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Memorial
MEMORIAL Memorial, a self-described "international, historical-educational, human rights, and charitable society," was founded in Moscow in 1988. Its original inspiration lay in the work of scattered professional and amateur historians who had quietly and often covertly done independent research on... Read more |
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Terry Bradshaw
Terry Bradshaw 1948- American football player The Steel Curtain. Franco Harris. Lynn Swann . Mean Joe Greene . These names are all indelibly imprinted in the psyches of football fans who lived through the early 1980s, as well as struck a special fear into the Dallas Cowboy fans who lost not... Read more |
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Gorky
Gorky or Gorky Leninskoye , suburb of Moscow, central European Russia. The country home of Lenin, who died there, is now a memorial museum.... Read more |
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Fatherhood
Fatherhood Father is derived from the Latin word pater : a man who has engendered a child, a male parent, or a person who takes responsibility for protecting, caring, and rearing. It is only since the early 1980s that there has been a public and professional focus on the more affective use of... Read more |
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San Juan (United States)
San Juan pueblo (1990 pop. 1,821), Rio Arriba co., N N.Mex., on the Rio Grande; settled 1598 by Juan de Oñate . A Franciscan mission was later established. It was the home of Popé , the medicine man who led the Native Americans in the Pueblo revolt of 1680. The inhabitants are ... Read more |
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Antipodeans
Antipodeans (or Antipodean Group). The name adopted by a group of Australian painters ( Arthur Boyd and John Perceval were the best known) who held an exhibition in Melbourne in 1959; the catalogue contained a manifesto of their aims, attacking abstraction and championing figurative art. The... Read more |
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Cryptomnesia
CRYPTOMNESIA Cryptomnesia is a memory that has been forgotten and then returns without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. In general, the memory returns in the form of an idea or intuition, but reappearances in the form of actions have also been... Read more |
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Follies
Follies (1971), a musical play by James Goldman (music), Stephen Sondheim (music, lyrics). [Winter Garden Theatre, 522 perf.; NYDCC Award.] With the Weismann Theatre under demolition, many of the aging performers who had played in the various editions of Weismann's Follies gather for a last,... Read more |
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primitive methodists
primitive methodists broke away from the main Wesleyan body and formed their own connexion in 1811, led by Hugh Bourne, a carpenter, and William Clowes, a potter, who had been expelled for holding American-style camp-meetings at Mow Cop (Staffs.). Condemned by the middle-class churches as... Read more |
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Hugh Wolff
Hugh Wolff Hugh Wolff (born 1953) achieved a national reputation as a talented conductor and in the 1990s was considered one of a handful of Americans who would lead the major orchestras of the future. He was musical director of the New Jersey Symphony and principal conductor of the St. Paul... Read more |
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Mega-Stars of the '80s; They're the Symbolic Soul of a Market-Mad Nation
...CULTURAL HISTORIANS of the future...likes to talk about his...re fantasy men, these two...reassuring memory of simpler...Marlboro Man, Knute Rockne...a mix of Fred Astaire...Howard Hughes and ... |