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hunger
hunger can have a variety of meanings. For example, to a nutritionist it may be used to describe starvation resulting from a lack of food. However, to most of us hunger refers to the sensations we feel when we need food, such as an aching, growling stomach, weakness, or a grumpy mood. Indeed, the... Read more |
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Jacinto Benavente y Martinez
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez , 1866-1954, Spanish dramatist, b. Madrid. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known play is Los intereses creados (1907, tr. Bonds of Interest, 1917), a farce written on the pattern of the Italian commedia dell'arte. In 1916 he wrote... Read more |
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Thomas Feelings
Tom Feelings 1933— Illustrator Drawing the Story of a Neighborhood A Mission Born African Is Beautiful New Worlds to Conquer Applauded for Cultural Achievement Multi-generational Picturebooks The Middle Passage Selected writings Sources If any man should be regarded as the personification of... Read more |
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Passion fruit
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Diana Krall
Diana Krall Pianist, singer Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall became the toast of the international jazz scene, as well as to more mainstream audiences, during the mid-1990s. The late 1990s and early 2000s brought her a Grammy Award and three Canadian Juno Awards for her work, and even... Read more |
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Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres comte de Caylus
Caylus, Comte de ( Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières) (b Paris, 31 Oct. 1692; d Paris, 5 Sept. 1765). French antiquarian, collector, patron, writer, and amateur printmaker. Caylus came from a wealthy aristocratic family and at an early age distinguished himself as a soldier in the War of the... Read more |
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Medici
Medici , Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. Of obscure origin, they rose to immense wealth as merchants and bankers, became affiliated through marriage with the major houses of Europe, and, besides acquiring (1569) the title grand duke of... Read more |
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Master of the Legend of St Francis
Master of the Legend of St Francis. A name for the main painter of the famous cycle of frescos on the nave walls of the Upper Church of S. Francesco in Assisi, depicting the life of St Francis and probably dating from about 1300, although some critics put them as late as the 1330s. This cycle was... Read more |
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Francesco Hayez
Hayez, Francesco (b Venice, 11 Feb. 1791; d Milan, 12 Dec. 1882). Italian painter, active mainly in Milan. Hayez was the most important figure in the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in Italian painting, but his Romantic leanings come out mainly in subject matter rather than in... Read more |
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