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Jesse Duncan Elliott
Jesse Duncan Elliott 1782-1845, American naval officer, b. Hagerstown, Md. In the War of 1812, he helped capture two British vessels on Lake Erie and was made commander of the lake. He began building the fleet that O. H. Perry was to use after he succeeded (1813) Elliott. In the battle of Lake Erie...
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau) , 1919-2000, prime minister of Canada (1968-79, 1980-84), b. Montreal. He attended the Univ. of Montreal, Harvard, the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and the London School of Economics. A lawyer and law professor ...
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Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard , 1867-1947, French painter, lithographer, and illustrator. In the 1890s he was associated with the Nabis . His delight in familiar views of everyday life was transmitted to canvas with joy and gentle fantasy. Sometimes called an intimist, he explored the play of sunlight in domestic...
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Salish
Salish indigenous people of North America, also known as the Flathead, who in the early 19th cent. inhabited the Bitterroot River valley of W Montana. Their language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). These people never prac...
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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar 1717-90, British general. Appointed (1775) governor of Gibraltar, he was forced to defend it against a combined Spanish and French siege that lasted three and a half years (1779-83). For this memorable defense he was raised to the peerage in...
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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr.
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. 1908-, American composer, b. New York City. Carter is considered by many to be the most important contemporary American composer. He studied with Walter Piston , E. B. Hill, and Gustav Holst at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1932-35). Carter's complex matur...
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Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson 1853-1937, English actor-manager. He was trained by Samuel Phelps, made his first appearance in 1874, and thereafter performed with the Bancrofts (1878), John Hare, and Henry Irving (1882). His portrayal of Hamlet was said to be the greatest of his time. In 1900 he mar...
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver 1864?-1943, American agricultural chemist, b. Diamond, Mo., grad. Iowa State College (now Iowa State Univ.; B.S., 1894; M.A. 1896). Born a slave, he later, as a free man, earned his college degree. In 1896 he joined the staff of Tuskegee Institute as director of the departm...
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Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie), 1912-67, American folk singer, guitarist, and composer, b. Okemah, Okla. Having learned harmonica as a boy and guitar as an adolescent, Guthrie was an itinerant musician and laborer from the age of 13. He was always deeply involved in union and left-wing poli...
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Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. She assisted her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe , in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper. Her first book of poetry was published in 1854. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectu...
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