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Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle , 1897-1981, American operatic soprano, b. Meriden, Conn. First appearing in vaudeville, she made her debut (1918) at the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite Caruso . She was an outstanding member of that company until her retirement in 1937. Ponselle was... Read more |
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Alberto Savinio
Savinio, Alberto (originally Andrea de Chirico) (1891–1952). Italian musician, writer, painter, and designer, born in Athens, brother of Giorgio de Chirico. He studied music at the Athens Conservatory (graduating when he was only 12) and in Munich under Max Reger. As a composer he... Read more |
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Jack Beeson
Jack Beeson 1921-, American composer, b. Muncie, Ind. Beeson studied at the Eastman School of Music and privately in New York with Béla Bartók. Beginning to teach at Columbia Univ. in 1945, he was named MacDowell Professor of Music in 1967; he retired in 1988 but returned as a member... Read more |
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William Edmond Logan
Logan, William Edmond (b. Montreal, Canada, 20 April 1798; d. Llechryd, Wales, 22 July 1875) geology. Logan Read more |
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Seed ferns
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Robert Edmond Jones
Robert Edmond Jones 1887-1954, American scene designer, b. Milton, N.H. With his design in 1915 for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, a new era of scene design began in the United States. His use of color and dramatic lighting enhanced his imaginative sets. Some of Jones's most notable designs... Read more |
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Whisk fern
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Antonio de Castro Alves
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Edmond H Fischer
Edmond H. Fischer 1920-, American biologist, b. Shanghai, China. As researchers at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs discovered a biological regulatory mechanism, reversible protein phosphorylation, that affects nearly all human cells. For their work, Krebs and... Read more |
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Edmond Hoyle
Edmond Hoyle , 1672-1769, English writer on games, b. London. He codified the rules of whist in his book A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742) and in successive editions of the book he added new material on whist together with treatises on quadrille, piquet, and backgammon. He wrote several... Read more |
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