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hart in Christian iconography, the hart can symbolize a soul longing for the water of baptism, in allusion to Psalm 42. A hart can also stand as an image of Christ as the adversary of Satan, since the Bestiaries attribute to deer the power of finding and killing snakes.A hart (or stag), sometimes... Read more |
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Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart Drummer, percussionist For the Record… Joined the Grateful Dead Developed Own Musical Pursuits Continued Interest in World Music Selected discography Selected writings Sources Mickey Hart is best known as one of two drummers in the improvisational.... Read more |
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Lorenz Milton Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart 1895-1943, American lyricist, b. New York City, studied at Columbia. Hart began collaborating with Richard Rodgers in 1919; their initial success was The Garrick Gaieties (1925). Thereafter, the team of Rodgers and Hart produced such popular musicals as Connecticut Yankee ... Read more |
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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907-1992) became a leading scholar in the field of legal philosophy after publishing his most influential work, The Concept of Law, in 1961. Hart was a foremost proponent of legal positivism. Law Career H.L.A. Hart was born on... Read more |
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Poetry A Magazine of Verse
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1929–), founded at Chicago by Harriet Monroe and edited by her until 1936. Later editors have included Karl Shapiro and John Frederick Nims. Long the major journal exclusively devoted to poetry, and the precursor of many other little magazines, Poetry has had... Read more |
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Harte) , 1836-1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his hand at teaching, clerking, and mining. In 1868 he helped establish the Overland Monthly, where his short stories and verse first... Read more |
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Alvin Youngblood Hart
Hart, Alvin Youngblood1963— Musician Steeped in the acoustic blues tradition of his Mississippi ancestors, guitarist and singer Alvin Youngblood Hart has earned both critical and popular acclaim. His songs honor the blues heritage of such seminal figures as Leadbelly and Robert Johnson, but also... Read more |
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John Hart
John Hart 1711?-1779, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Hopewell Township, N.J. A prosperous farm and mill owner, he was a member of the provincial assembly (1761-71), of several provincial congresses, and of the Continental Congress of 1776.... Read more |
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975, American regionalist painter, b. Neosho, Mo.; grandnephew of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton and son of Congressman Maecenas E. Benton. In 1906 and 1907 he attended the Art Institute of Chicago and at 19 went to Paris, where he remained five years. On his return to the United... Read more |
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Moss Hart
Moss Hart 1904-61, American dramatist, b. New York City, studied at Columbia. His first important play, Once in a Lifetime (1930), marked the beginning of a long collaboration with George S. Kaufman . Among their other successful comedies are Merrily We Roll Along (1934), You Can't Take It... Read more |
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