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Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti , 1901-66, Swiss sculptor and painter; son of the impressionist painter Giovannia Giacometti; b. Stampa. He settled in Paris in 1922, studying with Bourdelle and becoming associated first with the cubists and then the surrealists (see cubism ; surrealism ). His Slaughtered... Read more
dead reckoning dead reckoning
dead reckoning, determining position at sea by advancing the last established position for course and distance run. Before the advent of modern navigational systems dead reckoning was the basis of most offshore navigation. The term ‘estimated position’ is sometimes used for the dead... Read more
Edward Hoagland Edward Hoagland
Hoagland, Edward (1932–), New York City‐born author, graduated from Harvard. His novels include Cat Man (1956), about circus life; The Circle Home (1960), dealing with prizefighters; and The Peacock's Tail (1965), set in a city's slums. Other works include a book about travel in... Read more
Andreas Gryphius Andreas Gryphius
Gryphius, Andreas (1616–64), German baroque dramatist, author of a number of tragedies written in lofty poetic prose with scenes of horror and bloodshed. His heroes included Charles I of England, who had just been beheaded (1649), viewed with strong royalist sympathies. Gryphius was... Read more
cane cane
cane walking stick. Probably used first as a weapon, it gradually took on the symbolism of strength and power and eventually authority and social prestige. Ancient Egyptian rulers carried the symbolic staff, and in ancient Greece, some gods were represented with a staff in hand. In the Middle Ages,... Read more
Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in... Read more
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ordeal ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to choose between disputants. This... Read more
John Capgrave John Capgrave
John Capgrave 1393-1464, English author and Augustinian friar. One of the most learned men of his day, he was a distinguished theologian, philosopher, and historian. His writings, many of which have been lost, include a chronicle of England up to 1417 and the Latin works De illustribus Henricis ... Read more
Hair transplantation Hair transplantation
Hair transplantation Definition Hair transplantation is a surgical procedure used to treat baldness or hair loss (alopecia). Typically, tiny patches of scalp are removed from the back and sides of the head and implanted in the bald spots in the front and top of the... Read more
metaphor metaphor
metaphor [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. Whereas a simile states that A is like B, a metaphor states that A is B or substitutes B for A. Some metaphors are explicit, like Shakespeare's line... Read more

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