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Robert Walker
Robert Walker d. 1658?, English painter, a follower of Van Dyck and favorite portraitist of Oliver Cromwell. His portraits of Cromwell and his family and followers are convincing studies of Puritan temperament. Examples are in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Metropolitan Museum.... Read more |
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Margaret Higgins Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger 1883-1966, American leader in the birth control movement, b. Corning, N.Y. Personal experience and work as a public-health nurse convinced her that family planning, especially where poverty was a factor, was a necessary step in social progress. She studied in London with... Read more |
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Anthony Babington
Anthony Babington , 1561-86, English conspirator. A member of the Roman Catholic gentry, he served as a youth in the household of the earl of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. In 1586 he became involved in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I, to free Mary,... Read more |
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John Alexander Binns
John Alexander Binns c.1761-1813, American agriculturist, b. Loudoun co., Va. He was one of the first to experiment with gypsum as a fertilizer and to convince others of its efficacy. Partly through example and partly through his pamphlet, Treatise on Practical Farming (1903), what came to be... Read more |
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Felix
Felix (d. 818), Bp. of Urgel in Spain and one of the leaders of the Adoptianist heresy. He was charged as a heretic at the Council of Ratisbon (792) and recanted. He later became convinced of his heresy again and was unmoved by the criticism of his doctrine written by Alcuin. He was formally accused... Read more |
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William Miller
William Miller 1782-1849, American sectarian leader, b. Pittsfield, Mass. He was the founder of the sect of Second Adventists , sometimes called Millerites. In 1831, convinced from study of the Bible that the prophecies pointed to the second coming of Christ in 1843, he went about spreading his... Read more |
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Barrington Moore
Moore, Barrington 1913-2003 BIBLIOGRAPHY Barrington Moore was a major sociologist who used history to wrestle with the philosophical dilemmas of justice and liberty. He saw all society and the maintenance of all values as inherently repressive, and he thought gradualism was far too accepting... Read more |
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The Mafia
Mafia, The BIBLIOGRAPHY The Mafia is an organized crime formation with Sicilian roots; branches in France, Tunisia, and the Americas; and a recent presence in Russia and Eastern Europe. Its historical successes vis-à-vis other criminal groups, particularly in the United States, have made... Read more |
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Radebe fires O'Leary's young guns into last 16
...United's European adventure continued at Elland...because this is an adventure we will learn from for...whose giant frame was almost the dividing line between...two of their French quartet - Gilles Grimandi and...found the target with ... |
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MOVIES
...Southaven Cinema, Summer Quartet Drive-In. Sicko...Southaven Cinema, Summer Quartet Drive-In. Opening...spy story remains a convincing argument for the merits...newest IMAX underwater adventure runs through Jan. 2...his native Holland in ... |
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MUSICAL DIVERSITY IS THE CHORD THAT BINDS IN SSO'S `OUR TIME' CONCERT.(Arts...
...so the feeling of adventure was sustained all night...especially sympathetic or convincing. Adams' Chamber Symphony...including a string quartet, a set of drums, synthesizer...composed for string quartet - the Kronos did the...the soprano was ... |
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Surprisingly Strong Security Council Resolution on Darfur Offers Some Hope
...another Anglo-American adventure in the oil-bearing...resolution approved an almost 20,000 strong peacekeeping...counterproductive. So the process almost certainly involved some...cavortings over the Quartet would indicate. Hamas...caveats should have been ... |
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This will have Dickens fans asking for more.(Movie Review)
...too. But it is more convincing than Carol Reed's...debut with this sci-fi adventure, and those who liked...Ingmar Bergman - and almost everything one doubts...simple style has an almost hypnotic effect. Saraband...loved. This unhappy quartet ... |
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Piano Sonatas: No. 22 in F; No. 24 in f#; No. 29 in B[musical flat],...
...Beethoven's later adventures in the realms of fugue...juxtapositions, and his almost amelodic approach to...in the final string quartets; for when its entire...Hammerklavier" less convincing. He has the measure...is actually faster by almost ... |
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SIMON'S RECORDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN U.S.(Entertainment)
...Geoffrey Simon has made a most convincing demonstration of his gifts...with excellent notations in almost readable type, with superior...the splendid Allegri String Quartet in the better known Piano Quintet...future of tremendous quality and adventure for ... |
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After parties.(TimeOut)
...her own words, she is still convincing check out her brilliant cover...originators, Nicolas Jaar almost the antithesis to that upbeat...instrumental album and 13-song adventure, wonderfully blending genres...Austin, Texas-based rock quartet puts out epic ... |
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