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121Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger — Engraving by Wenceslas Hollar, 1644, of a self portrait of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1627 (now lost). Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards) (Bruges, c. 1561/62 – 19 January 1636) was an artist of the Tudor court, described… …
122Wally Hedrick — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #6495ED name = Wally Hedrick imagesize = caption = Wally Hedrick, c.1967, in studio working on The War Room (1967) birthname = birthdate = 1928 location = Pasadena, California deathdate = 2003 deathplace = San Francisco …
123Franklin Place — Franklin Place, designed by Charles Bulfinch and built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1793 95, included a row of sixteen three story brick townhouses that extended in a 480 foot [Whitehill, Walter Muir and Kennedy, Lawrence W. Boston: A… …
124Technology of the Discworld — The technology depicted in Terry Pratchett s Discworld novels takes two forms: magical and mechanical. Nearly all technology early in the series is at least partially magical, but in recent books there has been something of an industrial… …
125Cupid's Arrows — is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is a Kiplingesque investigation that is to say a strange… …
126theatre — /thee euh teuhr, theeeu /, n. theater. * * * I Building or space in which performances are given before an audience. It contains an auditorium and stage. In ancient Greece, where Western theatre began (5th century BC), theatres were constructed… …
127Voltaire — Voltairean, Voltairian, adj., n. /vohl tair , vol /; Fr. /vawl terdd /, n. (François Marie Arouet) 1694 1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist. * * * orig. François Marie Arouet born Nov. 21, 1694, Paris, France… …
128Aegean civilizations — The Bronze Age civilizations that arose and flourished с 3000–1000 BC in the region bordering the Aegean Sea. They included Crete, the Cyclades, the Greek mainland south from Thessaly, including the Peloponnese, and Macedonia, Thrace, and western …
