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Bilbao
Bilbao , city (1990 pop. 383,798), capital of Vizcaya prov., N Spain, in the Basque Country, on both banks of the Nervión River, near the Bay of Biscay. A leading Spanish port and commercial center since the 19th cent., it is at the heart of an important industrial area with iron mines... Read more |
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Frank Gehry
Gehry, Frank February 28, 1929 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Architect Over the years many adjectives have been used to describe Frank Gehry's creations, including edgy, forward-looking, astonishing, and weird. Anything but ordinary, Gehry challenged the mainstream in... Read more |
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Richard Serra
Richard Serra 1939-, American sculptor, b. San Francisco; grad. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 1961), Yale (B.F.A., M.F.A., 1974). Many of his early works (1960s) are cast in rubber or lead. Later, using metals, concrete, fiberglass, and other materials, he created large-scale abstract... Read more |
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Santiago Calatrava
Calatrava Valls, Santiago (1951– ). Spanish-born architect, engineer, and urbanist, who established an architectural and engineering practice in Zürich (1981) and Paris (1989). His firm has designed numerous distinguished and innovative bridges (Barcelona, Bilbao, Córdoba,... Read more |
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Tomas de Zumalacarregui
Tomás de Zumalacárregui , 1788-1835, Spanish Carlist general. A professional soldier, he fought against the French in the Peninsular War (1808-14) and supported the absolutist cause during the disturbances of 1820-23. When King Ferdinand VII died (1833), Zumalacárregui supported... Read more |
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Bay of Biscay
Bay of Biscay , arm of the Atlantic Ocean, indenting the coast of W Europe from Ushant island (Île d'Ouessant) off Brittany, NW France, to Cape Ortegal, NW Spain. The bay is noted for its sudden, severe storms and its strong currents. The rocky northeastern and southern coasts of Biscay are... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York)
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more |
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more |
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Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim (Marguerite Guggenheim), 1898-1979, American modern art patron and collector, b. New York City. The daughter of Benjamin, niece of Solomon, and grand-daughter of Meyer Guggenheim , she grew up in luxury, inherited a fortune, and became a friend, patron, and sometime lover to a... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim
Guggenheim, Solomon R. (1861–1949). American industrialist, collector, and philanthropist, a member of a famous family of financiers whose fortunes were based on the mining and smelting of metals. Like other members of the family, he devoted much of his vast wealth to philanthropy and in 1937... Read more |
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Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century (1932), a comedy by Ben...famous train the Twentieth Century Limited. He hopes not only...a cruel razzing from 20th Century . . . in which those impish...staged evening a good deal of fun. It ran 449 performances... |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
...twelve years in office the New Deal helped to transform the structure...United States to the seventeenth century ( Theodore Roosevelt was his...hundred days (the “first New Deal”), he launched federal efforts...wealthy. His “second New Deal” included the ... |
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linen
...industry during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was heavily concentrated...the province during the 19th century.There had been a tradition...region by the end of the 17th century. Duty‐free access to the...Ireland as, during the 18th century, it was (with ... |
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Life Stages
...that evolved only in recent centuries. Although few historians shared...relations in the late twentieth century were conspicuously absent...profound ways over the past three centuries. The nineteenth century, for example, witnessed the...welfare services ... |
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Intelligence, Concepts of
...but a serious attempt to deal with one of the more vexing...confronting early twentieth‐century psychologists. From the development...during the late eighteenth century, when various European naturalists...eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, various ... |
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Wales
...invasion in the first centuries ad. In the 5th century, Saint David introduced...Christianity. In the 10th century, political power was...centralized. In the 11th century, the English conquered...industry and began to deal with regional ... |
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Opera
...until well into the twentieth century depended on touring companies...So emerged nineteenth‐century America's dual operatic culture...and Wagner.In the twentieth century, this European tradition...in a modest way with the New Deal Era of the 1930s and ... |
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Alms Houses
...Houses. From the early nineteenth century to the New Deal Era, alms houses dominated the...policy, by the early twentieth century alms houses (also known as poorhouses...cities as early as the seventeenth century, their numbers became significant... |
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biochemistry
...originally to have been a good deal wider than would be admitted today...them. In the early nineteenth century there was a good deal of debate as to whether the chemical...contemporaries in the mid nineteenth century played an indispensable part... |
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Welfare, Federal
...transformed in the last half century, narrowing from its original...welfare state.In the nineteenth century industrialization, urbanization...federal program before the New Deal; by the 1890s 40 percent...in those few years.The New Deal Era to the End of the ... |
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new
...broad movement of the late 20th century, originating in California...proverbial saying, mid 16th century, often used in the context...personnel and procedures.New Deal a name for the economic measures...introduced into England in the 16th century. Also, the ... |
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tantric Buddhism
...and attainments, and often deals with practices which are more magical...distinct path around the 7th century ce among circles of adepts based in the...were in use before the 1st century ce, the ritual of fire...gradually combined over the centuries until ... |
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cut
...rather than confront it or deal with it. Originally (in the early 18th century) a nautical phrase, meaning...sense since the early 19th century.cut the mustard chiefly in North...recorded from the mid 16th century.don't cut off your nose... |
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Fergus mac Léti
...versions, one from the 7th or 8th century, and a burlesque, Rabelaisian...returns to Loch Rudraige to deal with the muirdris, roiling...exhaustion. The burlesque 13th-century version expands the roles of sprites...hearing a reading of the 13th-century ... |
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astronomy
...astronomy early in the 17th century, astronomy was concerned purely...The realization in the 17th century that gravitation governed the...celestial mechanics. In the 19th century the development of spectroscopy...to modern cosmology, which deals with the ... |
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bridge
...Bridge Fraternity from the 12th century, a confraternity of laymen...Bénézet in the late 12th century and linking Avignon with Villeneuve...throughout the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad.Bridge of Sighs in Venice...bridge when one comes to it deal with a problem ... |
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American Indians
...Helen Hunt Jackson's book A Century of Dishonour in 1881. A scathing...their population, which after centuries of decline began to grow again...in 1934 as part of the New Deal. It reversed the 1887 Act...headed, for the first time in a century, by an ... |
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Canada
...nation during the twentieth century. After the decline of British...determinants of Canada's twentieth-century history: the internal threat...state, in the early twentieth century Laurier and Sifton encouraged...success of Roosevelt's New Deal.Owing to ... |
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laugh
...way to the bank make a great deal of money with very little effort...be fat earlier (late 16th century) related expression of the...be well earlier (mid 18th century) related expression of the...proverbial saying, late 19th century (a quotation from the poem ... |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
...implemented this in his New Deal programme, which gave work to millions...inherent weaknesses of the New Deal became more obvious, in particular...to last for the rest of the century.In the last years of his second...US President of the twentieth century, he ... |
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recoup
...recuperate Recoup, dating from the fifteenth century as an English word, is a transitive verb with...Recuperate, dating from the mid-sixteenth century, is almost always an intransitive verb with the...planning to strike a long-term performance deal in Las Vegas for early ... |
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NEW HOME FOR FREE IS 'DEAL OF CENTURY' It is the only way forward for Blues...
...extra to spend on players, described it as the "deal of the century". He said: "Emotions will be running very high...Evertonians are very reasonable. "It is an amazing deal, the deal of the century. If the heart rules the head we will... |
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GRAVES SIGNS DEAL OF CENTURY WITH RANGERS
...NJ) 03-05-1994 GRAVES SIGNS DEAL OF CENTURY WITH RANGERSBy VINNY DiTRANI, Staff...Graves is believed to have signed a deal that will keep him with the Rangers...been seeking, signed a three-year deal with St. Louis reportedly worth... |
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Fox TV stakes 'Buffy' runner to overall deal. (20th Century Fox Television,...
...figure overall development deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Pact, which...s first studio development deal, calls for the scribe to remain...one of the few new overall TV deals to be signed this season as...screenplay for producer Marc Platt. ... |
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Fed: Make sure Aboriginies get fair deal on Century mine: Greens
...Make sure Aboriginies get fair deal on Century mine: Greens CANBERRA, Nov 19 AAP...indigenous people were getting a fair deal from the owners of a mine in north...Aboriginal protesters at Pasminco's Century lead and zinc mine, about 250 km... |
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Lenders Claim Bank of China Was Unfair in PCCW Deal.(Pacific Century...
...loan package backing Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd.'s (PCCW...coordinating arrangers on the PCCW deal tried their best to accommodate...who are also familiar with the deal say that to point fingers at...said a source familiar with the deal. But the ... |
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Supergrass denies he got 'deal of century' COURTS.(News)
...Robert Stewart yesterday denied he is getting the "deal of the century" to give evidence against UVF suspects. The informer...abetting in the murder of the UDA leader was the deal of the century. But Stewart said it was not his choice to release... |
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Witness denies 'deal of century' to turn informer
...Robert Stewart has denied that he received the "deal of the century" in return for giving evidence against 14 UVF suspects...murder of UDA leader Tommy English in 2000 was the deal of the century. But Stewart said it wasn't his choice to release... |
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Fox TV inks 'Moron' deal.(Twentieth Century Fox Television telecasts "Stories...
...to the small screen via 20th Century Fox TV. Studio has optioned...as part of the six-figure deal. No network is yet attached...whose News Corp. owns 20th Century Fox TV, did). Interestingly...vacationing in San Quentin." Deal with 20th comes just a few ... |
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Fox replaces WB in Spanish pix deal.(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)(Brief...
Twentieth Century Fox and Spanish sales and...subbranch, Hispano FoxFilms, new deal will kick off April 7 with...Ensueno Films. Timeframe of deal has not been disclosed, but...Candida?' Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment already... |
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Kirkby is 'deal of century' EXCLUSIVE.(Sport)
...on the table for the club to move to Kirkby as the "deal of the century". In an exclusive interview with the Daily Post...supporters to canvass opinion. Wyness revealed: The deal with Tesco and Knowsley Council is worth pounds 50mto... |
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