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Robert Kennedy
R OBERTK ENNEDY Born: November 20, 1925 Brookline, Massachusetts Died: June 6, 1968 Los Angeles, California American statesman, senator, and attorney general Robert Kennedy was a U.S. senator and the attorney general in the ... Read more |
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John Maurice of Nassau
John Maurice of Nassau 1604-79, Dutch general and colonial administrator, a prince of the house of Nassau-Siegen; grandnephew of William the Silent. The Dutch West India Company appointed him (1636) governor-general of its newly acquired possessions in Brazil. He conquered NE Brazil from the... Read more |
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John Pendleton Kennedy
John Pendleton Kennedy John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870), a prominent American novelist in his time, served briefly as President Millard Fillmore's secretary of the Navy. John Pendleton Kennedy was the scion of a cultivated Baltimore, Md., family. He graduated from Baltimore College in 1812... Read more |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy." He was the child of two world... Read more |
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John Legend
John Legend1978— Musician John Legend, one of the top R&B performers working today, earned his stage name by having a vocal style that recalled the soul singers of old. A child prodigy from a small Midwestern town, Legend worked as a backup singer and session musician for some of the leading... Read more |
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Jan Veth
Veth, Jan (b Dordrecht, 18 May 1864; d Amsterdam, 1 July 1925). Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, and writer on art, a leading figure in the Dutch art world of his time. His best-known book is his monograph on Rembrandt, originally published to mark the 300th anniversary of the... Read more |
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Hokusai
Hokusai (Katsushika Hokusai) , 1760-1849, Japanese painter, draftsman, and wood engraver, one of the foremost ukiyo-e print designers. After producing wood engravings for several years, he became a pupil of the celebrated artisan Shunsho , adopting the name Shunro. In the 1790s he illustrated... Read more |
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Bernardino Luini
Bernardino Luini , c.1480-1532, b. Luino, Italian painter, son of Giovanni Lutero. Among the extant works of his early years (before 1510) are a Pietà (Santa Maria della Passione, Milan) and Madonna and Child with St. John (National Gall., London), in the manner of the Lombard school. He... Read more |
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Sholom Aleichem
Sholom Aleichem Probably the foremost writer of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) was a catalyst for its revival at the turn of the century. He is also "The Jewish Mark Twain," a folk artist who faithfully recreated the shtetl, village life of Russian Jews before modernity,... Read more |
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James Hamilton 3d earl of Arran
James Hamilton, 3d earl of Arran 1530-1609, Scottish nobleman; son of James Hamilton, 2d earl of Arran. He spent some years (1550-58) as a soldier in France, but his espousal of Protestantism brought his recall to Scotland, where his father, with the concurrence of John Knox, unsuccessfully... Read more |
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