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Meiningen Players
Meiningen Players German theatrical company that toured Europe from 1874 to 1890. The group, inspiring theatrical reforms wherever it performed, was a major influence in the movement toward modern theater. George II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen, who had organized the company, strove to perfect ensemble ...
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Etzel
Etzel , in Germanic mythology, king who corresponds to the historic Attila . In the Nibelungenlied he appears as Etzel and in the Volsungasaga as Atli.
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Dimitrie A. Sturza
Dimitrie A. Sturza , 1833-1914, Romanian statesman, of a prominent Moldavian family. With Ion Bratianu and Constantin Rosetti he helped bring about the abdication of Prince Alexander John Cuza in 1886 and established Carol I as his successor. After Bratianu's death (1891), Sturza was the recog...
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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1815-81, English clergyman and author. As a student at Rugby he was influenced by the liberal views of Thomas Arnold . In 1838 he was elected a fellow of University College, Oxford. He became tutor and select preacher at Oxford and a recognized leader of Broad Church theolog...
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La Mancha
La Mancha , historic region of central Spain, in historic New Castile, comprising Ciudad Real prov. and part of the provinces of Toledo, Albacete, and Cuenca. This high, barren plateau, dotted with windmills, was made famous as the scene of most of the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha in the n...
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British East Africa
British East Africa inclusive historical term for several former British dependencies, especially Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar.
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Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan , 1860-1951, Russian-American journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1882, entered journalism, and helped found the Jewish Daily Forward (1897); as editor in chief after 1902, he made it the most influential Jewish daily in A...
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Winterhalter, Franz Xaver
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (1805–73). German painter. Early in his career he worked mainly as a lithographer, but he became famous as the leading court portrait painter of his time. From 1834 he was based mainly in Paris, but he travelled widely and painted royals from several European countri...
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Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David 1914-92, English food writer, b. Elizabeth Gwynne. Daughter of a wealthy Conservative MP, she cut her culinary eyeteeth in Paris while studying at the Sorbonne, then developed her literary style and taste for fine food while living in the south of France, in Italy, on a Greek island...
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Jesus
Jesus or Jesus Christ , 1st-century Jewish teacher and prophet in whom Christians have traditionally seen the Messiah [Heb.,=annointed one, whence Christ from the Greek] and whom they have characterized as Son of God and as Word or Wisdom of God incarnate. Muslims acknowledge him as a prophe...
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