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Wild West Show
Wild West Shows Sources Colorful Effects.From 1883 to 1916 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show enjoyed a place as the “National Entertainment.” Ownership and the show’s title changed several times, but the show always contained cowboys performing feats of skill and... Read more |
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showboat
showboat In the early 19th cent. entertainment was brought by boat to the pioneers that settled along the western rivers (especially the Mississippi and Ohio) of the United States. At first companies only traveled by boat, performing on land. Later the boats themselves, first paddle boats and... Read more |
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minstrel show
minstrel show stage entertainment by white performers made up as blacks. Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who gave (c.1828) the first solo performance in blackface and introduced the song-and-dance act Jim Crow, is called the "father of American minstrelsy." The first public performance of a minstrel... Read more |
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Walt Kuhn
Walt Kuhn 1880-1949, American painter, b. New York City. At the age of 19 he worked as a cartoonist in San Francisco, contributing later to Life magazine. After travel and study in Europe he devoted himself largely to oil painting. In 1913, in cooperation with his friend Arthur B. Davies, he was... Read more |
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Nicolas-Theodore De Saussure
De Saussure, Nicolas-Théodore Swiss botanist 1767–1845 Nicolas de Saussure was an early pioneer in plant physiology. He was born and lived in Geneva, Switzerland, and later became professor of mineralogy and geology at the Geneva Academy. De Saussure's most famous book was Recherches... Read more |
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Centromere
Centromere During mitosis in a typical plant or animal cell, each chromosome divides longitudinally into two sister chromosomes that eventually separate and travel to opposite poles of the mitotic spindle . At the beginning of mitosis, when the sister chromosomes have split but are still paired,... Read more |
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Jan Swart van Groningen
Swart van Groningen, Jan (b Groningen, c.1500; d ?Antwerp, c.1560). Netherlandish painter, book illustrator, and designer of stained glass. He worked mainly in Antwerp and Gouda, and also travelled to Italy early in his career. His pictures show that he was familiar with the work of Dürer,... Read more |
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Tommy Handley
Handley, Tommy (1892–1949). Comedian. Handley's heyday was the Second World War when, with much entertainment suspended or curtailed, radio predominated. Born in Liverpool, Handley began as a commercial traveller and singer in variety shows, with modest success until the launch of the radio... Read more |
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Kabir
Kabir , 1440-1518, Indian mystic and poet. A Muslim by birth, he was a weaver in Benares (Varanasi) and early in life may have become the disciple of the famous Hindu saint Ramananda. Kabir opposed caste practices, ritual, image-worship, and all forms of religious sectarianism; he taught the... Read more |
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Ancient Sky Rocks and an Unblemished Eros.(asteroids)(Brief...
...The meteorites come from 12 distinct...grains from the fossil meteorites...fossilization--show that all the...asteroid fragments traveling in similar orbits...s. If the fossil meteorite story...of the puzzle come ... |