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Ancient World 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 Read more
Fascination 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
Aldous Leonard Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894-1963, English author; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley . Educated at Eton and Oxford, he traveled widely and during the 1920s lived in Italy. He came to the United States in the 1937 and settled in California. On the verge of blindness from the time he was 16, Huxley... Read more
Bobby McFerrin Bobby McFerrin
BOBBY McFERRIN Born: New York, New York, 11 March 1950 Genre: Jazz, Classical Best-selling album since 1990: Circlesongs (1997) Bobby McFerrin uses his entire body and more voice than most singers when he improvises with vocalists and instrumentalists of diverse genres. The son of opera... Read more
Jackie Kay Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay 1961– Writer Unconventional Upbringing Early Works Explored Identity “The Multiplicity of What I Am” Selected Writings Sources British writer Jackie Kay has won acclaim for work that questions assumptions about personal and cultural identity. Her poetry, fiction, and... Read more
Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen
ANDREESEN, MARC The creative mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation, Marc Andreesen (1971–) became a Silicon Valley legend and a multimillionaire well before his thirtieth birthday. The explosive growth of Internet commerce in the last decade of the twentieth century was directly... Read more
David Byrne 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
Erotomania Erotomania
EROTOMANIA Erotomania, the ''delusion of being loved,'' is a morbid fascination that is clinically classified as a form of delusion, accompanied by insistent demands and jealousy. Emil Kraepelin associates it with the paranoid psychoses and Sigmund Freud interprets it psychoanalytically (1911c... Read more
Maury Yeston 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
Norman Lewis 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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