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Portishead
Portishead Trip-hop band For the Record… Selected discography Sources The Bristol band Portishead has been credited with launching an entirely new genre in alternative musicȁ... Read more |
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Manned spacecraft
Spacecraft, manned Since 1961, hundreds of men and women from more than a dozen countries have traveled in space. Until the 1980s, however, most of those people came from the United States and the former Soviet Union. The Soviets were the first to launch an unmanned satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.... Read more |
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Virgil I. Grissom
Virgil Ivan Grissom Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom (1926–1967) became the second American to travel into space when the National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Liberty Bell 7 on July 21, 1961. Air Force officer Virgil "Gus" Grissom was one of the National... Read more |
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Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer1964— Comedian, actor A major television star of the late 1990s and a member of the phenomenally successful Original Kings of Comedy tour, the man known as Cedric the Entertainer had built the beginnings of his own comedic industry by the early 2000s. A commercial aired... Read more |
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Spatialism
Spatialism (or Spazialismo). A movement launched by Lucio Fontana in Milan in 1947, in which he grandiosely intended to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and time into a new type of art. The main ideas of the movement were anticipated in his Manifesto Blanco (White Manifesto) published in... Read more |
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Pierre Balmain
BALMAIN, Pierre French designer Born:Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, 18 May 1914. Education:Studied architecture, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933-34. Military Service:French Air Force, 1936-38, French Army Pioneer Corps, 1939-40. ... Read more |
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America West Holdings Corp
America West Holdings Corporation 4000 East Sky Harbor BoulevardPhoenix, Arizona 85034U.S.A.Telephone: (480) 693-0800Fax: (480) 693-5546Web site: http://www.americawest.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1981Employees: 12,200Sales: $2.2 billion (1999)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: AWANAIC:... Read more |
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Pedro de Luna
Pedro de Luna , 1328?-1423?, Aragonese churchman, antipope (1394-1417) with the name Benedict XIII. He was a doctor of canon law and as cardinal (1375) became an outstanding member of the Curia Romana. He supported the election of Urban VI , but later switched his allegiance to Robert of Geneva ,... Read more |
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Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley 1834-1906, American scientist, b. Roxbury, Mass., received only a high school education but continued his studies in science in Boston libraries. He became, in 1866, professor of physics at the Western Univ. of Pennsylvania (now the Univ. of Pittsburgh) and director of the... Read more |
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