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Jo Mielziner
Jo Mielziner , 1901-76, American theatrical scene designer, b. Paris. Mielziner made his Broadway design debut in 1924 with The Guardsman. He designed sets, and usually the lighting, for more than 200 productions, including Strange Interlude, Carousel, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a... Read more |
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Dame Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark 1918-2006, Scottish novelist, b. Muriel Sarah Camberg. She lived in Edinburgh, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), London, New York, and Rome, and spent her last years in Tuscany. Spark's typically short, spare, and witty novels expose the pretensions, hypocrisies, and petty foibles of her... Read more |
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Muriel Spark
Muriel Sarah Spark Muriel Sarah Spark (born 1918) wrote biography, literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, including the novel that was considered her masterpiece, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918, Muriel Spark worked in the Political Intelligence... Read more |
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Spica
Spica , brightest star in the constellation Virgo ; Bayer designation Alpha Virginis; 1992 position R.A. 13 h 24.8 m , Dec. -11°07′. A bluish-white star of spectral class B1 V, its apparent magnitude averages about 0.96, making it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Because it... Read more |
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Jean Chretien
J EANC HRÉTIEN Born: January 11, 1934 Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada Canadian prime minister and politician Jean Chrétien was elected ten times to Canada's House of Commons, held almost every major cabinet office, and in October 1993 was elected as... Read more |
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Mira
Mira , [Lat.,=marvelous], variable star in the constellation Cetus; Bayer designation Omicron Ceti; 1992 position R.A. 2 h 19.0 m , Dec. -3°05′. The most famous long-period variable, Mira ranges in apparent magnitude from a maximum of about 2.0 to a minimum of about 10.1 with a period... Read more |
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