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Saint Sylvester I
Saint Sylvester I pope (314-35), a Roman; successor of St. Miltiades (St. Melchiades). He was pope under the reign of Emperor Constantine I, who built for him the Lateran and other churches. St. Sylvester sent legates to the First Council of Nicaea and took strong interest in the controversy over ...
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John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller 1839-1937, American industrialist and philanthropist, b. Richford, N.Y. He moved (1853) with his family to a farm near Cleveland and at age 16 went to work as a bookkeeper. Frugal and industrious, Rockefeller became (1859) a partner in a produce business, and four years lat...
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apheresis
apheresis , or hemapheresis , any procedure in which blood is drawn from a donor or patient and a component (platelets, plasma , or white blood cells) is separated out, the remaining blood components being returned to the body. Apheresis allows the donor's blood volume to replenish itself much...
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Donation of Constantine
Donation of Constantine Lat. Constitutum Constantini, forged document, probably drafted in the 8th cent. It purported to be a grant by Roman Emperor Constantine I of great temporal power in Italy and the West to the papacy . Its purpose was apparently to enhance papal territorial claims in Italy...
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Warren Edward Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett , 1930-, American financial executive, b. Omaha, Nebr., studied at Wharton School of Finance (1947-49), grad. Univ. of Nebraska (B.S., 1950), Columbia Univ. (M.S., 1951). After working as an investment salesman and securities analyst, he was partner (1956-69) in the investment ...
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Paul Mellon
Paul Mellon 1907-99, American philanthropist and art collector, b. Pittsburgh. The son of Andrew W. Mellon , he attended Yale (B.A., 1929) and Clare College, Cambridge (A.B., 1931). He worked briefly at Mellon Bank but left (1936) business to devote himself to American cultural interests. Over six...
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Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole , 1617-92, English archaeologist and antiquary. He made exhaustive antiquarian studies, especially The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter (1672) and The Antiquities of Berkshire (3 vol., 1719). In 1677 he donated to the Univ. of Oxford a collection of curio...
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Arlon
Arlon , Du. Aarlen, town (1991 pop. 23,422), capital of Luxembourg prov., SE Belgium, near the border with Luxembourg. Livestock and agricultural products are sold in Arlon, which is also a rail center. A small steel industry is there. A strategic point since Roman times, the town has suffered num...
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Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famou...
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Horace Howard Furness
Horace Howard Furness , 1833-1912, American Shakespearean scholar, b. Philadelphia; son of William Henry Furness. He was the editor of the New Variorum edition of Shakespeare (plays published separately, 1871-1913). His son, Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1865-1930, succeeded him as editor and donate...
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