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Prus, Bolesław

(Encyclopedia) Prus, BolesławPrus, Bolesławbôlĕsläfˈ pr&oomacr;s [key], 1845?–1912, Polish writer, whose original name was Alexander Głowacki. Prus is considered a founder of the modern Polish…

Austen, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Austen, JaneAusten, Janeôˈstən [key], 1775–1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the first 25 years of her life at “Steventon,” her father's Hampshire vicarage…

prejudice

(Encyclopedia) prejudice, unsubstantiated prejudgment of an individual or group, favorable or unfavorable in character, tending to action in a consonant direction. The hostility that prejudice can…

The Gay Rights Movement of the 20th Century

Source: Excerpted from The Reader's Companion to American History. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Late in the [19th] century, as large cities allowed for greater anonymity, as wage…

LGBT Pride Month: Origins and Importance

Pride month, celebrated every year in June, serves as a tribute and a show of honor to members of the LGBTQ community and others involved in the stonewall riots of June 28, 1969, in Manhattan. It is…

Important Places in the Gay-Rights Movement

From Greenwich Village to San Francisco, sites that have helped shape the gay-rights movement The Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York. Source: WikiCommons Related Links American Gay…

Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton

(Encyclopedia) Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of BrightonOlivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brightonōlĭvˈē-āˌ [key], 1907–89, English actor, director, and producer. He made his stage…

James, P. D.

(Encyclopedia) James, P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park), 1920–2014, English mystery novelist, b. Oxford. From 1964 to 1979 she worked in the forensic science and…

Pride, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Pride, Thomas, d. 1658, English parliamentary soldier in the English civil war. In Dec., 1648, acting on the orders of the army council, he carried out Pride's Purge, expelling from…