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Amelita Galli-Curci Amelita Galli-Curci
Amelita Galli-Curci , 1889-1963, Italian coloratura soprano. She studied piano at the Milan Conservatory and meanwhile trained her own voice. From the time she made her debut in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto in 1906 until goiter forced her retirement from opera in 1930, her full and golden voice... Read more
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June Anderson June Anderson
June Anderson An American opera singer, June Anderson (born 1953) specialized in roles from operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini that require bel canto singing, although she sang operas by many other composers. June Anderson was born in 1953 in Boston and raised in Connecticut. When she... Read more
Leonora Galigai Leonora Galigai
Galigai, Leonora (d. 1617) Wife of the Maréchal d'Ancre Concinoc, who was killed by King Louis XIII's men April 24, 1617. The queen's niece and foster sister, she was believed to be a sorceress and was said to have bewitched the queen, becoming one of her favorites. She was found with three... Read more
Cornelia Cornelia
Cornelia , fl. 2d cent. BC, Roman matron, daughter of Scipio Africanus Major. She was the wife of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and mother of the Gracchi . She refused to remarry after her husband's death, devoting herself to her children, whom she educated well and inspired with a sense of civic... Read more
Bette Clair McMurray Bette Clair McMurray
Bette Clair McMurray Betty Clair McMurray (1924-1980) was a typist who invented Liquid Paper. Bette Clair McMurray dropped out of school when she was seventeen because of disciplinary difficulties. In the 1940s there were very few jobs open to young women. She could not type, but she got a... Read more
Lavinia Lavinia
Lavinia ♀ Name, according to Roman mythology, of the wife of Aeneas, and thus the mother of the Roman people. Legend had it that she gave her name to the Latin town of Lavinium, but in fact she was almost certainly invented to explain the place name, which is of pre-Roman origin. She was... Read more
Niobe Niobe
Niobe , in Greek mythology, queen of Thebes, wife of Amphion and daughter of Tantalus. The mother of six sons and six daughters, she boasted of her fruitfulness, saying that Leto had only two children. Apollo and Artemis, angry at this insult to their mother, killed all Niobe's children. Crying... Read more
Lygia Clark Lygia Clark
Clark, Lygia (1920–1988). Brazilian sculptor, painter, and experimental artist, born at Belo Horizonte. She studied in Rio de Janeiro under Roberto Burle Marx and then in Paris, 1950–2, under Léger. After her return to Brazil she became a leading figure in the country's vogue for... Read more
Ruth Rendell Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell Ruth Rendell (born 1930) was one of the world's most skillful and popular writers of mysteries and suspense thrillers. Ruth Grasemann was born on February 17, 1930, in London, England, and was educated at Laughton High School in Essex. She worked as a newspaper reporter and... Read more

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