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Etta Moten Barnett
Etta Moten Barnett African American singer and actress Etta Moten Barnett (1901–2004) was perhaps best known for her signature performance in the title role of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. But her long and fascinating life was filled with other remarkable accomplishments, such as... Read more |
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David Byrne
David Byrne Singer, songwriter, composer More than almost any other popular musician, the multitalented David Byrne is at home in many worlds: rock music, "art" music, ballet, film music, photography, and filmmaking. His solo musical work, begun while he was still guitarist and lead vocalist for... Read more |
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Ancient World
ANCIENT WORLD ANCIENT WORLD. During the Renaissance, many Europeans were intensely fascinated with the ancient world, that is, the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. This fascination is quite understandable. The physical remains of these civilizations |
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Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston Composer, lyricist, educator For the Record… Enjoyed Academia Wrote Musicals Full-time Phantom Never Made Broadway Collaborated with Placido Domingo Fascinated by Titanic Sources Composer/lyricist Maury Yeston Read more |
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Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis 1909–1979 Painter Bought Art Books with Gambling Winnings Fascinated by Act of Painting Favored Black Paint Selected paintings Sources Norman Lewis was the first major African-American member of the art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As such, he occupies a... Read more |
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Rose Coghlan
Coghlan, Rose (1851–1932), actress. The sister of Charles Coghlan, the “wide‐eyed, velvet‐voiced, caressing, fascinating, divinely‐smiling” leading lady first came to America in 1871 to play in burlesque with Lydia Thompson and her British blondes. From... Read more |
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Kingis Quair
‘Kingis Quair’. A poem now generally accepted to have been written by James I of Scotland following his return from imprisonment in England (1424), perhaps in the mid-1430s. Written in Scots, with English influences, it is an autobiographical account of the king's incarceration, his... Read more |
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automata
automata Mythical, manlike monsters permeate the folklore of all cultures, and the dream of building an artificial man has long captured the Western imagination — witness Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Such concerns form part of a wider fascination with mechanical toys and gadgets at... Read more |
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Israel Regardie
Regardie, (Francis) Israel (1907-1985) Ritual magician, student of Aleister Crowley, and later a chiropractor who utilized the thought of Wilhelm Reich in his work. He was born in England on November 17, 1907, but emigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. He discovered the... Read more |
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Fascination
Fascination The term generally signifies the charming or enchanting of another by the eyes or the looks; to hold or keep in subjection by charms, by powers of pleasing. It is derived from the Latin fascinare (enchant). A belief in the power of fascination appears to have been prevalent in most ages... Read more |
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