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Mármol, José

(Encyclopedia) Mármol, JoséMármol, Joséhōsāˈ märˈmôl [key], 1817–71, Argentine writer of the romantic school. His invectives against Juan Manuel de Rosas earned him the nickname “the poetic hangman…

Brewer's: Childe Harold

A man sated of the world, who roams from place to place to flee from himself. The “childe” is, in fact, Lord Byron himself, who was only twenty-one when he began, and twenty-eight when he…

Hassam, Childe

(Encyclopedia) Hassam, Childe (Frederick Childe Hassam)Hassam, Childechīld hăsˈəm [key], 1859–1935, American painter and printmaker, b. Boston, studied in Paris. With their flickering light and airy…

Brewer's: Childe

as Childe Harold, Childe of Ellechilde Waters, Childe Roland, Childe Tristram, Childe Arthur, etc. In all these cases the word “Childe” is a title of honour, like the infante and infanta…

Ali Pasha

(Encyclopedia) Ali PashaAli Pashaälēˈ päshäˈ [key], 1744?–1822, Turkish pasha [military governor] of Yannina (now Ioánnina, Greece), a province of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). He was called the…

Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron

(Encyclopedia) Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th BaronByron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baronbīˈrən, 1788–1824, English poet and satirist. Ranked with Shelley and Keats as one of the great…

Brewer's: Pilgrimage

(3 syl.). The chief places in the West were (1) Walsingham and Canterbury (England); (2) Four-vières, Puy, and St. Denis (France); (3) Rome, Loretto, Genetsano, and Assisi (Italy); (4)…

impasto

(Encyclopedia) impastoimpastoĭmpăsˈtō, –päˈstō [key], thickly applied paint that projects from the picture surface. Such works as Childe Hassam's Allies Day (1917; National Gall. of Art, Washington,…

The Koran/Sura XXII — The Pilgrimage

Sura XXII — The Pilgrimage MEDINA.[1163] —78 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful O MEN of Mecca, fear your Lord. Verily, the earthquake of the last Hour will be a…

Harold

(Encyclopedia) Harold, 1022?–1066, king of England (1066). The son of Godwin, earl of Wessex, he belonged to the most powerful noble family of England in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Through…