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Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899,... Read more |
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Work hours
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) Roger K. Newman The Fair Labor Standards Act regulates wages and hours in the workplace. Efforts to enact legislation limiting the number of hours a person could work in a week began early in the nineteenth century, but Congress was not able to adopt the... Read more |
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Turner Prize
Turner Prize. An annual prize (originally £10,000, now £20,000) for British achievement in the visual arts, named after the great English painter J. M. W. Turner. It was established in 1984 by the Patrons of New Art, a body founded two years earlier (as part of the Friends of the Tate... Read more |
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Sewanee Review
Sewanee Review (1892– ),literary quarterly published by the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; founded by William Peterfield Trent (1862–1932) while he was a professor of English there (1888–1900). It is now the oldest critical and literary quarterly in the U.S. and,... Read more |
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Thomas Newman
NEWMAN, Thomas 1955– PERSONAL Full name, Thomas Montgomery Newman; born October 20, 1955, in Los Angeles, CA; son of Alfred Newman (a film composer); brother of David Newman (a... Read more |
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John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman 1801-90, English churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the founders of the Oxford movement , b. London. Early Life and Works He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and held a fellowship at Oriel College, where he became tutor (1826) after his ordination (1824)... Read more |
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autobiography
autobiography in its modern form may be taken as writing that purposefully and self-consciously provides an account of the author's life and incorporates feeling and introspection as well as empirical detail. In this sense, autobiographies are infrequent in English much before 1800. Although there... Read more |
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Lemuria
Lemuria Lemuria, the lost continent of the Pacific, has been discussed in nineteenth-and twentieth-century occult literature as the Pacific equivalent of Atlantis. It is distinct, however, in that it is a completely modern invention, having originated in the middle of the nineteenth century as a... Read more |
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