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candelabrum
candelabrum , primarily a support for candles, designed in the form of a turned baluster or a tapered column, also a branched candlestick or a lampstand. Though most used and developed during the Renaissance, the candelabrum originated in Etruria and Rome. Candelabra found in Etruscan and Pompeiian ...
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Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard 1931-, Australian novelist and short-story writer, b. Sydney. Educated in Australia, she has lived in the United States since 1951, working at the United Nations in New York from 1952-62. Both she and her husband, writer Francis Steegmuller (1906-94), were frequent contributors to ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Oak Park, Ill. one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.
Life
The son of a country doctor, Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. During World W...
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Joseph Leon Edel
Joseph Leon Edel (Joseph Leon Edel) , 1907-97, American literary scholar and biographer, b. Pittsburgh, Pa. A professor at New York Univ. (1953-72) and the Univ. of Hawaii (1972-78), he received the 1963 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for part of his definitive biography of Henry James (...
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Harwich
Harwich , town (1991 pop. 17,245), Essex, E central England, on the estuary of the Stour and the Orwell rivers. An important port, Harwich imports foodstuffs, iron and steel, and machinery; it exports chemicals and automobiles. In wartime it has been a naval base. Harwich serves as a port for passen...
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expatriation
expatriation loss of nationality . Such loss is usually, although not necessarily, voluntary. Generally it applies to those persons who have renounced nationality and citizenship in one country to become citizens or subjects of another. According to U.S. law, for example, a citizen who becomes nat...
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Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia , 1907-90, Italian novelist born as Alberto Pincherle; husband of Elsa Morante . Moravia is considered one of the foremost 20th-century Italian novelists. He employs taut prose in realist narratives that shed light on such disturbing issues as the relation of the individual to socie...
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Robert Edward Lee
Robert Edward Lee 1807-70, general in chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War, b. Jan. 19, 1807, at Stratford , Westmoreland co., Va.; son of Henry ( "Light-Horse Harry" ) Lee.
Pre-Civil War Career
After graduating second in his class from West Point in 1829, Lee was ...
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scene design and stage lighting
scene design and stage lighting settings and illumination designed for theatrical productions.
See also drama, Western ; Asian drama ; theater ; directing ; acting .
Ancient Greece
The Greek open-air theater was first a circular, flat orchestra pit located in the hollow betwee...
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cameo
cameo , small relief carving, usually on striated precious or semiprecious stones or on shell. The design, often a portrait head, is commonly cut in the light-colored vein, and the dark one is left as the background. Glass of two colors in layers may be cameo-cut; a famous Roman example is the Port...
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