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Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey Composer, conductor For the Record… Selected compositions Sources Beginning in the early 1950s, the American composer, conductor, and teacher Ralph Shapey devoted himself to the cause of new music. His own powerful and complex compositions reflect a personal vision... Read more
Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud 1939– Artist, novelist Worked as Artist, Novelist Faced Controversy Over Hemings Novel Courted Controversy Continued Her Creative Output Selected writings Sources In her massive sculptures, Barbara Chase-Riboud fuses elements from several different cultural traditions to... Read more
Juanita Kidd Stout Juanita Kidd Stout
Juanita Kidd Stout Juanita Kidd Stout (1919-1998) aspired to be a lawyer when few African Americans and few women were in the profession. When Stout was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she became the first African American woman to be elected to the... Read more
James Galanos James Galanos
GALANOS, James American designer Born:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 September 1924. Education:Studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion, New York, 1942-43. Career:General assistant, Hattie Carnegie, New York, 1944-45; sketch artist for Jean Louis, Columbia... Read more
Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin
Maxine Winokur Kumin American writer and poet Maxine Kumin (born 1925) has published numerous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning volume Up Country: Poems of New England. Highly decorated for her literary works, she has also written several children's books, a short story... Read more
Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy
Leidy, Joseph (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 September 1823; d. Philadelphia, 30 April 1891) biology. A descriptive scientist of unusual range, Leidy made contributions of lasting value in human anatomy, parasitology, protozoology, and paleontology of mammals and reptiles. Leidy was the... Read more
Daniel Guggenheim Daniel Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930) was a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the world during the early twentieth century. He led his family's mining enterprise, which controlled much of the world's metal industry. When Guggenheim retired at the age of 67,... Read more
Edwin Garrigues Boring Edwin Garrigues Boring
BORING, EDWIN GARRIGUES(b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 23 October, 1886; d. 1 July, 1968, Cambridge, Massachusetts),psychology, history of psychology, psychology of scientific creativity and progress, visual illusions.From the 1920s to the 1960s Boring, known as “Mr. Psychology,” was a leading... Read more
S. Weir Mitchell S. Weir Mitchell
MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 February 1829; d. Philadelphia, 4 January 1914) medicine, neurology. Mitchell Read more
Musiq Musiq
Musiq 1977– Singer Soul Immersion Music IQ Aijustvanaseing Juslisen Selected discography Source Mix soul, funk, jazz, hip hop, and gospel, and the result is award winning singer Musiq, whose meteoric rise could almost be a fairy tale. A player in the recent musical explosion of neo-soul, the... Read more

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