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Llosa, Mario Vargas
(Encyclopedia)Llosa, Mario Vargas: see Vargas Llosa, Mario.Vargas Llosa, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Vargas Llosa, Mario mär´y vär´gäs y´sä [key], 1936–, Peruvian novelist and politician, b. Arequipa. Although his works contain much external realism, emphasizing the ugly and grotesque, h...Mario
(Encyclopedia)Mario mär´y [key], 1810–83, stage name of Giovanni Matteo, Cavaliere di Candia, Italian tenor. An officer of the Piedmontese guard, he went to Paris in 1836 and studied at the Paris Conservatory...Benedetti, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Benedetti, Mario, 1920–2009, Uruguayan writer, one of Latin America's most popular, influential, and prolific authors. The son of Italian immigrants, he grew up and was educated in Montevideo. Bened...Andretti, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Andretti, Mario ndrt´ [key], 1940–, American auto racing driver, b. Italy. He is the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500 (1969), stock racing's Daytona 500 (1967), and the internatio...Monti, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Monti, Mario, 1943–, Italian economist and political leader. After studying at Bocconi Univ., Milan, and at Yale, he taught economics at the Univ. of Turin (1970–85) and then at Bocconi Univ., whe...Lemieux, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Lemieux, Mario lmyö´ [key], 1965–, Canadian ice hockey player, b. Montreal. A star for the Pittsburgh Penguins, he was the team's first pick in the 1984 National Hockey League (NHL) draft and wa...Soares, Mário
(Encyclopedia)Soares, Mário (Mário Alberto Nobre Lópes Soares)mä´ryoo swä´rsh [key], 1924–2017, Portuguese politician. Soares rose to prominence as a vocal critic of the regime of António Salazar and ...Draghi, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Draghi, Mario mä´ dräg´ [key], 1947–, Italian economist and government and international official, b. Rome, grad. Sapienza Univ. of Rome (1970), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D...Molina, Mario
(Encyclopedia)Molina, Mario, 1943–, Mexican chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1972. Molina was a professor at the Univ. of California, Irvine from 1975 to 1982 and a researcher at the Jet Propulsion L...Browse by Subject
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