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queer Queer Nation the name of a campaigning lesbian and gay rights organization founded in the US in 1990, reflecting a militant form of gay activism which set out deliberately to reclaim the contemptuous slang use of queer to mean a homosexual by transmuting what was originally regarded as... Read more
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Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin 1862-1901, American pianist and composer, b. Edgeworth, Pa., studied in Boston and in Germany. He made his debut as a pianist in Pittsburgh in 1886 but devoted most of his time to composition of songs and short, lyrical pieces. One song, The Rosary (1898), enjoyed great... Read more
Narcissus (mythology) Narcissus (mythology)
Narcissus närsĬs´es , in Greek mythology, beautiful youth who refused all offers of love, including that of Echo . As punishment for his indifference he was made to fall in love with his own image in a mountain pool. Unable to possess the image, he pined away and was turned into a... Read more
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amaryllis , common name for some members of the Amaryllidaceae, a family of mostly perennial plants with narrow, flat leaves and with lilylike flowers borne on separate, leafless stalks. They are widely distributed throughout the world, especially in flatlands of the tropics and subtropics. Many... Read more
Rumer Godden Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden (Margaret Rumer Godden) , 1907-98, English novelist. Godden was highly praised for the subtlety of her characterization (particularly of children), the charm of her style, and her unflinching focus on characters usually considered marginal. Many of her novels reflect her deep... Read more
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Narcissus , in the New Testament, Roman whose household was partly Christian.... Read more
Boyhood Boyhood
Boyhood Boyhood is a difficult word to define, in part because definitions of boyhood have changed over the centuries and in part because they continue to differ depending on culture and region. Boyhood is definitely associated with boys, and with a bounded time period between infancy and young... Read more
Relations with Greece Relations with Greece
GREECE, RELATIONS WITH Ideas originating in Greece, a country in southeastern Europe that occupies the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula and is bordered by the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian seas, first influenced Russian culture as early as the tenth century, during the golden age of... Read more
Messalina Messalina
Messalina (Valeria Messalina) , d. AD 48, Roman empress, wife of Claudius I . She was the mother of his children, Britannicus and Octavia. Her reputation for greed and lust was supposedly unknown to her husband until, in Claudius' absence, she publicly married her lover Caius Silius. A... Read more
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896-1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods, where most of her novels are set. Cross Creek (1942) is a humorous autobiographical account of her life there. The... Read more

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