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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski 1933-, Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned to Kraków, Poland, when he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his mother died at Auschwitz, but Polanski, living partly on his own, escaped the Holocaust. He began to act... Read more |
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regicides
regicides [Lat., =king-killers], in English history, name given to those judges and court officers responsible for the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. After the Restoration (1660) of the monarchy they were excepted from the general pardon granted by the Act of Indemnity. At that time 41... Read more |
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Ricardo Palma
Ricardo Palma Ricardo Palma (1833-1919) was a Peruvian essayist and short-story writer. He composed a long series of witty and picaresque tradiciones, or historical prose tales, whose plots and incidents were for the most part derived from the rich wealth of Peruvian literature and history. ... Read more |
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Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd Rock group The history of Puddle of Mudd's rise to popularity could provide the definition of being in the right place at the right time and with the right talent. Their major label debut album, Come Clean, sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week of... Read more |
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Slade
Slade Rock group British rock band Slade was hugely successful in England in the 1970s, but despite consecutive hit singles and albums, they never went beyond cult status in North America. Between 1971 and 1974, Slade had 11 top five hits in England, catapulting them to the top of the new glam... Read more |
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Douglas Haig
Douglas Haig The British general Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), commanded British forces on the Western front in Europe during World War I. He is credited with the final British victories over the German armies in 1918. Douglas Haig was born on June 19, 1861, in Edinburgh,... Read more |
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Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer
1st Earl of Cromer The English statesman Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), ruled Egypt from 1883 to 1907. Evelyn Baring was born on Feb. 26, 1841, at Cromer Hall in Norfolk. He entered Woolwich in 1855 to train for the Royal Artillery and in 1858 went with his battery to the... Read more |
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Sir David Low
Sir David Low , 1891-1963, British cartoonist, b. New Zealand. In 1919 Low went to England, where he worked on the London Star (1919-27). Thereafter he successively joined the staff of the Evening Standard (1927-50), the Daily Herald (1950-53), and finally the Manchester Guardian (from... Read more |
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Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia
Francia, José Gaspar Rodriguez de (1776–1840) Dictator of Paraguay. A leader of the Paraguayan movement for independence from Spain (1811), he dominated the post-independence period by establishing (1814) one of the most absolute dictatorships in 19th-century Latin American history.... Read more |
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Sir Banastre Tarleton
Sir Banastre Tarleton , 1754-1833, British army officer in the American Revolution. He arrived (1775) in America with General Cornwallis and was a member of the patrol that captured Gen. Charles Lee at Basking Ridge, N.J. He served with William Howe at Brandywine, Germantown, and Philadelphia.... Read more |
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