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Ismael Montes
Ismael Montes Bolivian statesman, lawyer, and military officer Ismael Montes (1861–1933) served two terms as President of Bolivia (1904–09 and 1913–17). A member of the country's Liberal Party, Montes ran an administration of political and social reform. He was instrumental... Read more |
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Benedict
Benedict ♂ From Church Latin benedictus ‘blessed’. This was the name of the saint (c.480–c.550) who composed the Benedictine rule of Christian monastic life that is still followed in essence by all Western orders. He was born near Spoleto in Umbria, central Italy. After... Read more |
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William Sherley Williams
William Sherley Williams 1787-1849, American trader and trapper, known as Old Bill Williams, b. Rutherford co., N.C. Much of his early life was spent in Missouri, where he was a traveling preacher. Becoming (c.1822) an independent trapper, he accompanied (1825-26) a surveying party on the Santa Fe... Read more |
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Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino , monastery, in Latium, central Italy, E of the Rapido River. Situated on a hill (1,674 ft/510 m) overlooking Cassino, it was founded c.529 by St. Benedict of Nursia, whose rule became that of all Benedictine houses in the world. Monte Cassino was throughout the centuries one of the... Read more |
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Cevennes
Cévennes , mountain range, S France, bordering the Massif Central on the southeast. The Cévennes proper occupy the central section of a mountainous arc (average height 3,000 ft/910 m), swinging generally NE from the Montagne Noire (NE of Toulouse) to Mont Pilat (SW of Lyons). Between... Read more |
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La Monte Thornton Young
LaMonte Young Composer, saxophonist, pianist For the Record… Learned the Blues from Jazz Musicians Advan... Read more |
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El Monte
El Monte , city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, chemicals, and plastic and metal products. The population has increased by more... Read more |
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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin 1880-1973, American pacifist, b. Missoula, Mont. She was active in social work and campaigned for woman suffrage. A Republican, she was the first woman in the United States to serve (1917-19) in Congress and also was (1941-43) a member of the 77th Congress. She voted against the... Read more |
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Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma , c.1477-1549, Sienese painter, whose real name was Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Born in Vercelli, Piedmont, he went to Rome c.1508. Commissioned by Pope Julius II, he painted frescoes in the Camera della Segnatura in the Vatican. Raphael's frescoes afterward replaced most of his work there.... Read more |
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The Marble Faun
Marble Faun, The, romance by Hawthorne, published in 1860. It was issued in England as Transformation.Kenyon, an American sculptor, Hilda, a New England girl, and the mysterious Miriam are friends among the art students in Rome. They become acquainted with Donatello, Count of Monte Beni, a handsome... Read more |
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Aldrich, Richard S.
...and later produced a successful revival of Pygmalion (1945) for her. Goodbye, My Fancy (1948), The Moon Is Blue (1951), and The Love of Four Colonels (1953) were all postwar successes of his, as were highly praised revivals of Caesar... |
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Colwin, Laurie E.
...outside of marriage. Her novels are Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object (1975), Happy All the Time (1978), Family Happiness (1982), Goodbye Without Leaving (1990), and the posthumously published A Big Storm Knocked It Over (1993... |
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Catcher in the Rye, The
...expelled, for New York City. Having said goodbye to his conceited athletic roommate Stradlater...he says, “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody... |
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Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw
...dealing with the sensibility of the homosexual artist, include All the Conspirators (1928) and Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935...The musical Cabaret (1966) was based on a short story from Goodbye to Berlin (1939). He collaborated on three plays with W... |
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Zugsmith, Leane
...1903–69), Kentucky‐born proletarian author, whose novels include All Victories Are Alike (1929), the story of a newspaper columnist's loss of ideals; Goodbye and Tomorrow (1931), about a romantic spinster who seeks happiness by patronizing... |
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Chandler, Raymond
...works are The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1954), all of which were made into very popular films. An incomplete manuscript involving his figure Marlowe was rewritten... |
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Graves, Robert von Ranke
...Fairies and Fusiliers (1917), relates his experiences in World War I. After writing an autobiographical farce, Goodbye To All That (1929), Graves emigrated to Majorca. He is best known for the historical novels I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius... |
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Dewhurst, Colleen
...in plays by Albee—The Ballad of the Sad Café (1963), All Over (1971), and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia...outstanding performances were in Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye (1969), Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan (1970), as... |
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Graves, Robert (von Ranke)
...and works for children, and published many free translations from various languages. His powerful autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), is an outstanding example of the new freedom and passionate disillusion of the post-war generation... |
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HIGHLAND ENGLISH
...m a widow for ten years now; All my life I never went to the mainland...cleaned it up. (6) Doesn't in all persons and numbers: I doesn't know...Mummy!, beannachd leat/leibh goodbye, oidhche mhath good night, tapadh...good health, big health (all three known ... |
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Nyman, Michael
...Wife; Lady in the Red Hat (all 1985); Taking a Line for a...and Tides; Wedding Tango (all 1988); Book Depository (1989...Curve, sop., sax., pf. (all 1990); Masque Arias, brass quintet (1991); Goodbye Frankie, Goodbye Benny, vn... |
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reach
...fellow sufferer. 2. [tr.] arrive at; get as far as: “Goodbye,” she said as they reached the door the show is due to reach...by telephone or other means: I've been trying to reach you all morning. ∎ (of a broadcast or other communication) be received... |
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whisper
...for the sake of privacy: Alison was whispering in his ear | [tr.] he managed to whisper a faint goodbye | [with direct speech] “Are you all right?” he whispered. ∎ poetic/lit. (of leaves, wind, or water) rustle or murmur softly... |
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musical comedy
...Superstar (1970), Evita (1976, a life of Eva Peron) (all with Tim Rice), Cats (1981, based on T. S. Eliot poems...Quixote), Kander's Cabaret (1966, based on Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin), MacDermot's Hair (1967, a ‘rock’ musical... |
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report
...or as ready to do something: he was given three days to say goodbye to his family and report for active duty. 3. [intr.] (report...gunfire. 3. an employee who is supervised by another employee: all of his reports are twenty-somethings with no concept of proper... |
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round
...the rounds of her family to say goodbye he made the rounds of the city...round. ∎ an act of playing all the holes in a golf course once...a set of drinks bought for all the members of a group, typically...sculpture) standing free with all sides shown, rather ... |
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as
...would if you were having guests [as adv.] she kissed him goodbye, as usual. ∎ used to add or interject a comment relating to the statement of a fact: as you can see, I didn't go after all. 3. because; since: I must stop now as I have to go out... |
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goodbye
goodbye • exclamation Goodbye! See you all next year!synonyms: farewell, adieu, au revoir...informal toodle-oo.antonym: hello. • noun (often goodbyes) we said our goodbyes at the doorsynonyms: parting, leave-taking, send... |
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part
...synonyms: leave, take one's leave, say goodbye/farewell, say one's goodbyes/farewells, go one's (separate) ways...very) nearly, almost, just about, all but.antonym: completely. phrases...informal get in on the act. take part in all students must take part in ... |
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Goodbye Tuscaloosa.(three poems)(Poem)
Goodbye Rufus and Ditzy, Goodbye...Charlie." Goodbye All-American Storage...the pure devotion. Goodbye to the Crimson Tide...the pure devotion. Goodbye Mr. Vaughn of the...a labial among y'all, let it be heard ... |
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Nostalgia Trip; Goodbye, Hello
...particularly bloody shave. So goodbye old Bush regime, hello...expectant, childlike eyes to all that is yet to come...President Bush, for all the first-term memories...regressive sales tax. Goodbye, $413 billion deficits...In fact, goodbye ... |
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SAYING GOODBYE: THE HOW-TO GUIDE TIPS TO HELP PARENTS EASE THE...
...Mark A. Hicks, ``I Hate Goodbyes!'' tells the story of a...parents or grandparents say goodbye to her. Katie sings in a very...and she wiggles her tooth - all in a way designed to show that...however, Katie discovers that all the goodbyes ... |
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Saying Goodbye With Love
...by one, my wife and I said goodbye to our three children. They...service at which we tried to say goodbye to a life that never really...Not when it comes to saying goodbye. I've had lots of practice...no. I'm hanging on to it. All that dead weight - it's ... |
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Goodbye,. (poem)
Goodbye, no-brainer who married Goodbye, rider of horse of sexual no's, Goodbye, man whose face leaned between thighs and licked...out the ghost in me. Goodbye, to yourself, and all letters whose first rung is "l" instead of the... |
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The long goodbye
...however, is how long these goodbyes have taken. I expected a sprint of goodbyes, one short burst of leaving...however, is a marathon of goodbyes. I have been saying goodbye to my friends, family, and...thank you and farewell to all of the ... |
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The hardest act in life is saying goodbye
...happy. So maybe I was wrong. Goodbyes are hard but they can also...how my colleagues and I said goodbye to the managing director of...saying their own personal goodbye. I thought it was the best...present ever. So yes, some goodbyes are short and sharp ... |
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Commentary: Favorite goodbyes for 2004
...goodbyes. We'll say goodbye to 2004 tonight, of...reason so many of us hate goodbyes. Shakespeare's Romeo...And for my favorite goodbye I picked the penultimate...you said. That's all you ever meant to me...they're hugging, ... |
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COLUMN: Thinking before it's time to say goodbye
...hold as I found myself saying goodbye to two of the most significant...class the next night to her "goodbye dinner," it was with incredible apprehension that I waved goodbye to one of my most loyal friends...as the bad times.While we all need that person who ... |
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A Place for Goodbyes
...Now it's time for us to say goodbye again to baseball at RFK. Of course, this goodbye can be taken with a smile...As a rule, our baseball goodbyes in Washington are not this easy. In 1960, we said goodbye to the original Senators...that season, the oddest of ... |
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