 in America...
B&B owners give up dream: Historic Carole Lombard House is up for sale.
Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN); 9/12/2007; 700+ words ; ...named for Fort Wayne-born actress Carole Lombard is evoking a sense of dejA vu...outside income to subsidize the Carole Lombard House, the couple simply...know one way or the other. But the Carole Lombard House has survived ownership...
Screwball Comedy's Queen; The Brief, Bright Light of Carole Lombard
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/12/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...On Jan. 16, 1942, actress Carole Lombard was flying back to Hollywood after...Vegas, killing all 22 on board. Lombard had just finished making her 57th...video.) Only 33 when she died, Lombard was a rarity in her time, a great...
Hoodlum on the hoof; Strictly an exception: Raft dances in Bolero with Carole Lombard.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...1959). Bolero was a 1934 film starring Raft and Carole Lombard and was a rare chancefor Raft to star as a dancer...she refuses. Instead, he recruits Helen Hathaway (Lombard) and devises an athletic routineto be accompanied by...
East of Doheny, the production company behind the Broadway run of "Grey Gardens," will present a reading Friday in New York of "My Man Godfrey," a new screwball musical comedy based on the 1936 Gregory La Cava film with William Powell and Carole Lombard.(Legit Bits)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 3/5/2009; ; 522 words ; ...My Man Godfrey," a new screwball musical comedy based on the 1936 Gregory La Cava film with William Powell and Carole Lombard. Music and lyrics for the show are by "Urinetown" composer Mark Hollmann, with book by Rupert Holmes ("Curtains...
A salute to Lombard's glamour.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)(FROM THE VAULTS)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/5/2008; 700+ words ; ...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Carole Lombard, whose centennial birth...Godfrey. In 1932, the Lombard-Powell marriage was...three years when Miss Lombard was killed in a plane...are deeply distressed. Carole was our friend, our...
Lombard's legacy something sacred.(NW Arts&Life)
Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA); 7/5/2009; 700+ words ; ...more of us would know the name of Carole Lombard. The popular actress, known for...from a scheduled train trip, as Lombard was eager to get home to California...Goddess of Laughter: The Comedies of Carole Lombard." The series, comprising...
Our Lady Lombard
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 11/19/2008; ; 700+ words ; Carole Lombard Film Forum, November 21-December 2 Our Lady Lombard Film Forum celebrates the centenary of Hollywood's...more often gushed forth in a high, tinkling rush, Carole Lombard seemed to play with the properties of celluloid...