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legacy
legacy bequest by will of personal property , similar in many respects to a gift causa mortis. A legacy ordinarily is distinguished from a devise, which transfers real property by will. The person who receives a legacy is called a legatee. Legacies are of various types. A specific legacy... Read more |
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Maynard Jackson
Maynard Jackson 1938–2003 Former city official, lawyer Chose Politics Over Legacy Entered Politics Elected Atlanta’s First Black Mayor Mandate as Mayor Renewed Sources On January 7, 1974, Maynard Jackson, an ebullient, outspoken bond lawyer, became the first black—and at age 35... Read more |
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Antonin Dvorak
Antonin Dvorak Composer Gained Early Renown in Prague A Staunch Nationalist Died in Poverty Selected discography Sources Considered the greatest composer that the Czech nation ever produced, Antonin Dvorak wrote a career’s worth of classical works for orchestra, symphony, and... Read more |
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Yad Vashem
YAD VASHEM The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, as well as a site in Israel dedicated to commemorating the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution and extermination. Established on the authority of the 1945 London Zionist Congress, Yad Vashem (from Isaiah 56:5) includes a... Read more |
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University of Virginia
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA The University of Virginia, known since its founding in 1819 as "Mr. Jefferson's University," has personified, in past and present, a distinctive approach to public higher education whose integration of academic vision and architectural environment attracts national and... Read more |
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Dependency Theory
Dependency Theory A RICH DEBATE EMPIRICAL CHALLENGES A LASTING LEGACY BIBLIOGRAPHY In the early 1950s, a group of economists stationed at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) in Santiago, Chile, launched a rigorous research program around one pressing question:... Read more |
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Carol Littleton
LITTLETON, Carol Editor. Nationality:American. Born:Oklahoma, c.1948. Education:Attended University of Oklahoma. Family:Married the cinematographer John Bailey. Career:1972–77—owned company which made commercial ad spots; 1977—began as editor... Read more |
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Sobhuza II
Sobhuza II Sobhuza II (1899-1982) ruled the African nation of Swaziland for 60 years, first as a British Protectorate and after 1968, when Swaziland gained independence from England, as a sovereign state. During his reign, he regained much, but not all, of the land his people had lost to European... Read more |
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Menno Simons
Menno Simons , 1496?-1561, Dutch religious reformer. The name of the Mennonites was derived from his name, although he was not the actual founder of the sect. In 1524 he became a Roman Catholic priest but in 1536 he left the church when he announced that he no longer believed in infant baptism and... Read more |
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Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters Composer, organist Twentieth-century music, often described as iconoclastic, restless, oblivious to tradition, and passionately dedicated to innovation, also boasts of several great organist-composers who knew how to express the spirit of their time without neglecting tradition.... Read more |
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