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121Battle of Brice's Crossroads — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Brice s Crossroads partof=the American Civil War caption=Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site date=June 10, 1864 place=Prentiss County and Union County, Mississippi result=Confederate victory… …
122May Night — Operas by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov The Maid of Pskov (1872) May Night (1879) The Snow Maiden (1881) Mlada (1890) Christmas Eve (1895) Sadko (1896) Mozart and Salieri (1897) The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (1898) …
123Benjamin Lumley — Beginnings at His Majesty s TheatreLumley trained as a solicitor. In this capacity he gave legal advice to the financially troubled manager of His Majesty’s Theatre, Laporte, who came to rely on him extensively. Soon Lumley was taking all the… …
124L'amour de loin — L’amour de loin (Love from Afar) is the first opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho from a five act French libretto by Amin Maalouf. The opera was given its world premiere performance on 15 August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival and its US… …
125ROVNO — (Pol. Równe), capital of Rovno district, Ukraine; under Poland until the First Partition (1793) and between the world wars. A Jew is first mentioned as hailing from Rovno in 1566, and Jewish creditors from the town are recorded in 1571. When the… …
126Emperor Jianwen of Jin — (晋简文帝/晉簡文帝, pinyin Jìn Jiǎnwéndì, Wade Giles Chin Chien wen ti) (320 September 12, 372), personal name Sima Yu (司馬昱), courtesy name Daowan (道萬), was an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (265 420) in China. He was the younger brother of Emperor… …
127Elwin Ransom — is the prominent character from C. S. Lewis s Space Trilogy series. He is the main character in the books Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra , which are told almost entirely from his point of view. He is also a major character in the third… …
128History of science in the Renaissance — During the Renaissance, the rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the invention of printing which would democratize learning and allow a faster propagation of new ideas. But, at… …
