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Santa Fe Opera

(Encyclopedia) Santa Fe Opera, summer opera festival held outside Santa Fe, N. Mex., founded 1957. Featuring outstanding young singers and musicians, it presents a wide variety of operas from the…

Royal Titles and Nobility Ranks in a Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government where a single person, called a monarch, rules as the head of state. The position of monarch is often inherited through a family, making it a hereditary system -…

Kemuel

(Encyclopedia) KemuelKemuelkēmy&oomacr;ˈĕl [key], in the Bible. 1 Father of Aram. 2 Ephraimite prince. 3 Levite prince.

Alexander, prince of Bulgaria

(Encyclopedia) Alexander (Alexander of Battenberg), 1857–93, prince of Bulgaria (1879–86); second son of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt and nephew of Alexander II of Russia. He served in the…

Rupert, Prince

(Encyclopedia) Rupert, Prince, 1619–82, count palatine of the Rhine. Born in Prague, he was the son of Frederick the Winter King, elector palatine and king of Bohemia, and Elizabeth, daughter of…

Prince Rupert

(Encyclopedia) Prince Rupert, city (1991 pop. 16,620), W British Columbia, Canada, on Kaien Island, in Chatham Sound near the mouth of the Skeena River, S of the Alaska border. A railroad and highway…

Prince, Hal

(Encyclopedia) Prince, Hal (Harold Smith Prince), 1928–2019, American theatrical producer and director, b. New York City. After working as an assistant stage manager to George Abbott, Prince became…

Prince, Morton

(Encyclopedia) Prince, Morton, 1854–1929, American physician, b. Boston, M.D. Harvard, 1879. He specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology as a physician in Boston and as a teacher at Tufts (…