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taxon
taxon (pl. taxa), in biology, a term used to denote any group or rank in the classification of organisms, e.g., class, order, family.
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Otto Rank
Otto Rank , 1884-1937, Austrian psychoanalyst; one of Sigmund Freud's first and most valued pupils. He early employed Freudian techniques to clarify the underlying significance of myths, producing the classic paper Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden (1909; tr. Myth of the Birth of the Hero, 19...
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apotheosis
apotheosis , the act of raising a person who has died to the rank of a god. Historically, it was most important during the later Roman Empire. In an emperor's lifetime his genius was worshiped, but after he died he was often solemnly enrolled as one of the gods to be publicly adored. Apotheosis is c...
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Gilles Binchois
Gilles Binchois , c.1400-1460, Flemish composer. From about 1430 until his death Binchois served Philip the Good of Burgundy. His secular chansons are considered his best work. The 15th-century theorist Tinctoris ranked him with Dufay and Dunstable.
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Leopold von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke , 1795-1886, German historian, generally recognized as the father of the modern objective historical school. He applied and elaborated Barthold Niebuhr 's scientific method of historical investigation. Ranke's aim was to reconstruct the unique periods of the past as they actually ...
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Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan , 1800-1874, American naval officer, b. Baltimore. Appointed a midshipman in 1815, Buchanan rose to be a commander in 1841. He was chief adviser to Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft in planning the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and was its first superintendent (1845-47). In...
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coronet
coronet , head attire of a noble of high rank, worn on state occasions. It is inferior to the crown. British peers wear their coronets at the coronation of their sovereign. Although dukes wore coronets to mark their rank by the 14th cent., it was in the reign of Elizabeth I that individual patterns ...
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hidalgo
hidalgo [contraction of Span. hijo de algo =son of something], term designating the lowest degree of Spanish nobility, a rank above the ordinary gentry but below the great lords. The status was granted either directly from the crown ( hidalgo de carta ) or was inherited through birth ( hidalgo de ...
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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko , 1911-85, Soviet political leader. A protégé of Leonid Brezhnev , he rose through Communist party ranks in the 1950s, becoming a full member of the Central Committee (1971) and the Politburo (1978). When Yuri Andropov died (1984), he was elected gene...
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George Bibb Crittenden
George Bibb Crittenden , 1812-80, Confederate general, b. Russellville, Ky.; son of John J. Crittenden and brother of Thomas L. Crittenden. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he left the U.S. army to become a Confederate brigadier general. At Mill Springs (Jan., 1862) he was badly defeated and re...
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