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Harry Callahan Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan Considered to be one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) helped to bring photography into the mainstream of the art world. He was one of the few photographers who worked as well in color as he did in black and white. Born... Read more
Babenberg Babenberg
Babenberg , ruling house of Austria (976-1246). It possibly descended from, or succeeded, a powerful Franconian family of the 9th cent. from whose castle the city of Bamberg probably took its name. Holy Roman Emperor Otto II created Count Leopold of Babenberg margrave of the Eastern March (i.e.,... Read more
Kinshasa Kinshasa
Kinshasa , city (1984 pop. 2,664,309), capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, W Congo, a port on Pool Malebo of the Congo River. It is the Congo's largest city and its administrative, communications, and commercial center. Major industries are food and beverage processing, tanning,... Read more
Leopold Damrosch Leopold Damrosch
Leopold Damrosch 1832-85, German conductor. After taking a degree in medicine, he became (1857) first violinist in the ducal orchestra at Weimar, where he was a friend of Liszt and Wagner. In 1871 he came to New York City, where he founded the Oratorio Society in 1873 and the New York Symphony... Read more
Leopold Auer Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer , 1845-1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher, studied at the conservatories of Budapest and Vienna and with Joseph Joachim in Hanover. He taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1868-1917. Among his pupils were Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, and Nathan Milstein. In 1918 he came to the... Read more
Fats Waller Fats Waller
Fats Waller 1904-43, American jazz musician, singer, and composer, whose original name was Thomas Wright Waller, b. New York City. Waller began playing the piano as a child, and later studied with Carl Bohm and Leopold Godowsky. He became a protégé of James P. Johnson, who gave him... Read more
Henry Brockholst Livingston Henry Brockholst Livingston
Livingston, Henry Brockholst (b. New York City, 25 Nov. 1757; d. Washington, D.C., 18 Mar. 1823; interred Trinity Church churchyard, New York; remains transferred to Green‐Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, in 1844), associate justice, 1807–1823. Although born in New York City, this son of ... Read more
Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret
Levallois‐Perret, Paris/France In 1867 four communities merged to form the city; one was Levallois, named after its founder, Nicolas‐Eugène Levallois (1816–79), and another was Champerret which took its name from the Latin campus petrosus ‘stony ground’.... Read more
Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Bus Boycott
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, against segregation policies on the city's public buses. It was nine years before the civil rights act of 1964 would change the nation forever. But in 1955, when... Read more

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