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Hip-Hop Culture
HIP-HOP CULTURE
Background
During the late 1970s an underground urban movement known as "hip-hop" began to develop in the South Bronx area of New York City. Encompassing graffiti art, break dancing, rap music, and fashion, hip-hop became the dominant cultural movement of the African American and H...
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright , 1897-1983, American painter, b. North Harvey, Ill. Allied with the Magic Realist group, Albright developed a style combining American scene painting with surrealist influences. He sought to portray the decadence of mankind and the horror of America during the depression. ...
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William Hope Harvey
William Hope Harvey 1851-1936, American writer on economics, called Coin Harvey, b. Buffalo, Putnam co., W.Va. He studied at Marshall College, practiced law, and interested himself in monetary problems. He was a vigorous advocate of bimetallism at the time the argument over coinage of silver was ...
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George Brinton McClellan Harvey
George Brinton McClellan Harvey 1864-1928, American journalist and diplomat, b. Peacham, Caledonia co., Vt. After a career in journalism and insurance, he became involved in the construction and administration of electric railroads, a venture that brought him a fortune. In 1899 he bought the North...
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Harvey Samuel Firestone
Harvey Samuel Firestone 1868-1938, American industrialist, manufacturer of rubber products, b. Columbiana co., Ohio. The son of a prosperous farmer, Harvey Firestone began to manufacture rubber tires in 1896. He organized (1900) the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and rapidly became a leader of...
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Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe , 1567-1601, English satirist. Very little is known of his life. Although his first publications appeared in 1589, it was not until Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592), a bitter satire on contemporary society, that his natural and vigorous style was fully developed. ...
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis , 1906?-75, Greek shipowner and financier, b. Turkey. Leaving Turkey after the Turkish defeat of Greek forces at Smyrna (1922), he revived the family tobacco business in Argentina. In 1925 he received Argentinean and Greek citizenship. Onassis purchased his first ships in ...
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William Henry Harvey
William Henry Harvey 1811-66, Irish botanist. An authority on algae, he wrote A Manual of the British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (4 vol., 1846-51), and Phycologia Australica (5 vol., 1858-63), which are classics in their field. He spent several years in South Africa, and as a result ...
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk 1931-78, U.S. politician and gay-rights activist. When elected (1977) to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he was the first acknowledged homosexual to win high local office in the United States. A liberal Democrat, he supported equal rights for minorities and women. Former city su...
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Harvey, Gabriel
Harvey, Gabriel (c.1550–1631), became the friend of Spenser and was probably his tutor. He commemorated Sir Thomas Smith, his patron, in a series of Latin elegies, Smithus (1578), which may have influenced the form of Spenser's ‘Teares of the Muses’. After a brilliant but tr...
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