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111Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount — known as Lord Nelson born Sept. 29, 1758, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Eng. died Oct. 21, 1805, at sea, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain British naval commander. He entered the navy in 1770 and served in the West Indies from 1777 to 1783. In 1793 he was… …
112Pitt, William, the Younger — (1759–1806) British statesman and prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06). The son of William Pitt, he entered Parliament in 1781 and served as chancellor of the Exchequer (1782–83). He was appointed prime minister in 1783 and undertook reforms that… …
113Vermeer, Johannes — born Oct. 31, 1632, Delft, Neth. died Dec. 15, 1675, Delft Dutch painter. His parents were tavern keepers. He twice served as head of the Delft artists guild but seems to have depended on his activities as an art dealer to support his family. He… …
114Weston, Edward — born March 24, 1886, Highland Park, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 1, 1958, Carmel, Calif. U.S. photographer. A camera enthusiast from boyhood, Weston began his professional career by opening a portrait studio in Glendale, Calif. His early work was in the… …
115choral music — ▪ vocal music Introduction music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal i.e., consisting of two or more autonomous vocal (vocal music) lines. It has a long history in European… …
116Fuller, Melville Weston — ▪ chief justice of United States born Feb. 11, 1833, Augusta, Maine, U.S. died July 4, 1910, Sorrento, Maine eighth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1888–1910), whose amiability, impartiality, and rare administrative… …
117Mármol, José — ▪ Argentine writer born Dec. 2, 1817, Buenos Aires, Arg. died Aug. 9, 1871, Buenos Aires Argentine poet and novelist whose outspoken denunciation in verse and prose of the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas (Rosas, Juan Manuel de)… …
118Mehmed Siyah-Kalem — ▪ Islamic painter flourished 15th century, , Turkestan or Iran artist known solely by the attribution of his name to a remarkable series of paintings preserved in the Imperial Ottoman Palace Library (Topkapı Saray). Nothing is known… …
119Pan Tianshou — ▪ Chinese artist Wade Giles romanization P an T ien shou born March 14, 1897, Ninghai, Zhejiang province, China died September 5, 1971, Hangzhou Chinese painter, art educator, and art theorist who was one of the most important traditional …
120religious experience — Introduction specific experiences such as wonder at the infinity of the cosmos, the sense of awe and mystery in the presence of the holy, feelings of dependence on a divine power or an unseen order, the sense of guilt and anxiety… …
