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Pathet Lao
Pathet Lao , left-wing nationalist group that was ultimately victorious in the Laotian civil war that began in the mid-1950s. The name was first used in 1950 by Lao forces after the they joined the Viet Minh 's revolt against the French, and it became the generic term for the Lao Communists. In... Read more |
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Prince Souphanouvong
Prince Souphanouvong , 1909-95, Laotian government official; half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma . Although a member of Laos's royal family, he was an active nationalist and fought the French as a member of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao . After Laos gained independence, he joined (1958) a... Read more |
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Prince Souvanna Phouma
Prince Souvanna Phouma , 1901-84, government official of Laos. Of royal descent, he was trained as an engineer. From 1950 he held a variety of key government posts, including the premiership (1951-54, 1956-58, and 1960). Caught between U.S. and Vietnamese attempts to control Laos from 1954-75, he... Read more |
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personification
personification figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. John Ruskin termed sentimentalized, exaggerated personification the "pathetic fallacy." See... Read more |
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Plain of Jars
Plain of Jars region, N Laos, at the northern end of the Annamese Cordillera . Over 300 jars, c.1,500 to 2,000 years old, are scattered across its landscape. Averaging 272 lbs (600 kg), the jars range from 3 to 10 ft (1-3 m) in height. Their origin and function remain mysteries. From the mid-1960s... Read more |
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Cowardice
136. Cowardice (See also Boastfulness, Timidity.) Acres, Bob a swaggerer lacking in courage. [Br. Lit.: The Rivals ] Bobadill, Captain vainglorious braggart, vaunts achievements while rationalizing faintheartedness. [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour ] chicken slang insult used toward the... Read more |
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Geneva Agreement on Laos
Geneva Agreement on Laos (1962).In Southeast Asia, Laos had descended by 1961 into a threeway civil war that was becoming internationalized as part of the Cold War. Struggling to control the country were Pathet Lao Communists, backed by North Vietnam and the Soviet Union; Souvanna Phouma's... Read more |
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Simeon Solomon
Solomon, Simeon (b London, 9 Oct. 1840; d London, 14 Aug. 1905). British painter and illustrator, a member of a well-known family of artists. He was part of Rossetti's circle and a friend of Burne-Jones, and his work shows strong Pre-Raphaelite influence. In the 1860s he built up a reputation as an... Read more |
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Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand , 1868-1918, French poet and dramatist. In 1890 appeared his first volume of verse, Les Musardises. His first plays were light, fanciful, and charmingly poetic, though of slight substance— Les Romanesques (1894, tr., The Romancers, 1899); La Princesse lointaine (1895, tr.... Read more |
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