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Notable Dancers and Choreographers

Alvin Ailey, Jr. See also African-American Visual and Performing Artist Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater Personalities Women Musicians and Dancers People in the News…

Iraq War Timeline, 2007

by Beth Rowen 1920s–1999 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007• 2008 • 2009 Next: 2008 Jan. 4,…

Glass, Philip

(Encyclopedia) Glass, Philip, 1937–, American composer, b. Baltimore. Considered one of the most innovative of contemporary composers, he was a significant figure in the development of minimalism in…

iconoclasm

(Encyclopedia) iconoclasmiconoclasmīkŏnˈōklăzəm [key] [Gr.,=image breaking], opposition to the religious use of images. Veneration of pictures and statues symbolizing sacred figures, Christian…

Curie

(Encyclopedia) CurieCuriekürēˈ [key], family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. Warsaw, are known for…