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James Bruce
James Bruce 1730-94, Scottish explorer in Africa. He explored Roman ruins in N Africa (1755) from Tunis to Tripoli and visited Crete, Rhodes, and Asia Minor. In 1768 he traveled down the Red Sea as far as the straits of Bab el Mandeb. From Massawa he struck inland for Gondar, then the capital of Et... Read more
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1925-2006, modern Indonesia's preeminent writer of fiction, b. Blora, Java. The son of a nationalist headmaster, he was a longtime journalist, involved left-wing politics from the 1940s until his death. Pramoedya, who wrote in Bahasa Indonesia, composed his first novel, The F... Read more
Black Muslims
Black Muslims African-American religious movement in the United States, split since the late 1970s into the American Society of Muslims and the Nation of Islam. The original group was founded (1930) in Detroit by Wali Farad (or W. D. Fard), whom his followers believed to be "Allah in person." W... Read more
Peyton Randolph
Peyton Randolph American patriot Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), president of the first Continental Congress, was instrumental in securing independence for the United States of America. At the time of Peyton Randolph's birth, the future United States of America was an assortment of 13 separate ... Read more
Myanmar
Myanmar or Burma , officially Union of Myanmar, republic (2005 est. pop. 42,909,000), 261,789 sq mi (678,033 sq km), SE Asia. It is bounded on the west by Bangladesh, India, and the Bay of Bengal; on the north and northeast by China; on the east by Laos and Thailand; and on the south by the Anda... Read more
human evolution
human evolution theory of the origins of the human species, Homo sapiens. Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings of paleontology , anthropology , and genetics , and involves the process of natural selection (see Darwinism ). Although gaps in the fossil reco... Read more
Robert Walker
Robert Walker d. 1658?, English painter, a follower of Van Dyck and favorite portraitist of Oliver Cromwell. His portraits of Cromwell and his family and followers are convincing studies of Puritan temperament. Examples are in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Metropolitan Museum. ... Read more
Bethabara
Bethabara , place, on the Jordan, traditionally located at a ford just above the Dead Sea, where in the New Testament John was baptizing when Jesus came to him. RSV: Bethany, following some ancient texts. ... Read more
cavalier
cavalier , in general, an armed horseman. In the English civil war the supporters of Charles I were called Cavaliers in contradistinction to the Roundheads , the followers of Parliament. The royalists used the designation until it was replaced by Tory . ... Read more
Cawdor
Cawdor , village, Highland, NE Scotland, SW of Nairn. Cawdor Castle, the earliest remaining piece dating from 1454, was represented by Shakespeare , following tradition, as the scene of the slaying (1040) of Duncan by Macbeth . ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Following in the footsteps of"

Haunting
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...told the story of ghostly footsteps at Samarai, in the house...from which the sound of the footsteps came. Perhaps the most ancient...turning his head slowly as if following the movements of some person...night, Miss Moore had heard footsteps crossing the room, as of...
Daley, Richard M.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...young Daley followed in his father's footsteps. He was an alter boy at the Nativity...s re-election in 1971 and 1975. Following the completion of law school, the young...would step directly into his father's footsteps. However, he did not. In 1980 Daley...
Juzo Itami
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...followed in his father's footsteps and became known in the world...follow in his famous father's footsteps. As a young man, he spent...also an international hit following its release in 1987. In it...attitude toward authority. The following year, Itami wrote and directed...
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...School, Harvard College (Class of 1904), and Columbia Law School. Having as a young adult fantasized about following in the footsteps of his distant cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt , he gained a closer relationship with his idol in 1905...
Fairs, County and State
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...enjoyed. In the 1990s, 125 million Americans annually attended agricultural fairs. Some were farmers, following in Elkanah Watson's footsteps and bent on self‐improvement, but most were city folk or suburbanites who came to the fair...
Collier, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...juvenile company of H. M. S. Pinafore in 1879 after running away from home when his actor parents balked at his following in their footsteps. In 1883 Collier joined Augustin Daly 's ensemble, where for the next five years he played a number of minor...
Hopper, de Wolf (William D'Wolf Hopper)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...that traced its ancestry back to colonial America, he was born in New York and raised in expectation of following in his father's footsteps as a lawyer. Instead he used his inheritance to form his own short‐lived theatrical company...
John Maurice Clark
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Clark, a founder and the third president of the American Economic Association. John Maurice Clark, following in his father's footsteps, was the association's thirty-seventh president. The senior Clark had a pronounced influence on...
Katherine Dunham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...she was not aware of the discrimination at first, because she was just glad to be free of her father. Following in her brother's footsteps, Dunham enrolled in the University of Chicago, where she earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in...
Dwight David Eisenhower
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in infancy; the other, John, followed in his father's footsteps and went to West Point, later resigning from the Army to...1926 from the Army's Command and General Staff School. Following graduation from the Army War College he served in the office...

Dictionary entries related to "Following in the footsteps of"

Wilco
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...Drummer," "California Stars" Following the demise of beloved country...followed closely in the footsteps of the Uncle Tupelo style...Tweedy seemed more interested in following in the footsteps of Beach Boys' studio wizard...
Judex
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...definitively outclassed by the Americans and that we are not henceforward going to be reduced always to be following in others' footsteps." Judex, the film's avenging hero, is in fact the Comte de Trémeuse, the son of a Corsican...
Lake, Veronica
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dolores) 1952 Stronghold (Sekeley) (as Mary Stevens) 1966 Footsteps in the Snow (Green) 1973 Flesh Feast (Time for Terror...industrial accidents. Veronica Lake emerged in 1938 when, following an unsuccessful screen test at MGM, her film clip reached...
Rusted Root
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...but the neo-hippie sextet enjoys a secure following among jam-band connoisseurs. Michael Glabicki...African and Latin rhythms, Rusted Root was actually following in the footsteps of generations of fusionists who believe that music...
Subversion, Communist
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...first authorized as a special committee in 1938, following in the footsteps of earlier congressional inquiries in 1919 and 1930...prosecuted. The case continued to fester; in 1950, following the triumph of Chinese communism, Senator Joseph...
Agnosticism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...important debt, and of other philosophers in the Scottish tradition. These included Reid and Stewart, in whose footsteps Hamilton was following, as well as Hamilton's principal philosophical antagonist, the empiricist John Stuart Mill (1806...
Perrault, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Charles (1628 – 1703), a critic and the author of the Mother Goose fairy tales. Pierre, following in his father ’ s footsteps, became a lawyer and joined the government service as an administrator. He bought the post of receiver...
Plate, Ludwig Hermann
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...maintained, when they supported natural selection with auxiliary theories, that they were actually following in Darwin ’ s footsteps — for had not Darwin himself admitted some influence of external conditions upon heredity...
Grid
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...would be impossible to detach any of the following from the whole: sexual agitation, sexual...the vertical axis of the grid are the following: A) beta-elements; B) alpha-elements...other human sciences. Walking in the footsteps of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Mach...
Russia/Ussr
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Ivan Ermakov. These organizations shared offices in a beautifully appointed Art Nouveau mansion in Moscow. Following in the footsteps of Tatiana Rosenthal, who in 1911 had introduced psychoanalysis to St. Petersburg, Vera Schmidt (1889...

Thesaurus entries related to "Following in the footsteps of"

imitate
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...from someone's book, tread in the steps of, walk in the footsteps of, echo.   2. comics imitating celebrities | imitate...would more accurately be said to mimic her. Imitate implies following something as an example or model (he imitated the playing...

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Tracing famous footsteps adds focus to travel
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/17/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...my favorite Hawaiian island. Following in his footsteps, I was treated to a fascinating...futile effort to visit them all. Following in some historical figure...garments are put up for sale. Following footsteps can take many forms...
Footsteps in history; Blackstone Valley attractions in the spotlight 24 weekends.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/17/2007; 700+ words ; ...Bonnie Russell The third annual Footsteps in History program, the year...said Lorraine Provencher, Footsteps in History coordinator, in...and more, she said. The Footsteps in History program, now in...Valley events include the following: June 17: Uxbridge: A play...
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK - GREATEST HITS 2 Tells the Story of Cat Stevens' Spiritual Journey Through His Songs, From 'The Hurt' and 'The Wind' To 'On The Road To Find Out'.
PR Newswire; 6/11/2003; 700+ words ; ...as Cat Stevens' 1984 album FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK - GREATEST HITS...earned notice, and a reissued FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK - GREATEST HITS...When originally released, FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK - GREATEST HITS...THE FIRECAT, released the following year, came "The Wind" and...
Dance; Washington Ballet's Sure `Footsteps'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/13/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...Des Pas sur la neige" ("Footsteps on the Snow") - the exquisite...bromide that less is more. "Footsteps" was the evening's briefest...workable degrees of ambiguity. "Footsteps" is ostensibly a depiction...in hand, with John Goding following a few feet behind - gets its...
Andrew P. Scheil, Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Andrew P. Scheil, Footsteps of Israel." Understanding...Andrew P. Scheil's The Footsteps of Israelis then a timely...history of anti-Semitism. The Footsteps of Israelis beautifully presented...Scheil's remit is capacious: following a characteristically eloquent...
Following painful FOOTSTEPS
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...additions to other similar clay shoes in FOOTSTEPS -- a current exhibition by Vancouver...Manitoba for many years, noted that FOOTSTEPS arose out of an earlier exhibition...the shoe." That request evolved into FOOTSTEPS . "Close to 800 people responded from...
Standing Bear's Footsteps Supported By SMSC
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 9/4/2008; 582 words ; ...American tribe, issued the following news release: The story of...documentary Standing Bear's Footsteps. The Shakopee Mdewakanton...man." Standing Bear's Footsteps chronicles his journey and...one hour Standing Bear's Footsteps was written and produced by...
Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 2/24/1986; ; 700+ words ; Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer...intense involvement with his subjects in Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer...someone's path through the past, a following of footsteps. You would never catch them...
Footsteps Of Civil Rights Leaders Placed In Historic Site
Newspaper article from: Atlanta Inquirer; 8/27/2005; 552 words ; ...Atlanta Inquirer 08-27-2005 Footsteps of civil rights icons, such...The shoes used to create the footsteps will also be on display during...future placements of worthy footsteps. "We are looking forward...as the 2005 Walk of Fame. Following the induction of the honorees...
Following the footsteps of Alexander the Great.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 8/15/2005; 700+ words ; ...travellers will now be able to follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, in the company...Turkey to retrace Alexander the Great's footsteps from Troy to the battlefield of Issus...who worked on the TV series In The Footsteps of Alexander. 'It was an amazing feeling...