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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895-1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable acrobatic skills, which he had developed as a child in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed a deadpa...
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clown
clown a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. Clownish figures appear in the...
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swimming
swimming self-propulsion through water, often as a form of recreation or exercise or as a competitive sport. It is mentioned in many of the classics in connection with heroic acts or religious rites. The first book on methods of swimming was Nicolas Wynman's Dialogue Concerning the Art of Swimming...
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comic strip
comic strip combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. The comic strip form can be emplo...
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Western drama
Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles.
Greek Drama
The Western dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise evolution ...
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motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ).
Origins
Experiments in photographing mov...
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University of Ottawa
University of Ottawa at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; bilingual; provincially supported; founded 1848 as the College of Bytown. It became the Univ. of Ottawa in 1866. It has faculties of arts, administration, education, civil and common law, psychology, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, nurs...
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Pembroke
Pembroke , town (1991 pop. 13,997), SE Ont., Canada, NW of Ottawa, on the Ottawa River. It is a lumbering center and also has steel and electric-products factories.
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Ottawa
Ottawa , Native Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Traditionally of the Eastern Woodlands cultural area (see under Natives, North American ), the Ottawa have a well-developed creation myth that sta...
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Montebello
Montebello , village (1991 pop. 1,022), SW Que., Canada, on the Ottawa River NE of Ottawa. It is a summer resort in a lumbering and farming area. The political leader Louis Joseph Papineau made his home there after 1854.
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