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	Al Sharpton Al Sharpton To critics, he is known as "Al Charlatan" or "Rev. Soundbite," a rabble-rousing racial ambulance chaser who never met a video camera he didn't like. To others Al Sharpton (born 1955) is a voice for the disenfranchised, an intelligent, articulate activist who knows how to play the... Read more
	The Charlatans The Charlatans Rock group The Charlatans are credited with being the first of San Francisco's psychedelic bands of the 1960s. While steeped in the drug culture of the era, the band's music does not resemble the feedback-drenched, psychedelic blues and electric instrumentals of fellow San... Read more
	Karel Dujardin Karel Dujardin , 1622-78, Dutch painter and etcher. He studied with Berchem and in Italy. Dujardin was particularly successful in painting landscapes with figures and animals, and he made some 51 fine etchings of similar subjects. His Charlatans and Cavalry (both: Louvre) are characteristic... Read more
	dentistry dentistry treatment and care of the teeth and associated oral structures. Dentistry is mainly concerned with tooth decay, disease of the supporting structures, such as the gums, and faulty positioning of the teeth. Like medicine and surgery, it is practiced in specialized fields: oral surgery,... Read more
	Quackery Quackery Quackery is a type of health fraud that promotes products and services that have questionable and unproven scientific bases. Quackery is short for quack-salver, which is derived from two Middle Dutch terms that mean "healing with unguents." However, quacken means "to... Read more
	Fraudulence 281. Fraudulence (See also Forgery, Hoax.) Cagliostro lecherous peasant posing as count. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 335] Confidence Man, the an imposter who gulls passengers on a Mississippi steamboat. [Am. Lit.: Melville The Confidence Man in Magill III, 221] Duke and the King, the a pair of... Read more
	Salvador Dali Salvador Dalí , 1904-89, Spanish painter. At first influenced by futurism , in 1924 Dalí came under the influence of the Italian painter de Chirico and by 1929 he had become a leader of surrealism . His precisely realistic style enhances the obsessively nightmarish effect of many... Read more
	transmutation of elements transmutation of elements conversion of one chemical element into another. The expression has both historical and contemporary significance. The transmutation of certain metals into gold by means of a substance called the philosopher's stone was one of the two most ambitious quests of the... Read more
	Heinrich Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann , 1822-90, German archaeologist, discoverer of the ruins of Troy . He accumulated a fortune in the indigo trade and as a military contractor and retired from business in 1863 to dedicate himself to finding Troy and other Homeric sites. After several years of study and travel, in... Read more