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baroque (music) baroque (music)
baroque in music, a style that prevailed from the last decades of the 16th cent. to the first decades of the 18th cent. Its beginnings were in the late 16th-century revolt against polyphony that gave rise to the accompanied recitative and to opera . With opera and recitative came the figured... Read more
derring-do derring-do
derring-do action displaying heroic courage. The term comes (in the late 16th century) from late Middle English dorryng do ‘daring to do’, used by Chaucer, and, in a passage by Lydgate based on Chaucer's work, misprinted in 16th-century editions as derrynge do; this was misinterpreted... Read more
reformatory reformatory
reformatory. Until 1908 children under 16 years of age could be imprisoned with adults. As late as 1880 there were over 1,000 children in Irish prisons, including nearly 150 aged under 12. Reformatories for convicted children aged 12 to 16 were established from 1858, while industrial schools for... Read more
Sondershausen Sondershausen
Sondershausen , commune (1994 pop. 22,370), Thuringia, central Germany, near the western foot of Kyffhäuser Mt. It is an industrial city and a potash-mining center. Manufactures include textiles, clothing, and paper. Nearby are petroleum deposits. From the late 16th cent. until 1918... Read more
M-16 Rifle M-16 Rifle
M‐16 Rifle. The prototype for the M‐16 rifle was developed by Armalik Division of Fairchild Corporation in the late 1950s. In 1959, Colt purchased the right to manufacture the rifles. This rifle could fire in either semiautomatic or automatic mode. The South Vietnamese, who favored a... Read more
madrigal madrigal
madrigal name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent. The poetic madrigal is a lyric consisting of one to four strophes of three lines followed by a two-line strophe... Read more
Toungoo Toungoo
Toungoo or Taungu , town, S Myanmar, on the Sittoung River. It is a railway junction. From the late 14th cent. it was the center of one of the three chief states of Myanmar; in the late 16th cent., under the Pagan kings, it preceded Bago as the capital of a unified Burmese kingdom.... Read more
Margaret Sullavan Margaret Sullavan
SULLAVAN, Margaret Nationality:American. Born:Margaret Brooke Sullavan in Norfolk, Virginia, 16 May 1911. Education:Attended Chatham Episcopal Institute; Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia; E. E. Clive Dramatic School, Boston. Family:Married 1) the... Read more
Cossacks Cossacks
Cossacks , Rus. Kazaki, Ukr. Kozaky, peasant-soldiers in Ukraine and in several regions of Russia who, until 1918, held certain privileges in return for rendering military service. The first Cossack companies were formed in the 15th cent., when Ukraine, then part of the unified Polish-Lithuanian... Read more
Dies irae Dies irae
Dies irae [Lat.,=day of wrath], hymn of the Roman Catholic Church. A part of the Requiem Mass, it is a powerful description of the Judgment and a prayer to Jesus for mercy. Suggested in part by Zeph. 1.14-16, it was probably written by Thomas of Celano. In 16th-century polyphonic masses it was... Read more

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