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Albert Belle Albert Belle
Albert Belle 1966— Professional baseball player At a Glance… A Hero for Cleveland Indians’ Rising Star Stardom and Controversy Sources One of the most feared hitters in the American League, outfielder Albert Belle has spent his entire career to date with the Cleveland Indians.... Read more
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound 4th earl of Minto Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound 4th earl of Minto
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Minto, 4th earl of , 1845-1914, British colonial administrator. He entered the army in 1867, eventually becoming (1884) military secretary to Lord Lansdowne, governor-general of Canada. As a popular governor-general himself (1898-1904) Minto maintained cordial... Read more
Entente Cordiale 1904 Entente Cordiale 1904
Entente cordiale. Friendly relations between England and France, stopping short of a formal alliance. The term was coined at Haddo House, the country home of the 4th earl of Aberdeen, by the French chargé d'affaires, the comte de Jarnac, in 1843. It is sometimes applied retrospectively to the... Read more
Stoicism Stoicism
Stoicism , school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (in Cyprus) c.300 BC The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile [Gr.,=painted porch], at Athens, a colonnade near the Agora, to hear their master Zeno lecture. He had studied with Crates the Cynic, and his own... Read more
Saint Zacharias Saint Zacharias
Zacharias, Saint (1884–1939) ( Zachary) Pope (741–52). He strengthened the Holy See, and during his papacy he achieved a 20-year truce with the Lombards. Along with St Boniface, he established cordial relations with the Franks by supporting the accession of Pepin III (the Short) to... Read more
Bandung Conference Bandung Conference
Bandung Conference meeting of representatives of 29 African and Asian nations, held at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955. The aim—to promote economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism—was more or less achieved in an atmosphere of cordiality. China played a prominent part and... Read more
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apricot [Arabic from Lat.,=early ripe], tree, Prunus armeniaca, and its fruit, of the plum genus of the family Rosaceae ( rose family), native to temperate Asia and long cultivated in Armenia. The fruit is used raw, canned, preserved, and dried. California is the chief place of cultivation in... Read more
Abdullah II Abdullah II
Abdullah II äbdool´lä , 1962-, king of Jordan (1999-), b. Amman, educated at Sandhurst and Oxford in England and Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. He joined (1984) the Jordanian military, rose swiftly, became (1994) head of Jordan's Special Forces, and attained (1998) the rank of... Read more
Hideyoshi Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi (Hideyoshi Toyotomi) , 1536-98, Japanese warrior and dictator. He entered the service of Nobunaga as his sandal holder and rose to become his leading general. After Nobunaga's death Hideyoshi ruled as civilian dictator. He set out to unify Japan, violently disrupted by a century of... Read more

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