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Anthony Quinn
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John Quinn
Quinn, John (1870–1924). American lawyer, collector, and patron. Quinn was of Irish ancestry and came to collecting through purchasing manuscripts of Irish literary works. He did not start collecting paintings and sculpture until after the turn of the century, but he then rapidly became a... Read more |
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William Kennedy
William Kennedy 1928-, American novelist, b. Albany, N.Y., grad. Siena College, 1949. Brought up in Albany, he worked as a journalist from 1949 to 1970, and began to concentrate on writing fiction in the early 1960s. In evocative prose, with vivid characterizations and acutely observed dialog,... Read more |
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Cristobal Vaca de Castro
Oralloossa; or, the Last of the Incas (1832), a tragedy by Robert Montgomery Bird. [Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia), 5 perf.] Having slain the Inca leader Atahualpa, Francisco Pizarro ( Daniel Redd) feels free to tighten his stranglehold on Peru. But he has not reckoned with Atahualpa's son,... Read more |
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Kevin Smith
SMITH, Kevin Nationality:American. Born:Highlands, New Jersey, 2 August 1970. Education:Attended the New School for Social Research in New York for one semester, and the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia for four months. Family:Married... Read more |
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Rafael Merry del Val
Rafael Merry del Val , 1865-1930, Spanish prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b. London. He was educated for the priesthood and ordained at Rome (1888). He was secretary of the pontifical commission that studied the validity of Anglican orders (1897). He went as apostolic delegate to... Read more |
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Karen Horney
Karen Horney 1885-1952, American psychiatrist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1913. She married Oscar Horney in 1909. Prior to her arrival (1932) in the United States, she was secretary of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, where she taught for 12 years. Associate director (1932-34) of the... Read more |
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Catullus
Catullus (Caius Valerius Catullus) , 84? BC-54? BC, Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well-to-do family, he went c.62 BC to Rome. He fell deeply in love, probably with Clodia, sister of Cicero's opponent Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved,... Read more |
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John Parke
Parke, John (1754–89), playwright and author. A Delaware soldier in the Continental Army, he wrote poetry and a biography of Horace as well as Virginia, A Pastoral Drama on the Birth‐Day of an Illustrious Personage and the Return of Peace, February 11, 1784. In it, Washington appears... Read more |
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112
112 R&B group When four Atlanta, Georgia, high school students accepted an assignment to perform as a quartet at a school function in the 1990s, the event set the stage for their career as one of the major recording groups of the modern R&B era. The boy band, called 112, comprises... Read more |
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