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Joseph Addison
Language; Encyclopedias
A celebrated English essayist, studied at Oxford, became Fellow of Magdalen, was a Whig in politics, held a succession of Government appointments, resigned the last for a large pension; was ...
Aeschines
Language; Encyclopedias
A celebrated Athenian orator, rival of Demosthenes, who in the end prevailed over him by persuading the citizens to believe he was betraying them to Philip of Macedon, so that he left Athens and ...
Edward Alleyn
Language; Encyclopedias
A celebrated actor in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., the founder of Dulwich College, and was voluntarily along with his wife one of its first beneficiaries and inmates; was a contemporary of ...
Pierre d' Ailly
Language; Encyclopedias
A cardinal of the Romish Church, and eminent as a theologian, presided at the council of Constance which condemned Huss (1350-1420).
Mary Anderson
Language; Encyclopedias
A celebrated actress, native of California; in 1890 married M. Navarro de Viano of New York; b. 1859.
Amati
Language; Encyclopedias
A celebrated family of violin-makers; Andrea and Niccolo, brothers, at Cremona, in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ulysses Aldrovandi
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A famous Italian naturalist of Bologna, who collected an immense body of interesting facts in natural history, published partly in his lifetime and partly after his death (1522-1607).
