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Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino , 1895-1926, American film actor, b. Italy as Rodolfo Guglielmi. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and, after a brief career as a dancer and bit player, was an instant success in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), largely due to a steamy tango scene. His... Read more
Robert Blair Robert Blair
Robert Blair 1699-1746, English poet and clergyman. His literary reputation rests solely on his didactic, blank-verse poem on death, The Grave (1743).... Read more
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Alfred Percival Graves Alfred Percival Graves
Alfred Percival Graves 1846-1931, Irish poet. An inspector of schools, he was also twice president of the Irish literary society. He compiled several volumes of Irish music and folksongs. Included among his own writings are Irish Songs and Ballads (1880) and Father O'Flynn (1889). ... Read more
Robert Ranke Graves Robert Ranke Graves
Robert Ranke Graves 1895-1985, English poet, novelist, and critic; son of Alfred Percival Graves . He established his reputation with Good-bye to All That (1929), an outspoken book on his war experiences. A versatile and highly prolific writer, Graves considered himself primarily a poet; his... Read more
emile Antoine Bourdelle emile Antoine Bourdelle
Émile Antoine Bourdelle , 1861-1929, French sculptor; son of a cabinetmaker of Montauban. He went to Paris in 1884, where he studied successively under Falguière, Dalou, and Rodin. Bourdelle differed sharply from Rodin in his preoccupation with the relation of sculpture to... Read more
John Barbour John Barbour
John Barbour , c.1316?-1395, Scottish poet. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen from 1355 until his death. His romance, The Bruce (1375), celebrating Scotland's emancipation from England, recounts the heroic deeds of Robert I and Sir James Douglas. The poem was meant to be read as history and shows... Read more
Graves disease Graves disease
Graves' disease (exophthalmic goitre) (grayvz) n. see thyrotoxicosis. [ R. J. Graves (1797–1853), Irish physician]... Read more
Picketts Charge Picketts Charge
PICKETT'S CHARGE PICKETT'S CHARGE (3 July 1863), more properly the Pickett-Pettigrew charge, was the culminating event of the Battle of Gettysburg. Repulsed on 1 and 2 July, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assaulted the Union center with divisions under George Edward Pickett, J. J. Pettigrew, and... Read more
grave grave
grave space excavated in the earth or rock for the burial of a corpse. When a grave is marked by a protective or memorial structure it is often referred to as a tomb . See burial ; funeral customs .... Read more

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