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Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Respectability Jazz was traditionally a music too closely associated with sin and race to attract an establishment following. Born in southern whorehouses and bar-rooms and developed by black musicians with a reputation for intemperance and... Read more |
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Don Juan
Don Juan , legendary profligate. He has a counterpart in the legends of many peoples, but the Spanish version of the great libertine has become the most universal. At the height of his licentious career, Don Juan seduces the daughter of the commander of Seville and kills her father in a duel. When... Read more |
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James Boswell
James Boswell 1740-95, Scottish author, b. Edinburgh; son of a distinguished judge. At his father's insistence the young Boswell reluctantly studied law. Admitted to the bar in 1766, he practiced throughout his life, but his true interest was in a literary career and in associating with the great... Read more |
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte , 1749-1838, Italian librettist and teacher, b. Ceneda as Emmanuele Conegliano. Born Jewish, he converted to Catholicism at 14, became (1773) a priest, and shortly after ordination moved to Venice. A freethinking liberal and sometime libertine and gambler, he was banished from... Read more |
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Orleans
Orléans , family name of two branches of the French royal line. The house of Valois-Orléans was founded by Louis, duc d' Orléans (see separate article), whose assassination (1407) caused the civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians . This house ascended the French throne... Read more |
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Louis Philippe Joseph duc d Orleans
Louis Philippe Joseph Orléans, duc d' , known as Philippe Égalité , 1747-93, French revolutionist; great-grandson of Philippe II, duc d'Orléans (see Orléans , family) and great-great-great-grandson of King Louis XIII. First duke of Montpensier and then duke of... Read more |
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Count Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, Count Rus. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi (lyĕf), 1828-1910, Russian novelist and philosopher, considered one of the world's greatest writers. Early Life Of a noble family, Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his parents' estate near Tula. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by his... Read more |
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Johnny Depp
Depp, Johnny 1963– (Oprah Noodlemantra) PERSONAL Full name, John Christopher Depp II; born June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, KY; raised in Florida; son of John Christopher Depp (a civil engineer) and Betty Sue Palmer (a waitress); brother of Daniel P. Depp (a screenwriter)... Read more |
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