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Medusa Medusa
Medusa , in Greek mythology, most famous of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. She was once a beautiful woman, but she offended Athena, who changed her hair into snakes and made her face so hideous that all who looked at her were turned to stone. When Medusa was with child by Poseidon, Perseus... Read more
Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon 1737-94, English historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His childhood was sickly, and he had little formal education but read enormously and omnivorously. He went at the age of 15 to Oxford, but was forced to leave because of his conversion to... Read more
Indra Indra
Indra Indra was the ruler of the gods in early Hinduism. The son of the sky and the earth, he is a warrior god who protects people and animals and provides rain to water the land. In later Hindu texts Indra loses some of his power and his warrior characteristics. Other ... Read more
Praxiteles Praxiteles
Praxiteles , fl. c.370-c.330 BC, famous Attic sculptor, probably the son of Cephisodotus . His Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, found in the Heraeum, Olympia, in 1877, is the only example of an undisputed extant original by any of the greatest ancient masters. It was found in the same place where... Read more
Richard Bergh Richard Bergh
Bergh, Richard (b Stockholm, 28 Dec. 1858; d Saltsjö-Storängen, nr. Stockholm, 29 Jan. 1919). Swedish painter, writer, and art administrator, son of a landscape painter, Edvard Berghe (1828–80). From 1878 to 1881 he studied at the Academy in Stockholm, where his father was a... Read more
James Douglas 2d earl of Douglas and Mar James Douglas 2d earl of Douglas and Mar
James Douglas, 2d earl of Douglas and Mar 1358?-1388, Scottish nobleman; son of William Douglas, 1st earl of Douglas and Mar. In 1373 he married Isabel Stuart, daughter of Robert II. With the aid of a French contingent he made raids on the English border in 1385. In the famous battle of Otterburn... Read more
Hatshepsut Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut , d. 1458 BC, ruler of ancient Egypt, of the XVIII dynasty; eldest daughter of Thutmose I . She managed to rule Egypt by relegating her husband (and younger half-brother), Thutmose II (see under Thutmose I ), to the background during his brief reign. After his death, she continued in... Read more
Richard Doyle Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle 1824-83, English caricaturist, water colorist, and illustrator. He was the son and pupil of John Doyle, a popular caricaturist. His Journal (British Mus.), a book of sketches done at the age 15, shows his extraordinary precocity. He worked on the staff of Punch (1843-50), and drew... Read more
marble marble
marble metamorphic rock composed wholly or in large part of calcite or dolomite crystals, the crystalline texture being the result of metamorphism of limestone by heat and pressure. The term marble is loosely applied to any limestone or dolomite that takes a good polish and is otherwise... Read more
Thomas Randolph (poet) Thomas Randolph (poet)
Thomas Randolph 1605-35, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1632, he went to London where he became a disciple of Ben Jonson. His best-known poems are "A Gratulatory to Ben Jonson" and "On the Death of a Nightingale." Amyntas (1631), The Muses' Looking-Glass ... Read more

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