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Giolitti, Giovanni

(Encyclopedia) Giolitti, GiovanniGiolitti, Giovannijōvänˈnē jōlētˈtē [key], 1842–1928, Italian public official, five times premier (1892–93, 1903–5, 1906–9, 1911–14, 1920–21). He entered parliament…

Fender, Freddie

(Baldemar Huerta) singerBirthplace: San Benito, Tex.Born: 1937Died: 2006

Luigi Pirandello

Italian writer Luigi Pirandello was one of the 20th century's great dramatists, known especially for his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. A Sicilian, he studied in Rome before earning his…

Enrico Fermi

A key figure in the development of nuclear fission, Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who worked in the United States on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret plan to develop the world's first…

Carlo Ponzi

Carlo (or Charles) Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who bilked millions of dollars out of thousands of hopeful investors in the 1920s, in what has since become known as a Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi arrived in…

Yves Montand

Name at birth: Ivo LiviYves Montand was a popular french nightclub singer and movie actor, most famous for his dramatic role in the 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear. Born in Italy, his family fled to…

Oaxaca, state, Mexico

(Encyclopedia) OaxacaOaxacawähäˈkä [key], state (1990 pop. 3,019,560), 36,375 sq mi (94,211 sq km), S Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean and its arm, the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Oaxaca is the capital. The…

Generation of '98

(Encyclopedia) Generation of '98, Spanish literary and cultural movement in the first two decades of the 20th cent. It was so named by Azorín (see Martínez Ruiz, José) in 1913 to designate a group of…