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Lester Keith Piggott
Lester Keith Piggott 1935-, British jockey. A major figure in British horse racing after 1954, Piggott rode over 4,000 winners in Britain. He gained particular success in classic British races such as the Derby , which he won nine times between 1954 and 1983. He also won the Prix de l'Arc de... Read more |
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James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918)
James Gordon Bennett 1841-1918, American newspaper proprietor, b. New York City; son of James Gordon Bennett . Educated mostly in France, he took over (1867) from his father the management of the New York Herald. In 1869-71 he financed Henry Stanley 's expedition into Africa to find David ... Read more |
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Holocaust
Holocaust , name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Although anti-Semitism in Europe has a long history, persecution of German Jews began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Jews were disenfranchised, then terrorized in anti-Jewish riots (such... Read more |
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Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon1960- Television and radio news personality Ed Gordon emerged in the late 1990s as one of the hottest news personalities in the highly competitive business. For many years, Gordon was a leading news anchor for the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. During his early years with... Read more |
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Soviet Union. TASS
TASS TASS, the Telegraph Agency of the USSR, was founded in July 1925 with the goal of centralizing control over the distribution of foreign news in the Soviet Union under the oversight of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the Soviet of Peoples' Commissars (Sovnarkom ). Until the collapse of... Read more |
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Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell (Ian Robert Maxwell), 1923-91, British business executive, b. Czechoslovakia as Jan Ludwik Hoch. He grew up in a tight-knit Jewish community. After fleeing the Nazis in 1939, Maxwell fought with the British during World War II. In 1951, he purchased Pergamon Press, a publisher of... Read more |
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Gail Devers
Gail Devers 1966- American track and field athlete Gail Devers will go down as one of the fastest female combination sprinters and hurdlers in history, as well as one of the greatest track and field athletes. While her awards and accomplishments, including setting several American and world... Read more |
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Frederick Brown
Brown, Frederick (1851–1941). British painter and teacher, born at Chelmsford, the son of a painter. A founder member of the New English Art Club in 1886, he was responsible for drawing up the rules of the club and was amongst the most energetic in its campaign against the conservatism of the... Read more |
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Ewe
Ewe , African people, numbering over 3 million, who live in SE Ghana, S Togo, and S Benin. When German Togoland was partitioned after World War I, the Ewe in that colony were divided between France and Britain. The question of reunion was constantly before the United Nations after World War II, but... Read more |
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