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Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American author, b. Millville, N.J. After 1888 he lived in England, studied at Oxford, and became a man of letters. His brief and exquisite essays were collected as All Trivia (1933). Other works include writings on the English language, a biography of Sir... Read more |
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Denzil Holles
Holles, Denzil (1599–1680). Holles, a parliamentarian, achieved notoriety on 2 May 1629 when, acting in concert with Eliot, he held down the Commons' Speaker. Punished by a brief spell in prison, he was re-elected to Parliament in 1640. Though included by Charles I among the five members... Read more |
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Paul Valery
Paul Valéry , 1871-1945, French poet and critic. A follower of the symbolists , Valéry was one of the greatest French poets of the 20th cent. He was encouraged by Pierry Loüys and by Mallarmé to publish a few poems in several small reviews, but he soon turned from poetry... Read more |
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Nematomorpha
Nematomorpha , small (about 230 species) phylum of pseudocoelomates ; the horsehair worms . Most are very slender, elongated creatures found in ponds and streams, whose larvae live as parasites in arthropods. They emerge as adults for a brief time, then mate and die. A small number are planktonic... Read more |
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impressionism
impressionism in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. It was loosely structured in that many... Read more |
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Olynthus
Olynthus , ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. BC, and Olynthus, as the head of this Chalcidian League, vigorously opposed the threats of Athens and Sparta. Athens captured the... Read more |
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Elizabeth Spencer
Spencer, Elizabeth (1921– ),Mississippi‐born novelist, resident for some time in Italy. Since 1958 she and her husband have lived in Canada. Her first novels, Fire in the Morning (1948), This Crooked Way (1952), and The Voice at the Back Door (1956), are set in her native state and in... Read more |
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Gallic Wars
Gallic Wars , campaigns in Gaul led by Julius Caesar in his two terms as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, Transalpine Gaul, and Illyricum (58 BC-51 BC). Caesar's first campaign was to prevent the Helvetii (who lived N of the Lake of Geneva) from crossing the Roman territory Provincia (Provence) on... Read more |
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Tu Fu
Tu Fu , 712-70, Chinese poet. Tu Fu is often considered the greatest of Chinese poets. He did not pass the imperial civil service examinations and, although he held a few official positions for brief periods, he spent many poverty-stricken years as a wanderer. His poetry expresses his bitterness... Read more |
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Rhine RE to Acquire The Imperial Fire & Marine Re-Insurance Company; Receives...
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A.M. Best Affirms A- Rating of Rhine Re Group.
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