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Janissaries
Janissaries [Turk.,=recruits], elite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all the recruits were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. It was originally organized by Sultan Murad I. Th...
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Patrick Gordon
Patrick Gordon 1635-99, Scottish soldier of fortune and Russian general, b. Scotland. After serving alternately on both sides in the war between Sweden and Poland (1655-60), he entered the Russian army (1661) and later became the devoted friend of the youthful czar Peter I (Peter the Great). The gr...
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Hymen
Hymen or Hymenaeus , in Greek mythology, personification of marriage, represented as a beautiful youth carrying a bridal torch and wearing a veil.
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National Urban League
National Urban League voluntary nonpartisan community service agency, founded in 1910, whose goal is to help end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States, especially toward African Americans, and to help economically and socially disadvantaged groups to share equally in every aspe...
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Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1st Baron
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1st Baron , 1857-1941, British soldier, founder of the Boy Scouts . He saw much active service in India and Africa prior to the South African War, in which he defended Mafikeng for seven months (1899-1900) and subsequently organized the ...
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Henrietta Szold
Henrietta Szold , 1860-1945, American Zionist leader, editor, and translator, b. Baltimore. After graduating from high school in 1877 she taught (1878-92) in private schools, organizing some of the first night school classes for immigrants. She was a founder (1888) of the Jewish Publication Society ...
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Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation service mark for a meditation technique and program founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and based on Vedic philosophy. Stressing natural meditation and the mental and physical benefits and personal development that could be achieved, Transcendental Meditation is said to help ...
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Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation service mark for a meditation technique and program founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and based on Vedic philosophy. Stressing natural meditation and the mental and physical benefits and personal development that could be achieved, Transcendental Meditation is said to help ...
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Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold 1741-1801, American Revolutionary general and traitor, b. Norwich, Conn. As a youth he served for a time in the colonial militia in the French and Indian Wars . He later became a prosperous trader. Early in the Revolution, his expedition against Fort Ticonderoga joined that of Etha...
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Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler 1931-2001, Canadian novelist, b. Montreal. He fled his native city in the early 1950s and lived mainly in London, returning to Canada in 1972 and from then on spending part of his year in London and part in Montreal. Reflecting his youth in that city, Richler's novels are often set...
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