(Encyclopedia) Smith, Dame Maggie (Dame Margaret Natalie Cross), 1934–, English actress. Smith first appeared on stage in Twelfth Night (1952). With her precise, sometimes rapid-fire, articulation…
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Sydney, 1771–1845, English clergyman, writer, and wit, ordained in the Church of England in 1794. In 1798 he went as a tutor to Edinburgh, where he studied medicine,…
Bennett, Tony
(Encyclopedia) Bennett, Tony, 1926-, American singer, b. Queens, N.Y., as Anthony Dominick Benedetto. The son of Italian immigrants, Bennett began…
(Encyclopedia) Castro, Inés de, or Inez de CastroCastro, Inés de,both: īˈnĕz də kăsˈtrō, Port. ēnĕshˈ dĭ käshˈtr&oobreve; [key], d. 1355, Spanish noblewoman, a celebrated beauty, and a tragic…
(Encyclopedia) Mary I (Mary Tudor), 1516–58, queen of England (1553–58), daughter of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragón.
During the spread of Protestantism in the reign of her half-brother, Edward…
(Encyclopedia) Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744, English poet. Although his literary reputation declined somewhat during the 19th cent., he is now recognized as the greatest poet of the 18th cent. and the…
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Draining Away and Saturating with ColorMovies and FilmFilm: Aesthetics of Black and White and Color FilmBlitz-Klieg: A Brief History of Black-and-White FilmA Condensed History of ColorThe Aesthetics…
