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motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ).
Origins
Experiments in photographing mov...
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Katharine
Katharine or Katherine. For some persons thus named, use Catherine.
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Catherine of Valois
Catherine of Valois , 1401-37, queen consort of Henry V of England, daughter of Charles VI of France. Married in 1420, she bore Henry the son who was to become Henry VI. Some years after Henry V's death (1422), Catherine married the Welshman Owen Tudor ; from them the Tudor kings of England were de...
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Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici , 1519-89, queen of France, daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino. She was married (1533) to the duc d'Orléans, later King Henry II. Neglected during the reign of her husband and that of her eldest son, Francis II, she became (1560) regent for her son Charles IX...
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Catherine I
Catherine I 1683?-1727, czarina of Russia (1725-27). Of Livonian peasant origin, Martha Skavronskaya was a domestic when she was captured (1702) by Russian soldiers. As mistress of Aleksandr D. Menshikov she met Czar Peter I (Peter the Great), who made her his mistress. After her conversion fro...
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Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin , 1739-91, Russian field marshal and favorite of Catherine II . He studied at Moscow Univ. and then entered the army. His part in the coup (1762) that made Catherine czarina brought him to her notice. Having distinguished himself in Catherine's first war with the Ott...
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Catherine II
Catherine II or Catherine the Great, 1729-96, czarina of Russia (1762-96).
Rise to Power
A German princess, the daughter of Christian Augustus, prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, she emerged from the obscurity of her relatively modest background in 1744 when Czarina Elizabeth of Russia chose ...
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Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
Born: April 21, 1729Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland)Died: November 6, 1796Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin, Russia) German-born Russian empress
The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. She expanded the Russian Empire, improv...
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Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr 1512-48, sixth queen consort of Henry VIII of England. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, an officeholder at the court, and had been twice widowed before Henry made her his wife in 1543. She exerted a beneficent influence over the aging king, interceding in behalf of Henry's da...
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Charles IX
Charles IX 1550-74, king of France. He succeeded (1560) his brother Francis II under the regency of his mother, Catherine de' Medici . She retained her influence throughout his reign. After 1570, however, Charles was temporarily under the sway of the French Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny . Ca...
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