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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , 1840-1922, English poet and political writer. After retiring c.1872 from the diplomatic service, he began a career of travel and political crusading. He wrote several works championing Indian, Egyptian, and Irish independence. His poetry, noted for its emotional force,... Read more
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John Bracken 1883-1969, Canadian political leader, b. Ontario. A noted agricultural expert, he was premier of Manitoba for 20 years (1922-42). In 1942 he was chosen to lead Canada's Conservative party, which he renamed Progressive Conservative. Elected in 1945 to the Canadian House of Commons, he... Read more
Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide , c.1170-c.1230, German minnesinger of noble birth, probably the finest lyric poet of medieval Germany. He wandered from court to court singing songs for which he wrote both words and music. In addition he was noted for his Sprüche, or maxims, which were frequently... Read more
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
KOROLENKO, VLADIMIR GALAKTIONOVICH (1853–1921), noted Russian short-story writer, publicist, and political activist. When Korolenko was arrested in 1879 for alleged populist activities and exiled to Siberia, he used the time to write many lyrical tales, exceptional for their descriptions of... Read more
Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani
Amintore Fanfani , 1908-99, Italian political leader, a Christian Democrat. A noted scholar, he held several cabinet posts after World War II and was secretary of the Christian Democratic party from 1954 to 1959. He was premier in 1954, 1958-59, 1960-63 (twice), 1982-83, and 1987; in 1962 he... Read more
George Padmore George Padmore
George Padmore George Padmore (c. 1902-1959) was a Trinidadian leftist political activist and author as well as a noted pan-Africanist ideologue. George Padmore, whose given name was Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was educated through secondary school in Trinidad. In 1924 he went to the United... Read more
Ogden Livingston Mills Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills 1884-1937, American political leader, b. Newport, R.I. He practiced law in New York City and became an active Republican party leader. He served (1914-17) in the New York state legislature and then (1921-27) in the U.S. Congress, where he was noted as a fiscal expert. He was... Read more
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BODY BODY. The intricate relationship between food and the human body finds expression in virtually all dimensions of human existence: from physiology to psychology, from the domestic sphere to that of political economy, from the societal to the symbolic. In exploring the ways in which food and... Read more
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Williams College at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams . The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor House (moved from Albany, N.Y.),... Read more

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