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Caroline Affair
Caroline Affair In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in Upper Canada (now Ontario), demanding a more democratic government. There was much sympathy for their cause in the United States, and a small steamer, the Caroline, owned by U.S. citizens, carried men and supplies... Read more |
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Long Branch
Long Branch residential city (1990 pop. 28,658), Monmouth co., E central N.J., on the Atlantic coast; settled 1740, inc. 1904. It has clothing, cabinetmaking, and electronics industries. Long Branch, an ocean resort since the early 19th cent., boasts a prestigious array of vacationers. Presidents... Read more |
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Jactitation
JACTITATION Deceitful boasting, a deceptive claim, or a continuing assertion prejudicial to the right of another. One form of jactitation at common law is slander of title—defaming another person's title to real property. Some jurisdictions provide a remedy when the injured par... Read more |
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Anthony Van Dyck
Anthony Van Dyck The Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the court portrait into a vehicle of great expressiveness. In the 17th century the city of Antwerp could boast three eminent artists—Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck... Read more |
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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 |
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William Roy
Roy, William (1911-1977) Pseudonym of William George Holroyd Plowright, a notorious mediumistic fraud in British Spiritualist history. He boasted that he had earned £50,000 by cheating the bereaved and others who attended his fraudulent séances. He even made money out of publishing his... Read more |
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Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters Composer, organist Twentieth-century music, often described as iconoclastic, restless, oblivious to tradition, and passionately dedicated to innovation, also boasts of several great organist-composers who knew how to express the spirit of their time without neglecting tradition.... Read more |
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. 9 West 57th StreetNew York, New York 10019U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 750-8300Fax: (212) 593-2430Web site: http://www.kkr.com Private CompanyFounded: 1976Employees: 100 (est.)Sales: $1.2 billion (1996 est.)NAIC: 523120 Security Brokerage Kohlberg Kravis Roberts... Read more |
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Mark Hellinger
Mark Hellinger Theatre (New York). Few Broadway theatres have such an unusual history as this 51st Street playhouse that opened in 1930 as the spectacular movie palace, the Hollywood Theatre. Thomas W. Lamb designed the baroque structure as the flagship for the Warner Brothers empire and it... Read more |
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