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Le Gallienne, Richard
(Encyclopedia) Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866–1947, English man of letters. As literary critic and contributor to the Yellow Book, he was associated with the fin-de-siècle aesthetes of the 1890s before…Vermeer, Jan
(Encyclopedia) Vermeer, Jan or JohannesVermeer, Jan or Johannesvərmērˈ, Dutch yän vərmārˈ, yōhänˈəs [key], 1632–75, Dutch genre and landscape painter. He was born in Delft, where he spent his entire…Brewer's: Slave
(1 syl.). This is an example of the strange changes which come over some words. The Slavi were a tribe which once dwelt on the banks of the Dnieper, and were so called from slav (noble,…Slaves in the Family
Author:Edward BallPublisher:Ballantine Edward Ball has done what few white Americans have dared: he's searched the dusty annals of his family history to uncover specifics of the slave-holding…What to the Slave on the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass The Hypocrisy of American Slavery Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with…Aesop's Fables: The Slave and the Lion
by Aesop The Bear and the TravellersThe Flea and the ManThe Slave and the Lion A Slave ran away from his master, by whom he had been most cruelly treated, and, in order to avoid capture,…Amis, Sir Kingsley
(Encyclopedia) Amis, Sir KingsleyAmis, Sir Kingsleyāˈmĭs [key], 1922–95, English novelist. He attended St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1949) and for some 20 years taught at Oxford, Swansea, and…Flanagan, Richard
(Encyclopedia) Flanagan, Richard, 1961–, Australian novelist, b. Longford, Tasmania, studied Univ. of Tasmania (grad. 1982), Oxford (Rhodes scholar). Flanagan, whose novels explore the past and…What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States
by Mary Church Terrell Washington, D.C., has been called "The Colored Man's Paradise." Whether this sobriquet was given to the national capital in bitter irony by a member of the handicapped…Cullen, Countee
(Encyclopedia) Cullen, CounteeCullen, Counteekounˈtēˈ [key], 1903–46, American poet, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ. 1925, M.A. Harvard, 1926. A major writer of the Harlem Renaissance—a…