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Thorvaldsen, Albert Bertel

(Encyclopedia) Thorvaldsen or Thorwaldsen, Albert BertelThorvaldsen or Thorwaldsen, Albert Bertelboth: älˈbĕrt bĕrˈtəl tôrˈvälsən [key], 1770–1844, Danish sculptor, b. Copenhagen. In 1797 he went to…

Notable Baseball Players

Babe Ruth See also Cy Young Award Rookie of the Year National Baseball Hall of Fame People in the News Recent Obituaries Related Links Baseball Summary: Stats Major League…

Baseball's 15th Perfect Game

Baseball's 15th Perfect Game   Wasn't this supposed to be the year of the home run? Then how is it that Major League Baseball has seen a 20-strikeout game and a perfect game…

George Herbert Walker BUSH, Congress, TX (1924)

BUSH, George Herbert Walker, (son of Prescott Sheldon Bush, father of President George W. Bush), a Representative from Texas and a Vice President of the United States and 41st President of the…

The Murder of Medgar Evers - Civil Rights Cases

Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers in 1994, 30 years after the fact by Borgna Brunner Related Links Black History MonthEncyclopedia: Civil Rights Civil Rights Heroes…

Claude Lorrain

(Encyclopedia) Claude LorrainClaude Lorrainklōd lôrăNˈ [key], whose original name was Claude Gelée or GelléeClaude Lorrainzhəlāˈ [key], 1600–1682, French painter, b. Lorraine. Claude was the foremost…

Italic languages

(Encyclopedia) Italic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that…

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique

(Encyclopedia) Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueIngres, Jean Auguste DominiquezhäN ōgüstˈ dômēnēkˈ ăNˈgrə [key], 1780–1867, French painter, b. Montauban; son of a sculptor. He studied with J. L. David…

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

(Encyclopedia) Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi daCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi damēkālänˈjālō mārēˈzē dä kärävädˈjō [key] or Amerigi da CaravaggioAmerigi da Caravaggioäˌmārēˈjē [key], 1571–1610,…

Scarlatti, Alessandro

(Encyclopedia) Scarlatti, AlessandroScarlatti, Alessandroälĕs-sänˈdrō skärlätˈtē [key], 1660–1725, Italian composer. He may have studied with Carissimi in Rome, where his first opera was produced in…