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Clodion
(Encyclopedia) ClodionClodionklōdēôNˈ [key] or Claude MichelClodionklōd mēshĕlˈ [key], 1738–1814, French rococo sculptor. He executed several important commissions under Louis XVI but is best…Poissy, Colloquy of
(Encyclopedia) Poissy, Colloquy ofPoissy, Colloquy ofpwäsēˈ [key], 1561, conference of Roman Catholic prelates and Protestant ministers, initiated by Catherine de' Medici and Michel de L'Hôpital in…Avranches
(Encyclopedia) Avranches Avranches ävräNshˈ [key], town, Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy, on the English Channel. Because of its proximity to the rocky island of Mont-…Robert Henry MICHEL, Congress, IL (1923)
MICHEL Robert Henry , a Representative from Illinois; born in Peoria, Peoria County, Ill., March 2, 1923; attended the public schools; served with the Thirty-ninth Infantry Regiment as a combat…Kaye, Nora
(Encyclopedia) Kaye, Nora (Nora Koreff), 1920–87, American ballerina, b. New York City. Kaye studied with Michel Fokine and Antony Tudor. She joined the Ballet Theatre in 1940 and scored a major…Nostradamus
(Encyclopedia) NostradamusNostradamusnŏsˌtrədāˈməs [key], 1503–66, French astrologer and physician, whose real name was Michel de Nostredame. He is reputed to have effected remarkable cures during…Basquiat, Jean-Michel
(Encyclopedia) Basquiat, Jean-MichelBasquiat, Jean-Michelbäsˌkē-ätˈ [key], 1960–88, American painter, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Born into a middle-class Haitian and Puerto Rican family, he was a 1980s art…Seychelles
(Encyclopedia) CE5 SeychellesSeychellessāshĕlzˈ [key], officially Republic of Seychelles, republic (2015 est. pop. 94,000), c.110 sq mi (285 sq km), comprising approximately 100 islands in the…Annual Directors Guild of America Awards, 1996 - 2012
The DGA Awards honor directorial excellence in film and television. There have been only five times since 1949 that the DGA film winner has not gone on to win…Quatre Bras
(Encyclopedia) Quatre BrasQuatre Braskäˈtrə bräˈ [key], village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, just south of Waterloo. There, on June 16, 1815, in a battle of the Waterloo campaign, the…