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Charles Dutton
Charles S. Dutton 1951– Actor At a Glance … “Prison Saved My Life” Earned Degree in Theater From the Stage to the Big and Small Screens Sources Charles S. Dutton liked to joke that he went “from jail to Yale.” He is certainly the only star of a television... Read more |
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Master of the Life of the Virgin
Master of the Life of the Virgin (or Master of the Life of Mary) (active c.1460–90). German painter, named after a series of eight panels (from a dismembered alterpiece) illustrating the life of the Virgin, of which the Presentation in the Temple is in the National Gallery, London, and the... Read more |
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purgatory
purgatory [Lat.,=place of purging], in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, the state after death in which the soul destined for heaven is purified. Since only the perfect can enjoy the vision of God (inferred from Mat. 12.36; Rev. 21.17), and some die in grace who have still unpunished or... Read more |
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Vampires
Vampires Historians document that vampires have most often been reported as inhabitants of shallow graves in the Eastern European countryside. Bram Stoker portrayed Dracula (1897), most renown of all revenants, as master of a gloomy and forbidding castle. For contemporary novelist Anne Rice, the... Read more |
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orthoptics
orthoptics is the science concerned with ensuring that patients' eyes develop their full visual potential and keep working together throughout life.During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Javal, in France, started using ocular exercises and training methods for squints, which were very... Read more |
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Alcestis
Alcestis , in Greek mythology, daughter of Pelias . She was won in marriage by Admetus, who fulfilled her father's condition that her suitor come for her in a chariot pulled by a wild boar and a lion. So great was her devotion that when Admetus was granted life by the gods if someone would die in... Read more |
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Fads
FADS The Hula Hoop, Pet Rock, and Cabbage Patch Kids were all crazes known as fads. These products, like most fads, entered the market quickly, created a consumer obsession, sold millions of units in a short amount of time, and declined just as rapidly. Their special product life cycle of quick,... Read more |
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Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg , 1887-1951, Hungarian-American composer, educated in Vienna. He came to the United States in 1909, played in restaurant and café orchestras, and soon had his own orchestra. He wrote the score for the musical The Whirl of the World (1914), and followed it with more than 70... Read more |
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Laurence Oliphant
Laurence Oliphant , 1829-88, British author, b. Capetown, South Africa. Although he wrote some valuable travel books, he is probably best remembered for his fascinating life. The son of a judge, he became a lawyer and later secretary to Lord Elgin . He was a correspondent for the London Times ... Read more |
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Clarence Shepard Day
Clarence Shepard Day 1874-1935, American essayist, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1896. His biographical sketches of his parents, God and My Father (1932), Life with Father (1935), and Life with Mother (1937), won him popular recognition; incidents from these three books were used by Howard... Read more |
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Osama bin Laden is no jihadi hero
...single tear in my eyes. In the...and did it grave disservice. The way his...so that his grave would not become...wanted Osama dead but was not...hero and now dead that of a martyr...laid down his life for ... |
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LETTERS FROM READERS
...did a great disservice to its readers...but this time it overstepped...subscription in my life, but I need...counted as dead. At this point...Office is a grave disservice...problems. My aide ... |
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It's not the 'right to die' - it's the right to kill
...excruciating pain, was dead. Despite his wife...all aspects of our lives; the promotion...activity carrying the gravest of sentences to...professional option. At a time when the NHS is...dignity we do a grave disservice to ... |
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Whitewashed and watered down
...of his own life in this cowardly...tell you about my screenplay...excited about my screenplay...Bafana does a grave disservice to its subj...calls in the dead of night...ideal to make my Million Man...the ... |
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THE BIG MATCH.
...Hague at 36, time was clearly running...quaintly calls `my life's partner...resemble the living dead. Their leader...and welcome to my Home Page. I...this page is all my own creation...actually did Ffion a ... |
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Bereaved encounters
...Ken Loach's My Name is Joe will...their recently dead mother. For the...working-class life. Thomas (Gary...passage. But every time you think you...doing the film a grave disservice, as its riveting...stature as a ... |
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Beyond Evaluation.
...sites are doing a grave disservice. Librarians should...sites, not enough time, can't compete...Internet resources. Dead Sites Several guides...Yahoo! Internet Life (http://www...libraryspot.com/) * My Virtual Reference... |
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MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT EPILEPSY
...saving the life of Chicago...was 9-plus dead.' " The reader...were saving my life. People...have done a grave disservice to anyone who...short period of time. "While most...last a long time, ... |
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Bin Laden's mortal threat from beyond the grave; Bin Laden's Sept. 11 attacks...
...TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Every generation...Some gave their lives on the battlefields...Osama bin Laden is dead. It's a proud...pay was an outright disservice to anyone undertaking...step forward and do my part. I joined the...Sept. 11 ... |
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9/11 COMMISSION REPORT:SALLY REGENHARD
...to me and my organization...Report,the NY Times, and numerous...firefighter`s lives, including my own beautiful...I and my technicaladvisors...confirmedand is a disservice to their memory...people are dead - ... |
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