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Conflux Conflux
Conflux a flowing together, or into each other, as rivers or their tributaries; a confluence. Examples: conflux of company, 1647; of eternities, 1831; of ill humours, 1658; of misery, 1779; of the mob, 1710; of riches, 1694; of second causes, 1654; of several populations, 1875; of several springs,... Read more
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz , 1867-1945, German graphic artist and sculptor. She first gained a reputation with her illustrations for Hauptmann's Weavers and Zola's Germinal. Kollwitz became known for her superb woodcuts and lithographs. An ardent socialist and pacifist, she produced stark and... Read more
Valley Forge Valley Forge
Valley Forge on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777-June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. The winter was severe, food and clothing was inadequate, and illness... Read more
Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko
Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko Considered the greatest poet of Ukraine and the founder of modern Ukrainian literature, Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) rose from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of the 19th-century St. Petersburg literary world. His writings draw upon the peasant traditions of his... Read more
Ben Tillett Ben Tillett
Tillett, Ben (1860–1943). Trade unionist. A Bristol man, Tillett spent his early years in the navy and merchant marine. Coming to the London docks he was shocked at the misery and poverty of casual labour and organized a docker's union. The great dockers' strike of 1889, for a basic wage of... Read more
Ned Buntline Ned Buntline
Ned Buntline , pseud. of Edward Zane Carroll Judson, 1823-86, American adventurer and writer. In 1845 he founded in Nashville Ned Buntline's Own, a sensational magazine. After being lynched (1846) for a murder, but secretly cut down alive and released, he went to New York City, where he... Read more
Herman Heijermans Herman Heijermans
Heijermans, Herman (1864–1924), Dutch dramatist, and the first since Vondel to become well known outside his own country. Under the influence of the new naturalism, he set out to depict the hypocrisy of contemporary bourgeois morality and the miseries of racial minorities and the working... Read more
Bach Bach
Bach , German family of distinguished musicians who flourished from the 16th through the 18th cent., its most renowned member being Johann Sebastian Bach (see separate article). Johannes or Hans Bach, c.1550-1626, was a Thuringian carpetweaver and a musical performer at festivals. His sons and... Read more
Buddha Buddha
Buddha [Skt.,=the enlightened One], usual title given to the founder of Buddhism . He is also called the Tathagata [he who has come thus], Bhagavat [the Lord], and Sugata [well-gone]. He probably lived from 563 to 483 BC The story of his life is overlaid with legend, the earliest written accounts... Read more
Jacques Callot Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot , c.1592-1635, French etcher and engraver, b. Nancy. Callot was an influential innovator and a brilliant observer of his time. In 1612 he went to Florence where he learned to etch and where he developed and introduced the use of a hard varnish ground that allowed both greater... Read more

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