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Dame Alicia Markova Dame Alicia Markova
Dame Alicia Markova , 1910-2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev 's Ballet Russe in 1924 and, in 1931, the Vic-Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet ), becoming its first prima ballerina in 1933. In 1935 she formed a company with Anton Dolin .... Read more
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Royal Ballet the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden , London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and brilliant performances from its principals. Granted a royal charter in 1956, the company was formed... Read more
Dame Nellie Melba Dame Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba 1861-1931, Australian soprano, whose name originally was Helen Porter Mitchell. After study with Mathilde Marchesi in Paris, she made her operatic debut in Brussels in 1887. Famous for her lyric and coloratura roles, she sang regularly at Covent Garden in London from 1888 until... Read more
Dame Ellen Alicia Terry Dame Ellen Alicia Terry
Dame Ellen Alicia Terry 1848-1928, English actress. Of a prominent theatrical family, she made her debut at eight as Mamillius in Charles Kean's production of The Winter's Tale. She played juvenile roles until her unsuccessful marriage, at 16, to G. F. Watts , the painter. She retired from the... Read more
Dame Barbara Hepworth Dame Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-75, English sculptor. Hepworth's smooth, usually nonfigurative sculptures recall those of Jean Arp. Working in Cornwall, she consistently sought perfection of form and surface texture. She worked primarily in stone, in bronze. Her sculpture is represented in the Tate... Read more
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big Big Apple an informal name for New York City.big bang the explosion of dense matter which according to current cosmological theories marked the origin of the universe. In the beginning a fireball of radiation at extremely high temperature and density, but occupying a tiny volume, is believed to... Read more
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Anne Evans Opera singer Before her retirement from the stage in 2003, Dame Anne Evans was one of opera's best-known interpreters of the formidable Teutonic heroine. For a number of years the soprano was the leading Brünnhilde, the Valkyrie princess from German composer... Read more
George Nauman Shuster George Nauman Shuster
George Nauman Shuster 1894-1977, American educator, b. Lancaster, Wis., grad. Notre Dame (B.A., 1915; M.A., 1920) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He was head of the department of English at Notre Dame (1920-24) and professor of English at St. Joseph's College for Women, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1924-35); at... Read more

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