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bezique
bezique , card game usually played with 128 cards by two players. Bezique developed in France and England in the 1860s and originally required only 64 cards; later there were variations for three players with a 96-card pack and for four players with 128 cards. Pinochle is similar and is probably... Read more |
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Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia Pianist For the Record … Selected discography Sources Concert pianist Murray Perahia has gained critical acclaim for his masterful but unpretentious technique. His musical interpretation, uniquely crafted to fit each piece he plays, is succinct and elegant. And the list of... Read more |
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Alfred M. Landon
Alfred Mossman Landon Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987) was the Republican nominee opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election of 1936. Running against popular New Deal policies, Landon lost to Roosevelt by the largest electoral vote margin of any candidate since... Read more |
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oak
oak allusion is often made to the hardness and durability of the oak, and to the traditional use of oak timber for ships. In traditional rhymes, it may be linked and compared with other trees, as the ash and the thorn.The Oaks is an annual flat horse race for three-year-old fillies run on Epsom... Read more |
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Elizabeth Spencer
Spencer, Elizabeth (1921– ),Mississippi‐born novelist, resident for some time in Italy. Since 1958 she and her husband have lived in Canada. Her first novels, Fire in the Morning (1948), This Crooked Way (1952), and The Voice at the Back Door (1956), are set in her native state and in... Read more |
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Atalanta
Atalanta , in Greek mythology, huntress famous for her speed and skill. She took part in the Calydonian hunt and was rewarded by Meleager with the pelt of the boar. Later, warned by an oracle not to marry, she demanded that each suitor run a race with her, on the condition that the winner would... Read more |
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Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov , 1920-91, American poet, novelist, and critic, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1941; brother of photographer Diane Arbus . He taught at Bennington College for many years and was associated with Washington Univ. in St. Louis from 1969 until his death. Nemerov's witty and often... Read more |
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