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Wallis Warfield Duchess of Windsor Simpson
Wallis Simpson The romance between Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) and the Duke of Windsor caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of the British monarchy. She was a twice-divorced American, and "David," as she called the man who briefly reigned as King Edward VIII, was forced to abdicate... Read more |
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. Cultural centre founded by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read in 1947 to encourage new developments in the arts and cater for some of the functions fulfilled by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films, concerts,... Read more |
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Sir Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Read 1893-1968, English poet and critic. His studies at the Univ. of Leeds were interrupted by World War I, in which he served with a Yorkshire regiment. After the war he completed his education. His first volume of poems, Naked Warriors (1919), treats the horrors of war. An advocate... Read more |
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William Herbert 3d earl of Pembroke
William Herbert Pembroke, 3d earl of 1580-1630, English courtier and patron of letters. Son of Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke , and nephew of Sir Philip Sidney, he was tutored by the poet Samuel Daniel and succeeded his father to the earldom in 1601. Prominent at court, he became (1611) a... Read more |
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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow , 1811-78, German writer. He entered journalism in 1831 and became a leader of the antiromantic and nationally conscious literary movement known as Young Germany. For his Wally die Zweiflerin [Wally the doubter] (1835), an attack on marriage and religious orthodoxy, he was... Read more |
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Sir John Eliot
Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right ,... Read more |
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Sir Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer , English engineer and inventor, b. Charleton, Hertfordshire. He made experiments to obtain stronger material for gun manufacture and discovered the basic principle of the Bessemer process . In 1856 he read before the British Association at Cheltenham his important paper "The... Read more |
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Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead term used to describe Egyptian funerary literature. The texts consist of charms, spells, and formulas for use by the deceased in the afterworld and contain many of the basic ideas of Egyptian religion . At first inscribed on the stone sarcophagi, the texts were later written on... Read more |
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