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Jayalalitha, Jayaram

(Encyclopedia) Jayalalitha, Jayaram, 1948–2016, Indian film actress and politician. During her successful acting career (1964–80), she appeared in over 100 films, many of them with the Dravidian…

Miki, Takeo

(Encyclopedia) Miki, Takeo, 1907–88, Japanese politician, prime minister of Japan (1974–76). He attended Meiji Univ. and the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, and was first elected to the Diet in…

De Filippo, Eduardo

(Encyclopedia) De Filippo, EduardoDe Filippo, Eduardoādwärˈdō dā fēlĭpˈpō [key], 1900–1984, Neapolitan playwright and actor. In his scores of plays he combined pathos and farce. Napoli milionaria (…

Levine, Jack

(Encyclopedia) Levine, JackLevine, Jackləvīnˈ [key], 1915–2010, American painter, b. Boston. Levine began his career with the Federal Arts Project. His savagely realistic paintings, executed with…

Toledo, Francisco , Mexican artist

(Encyclopedia) Toledo, Francisco, 1940–2019, Mexican artist and activist, b. Francisco Benjamín López Toledo. He drew upon his Zapotec heritage for his paintings, drawings, prints, collages, ceramics…

whistle-blowing

(Encyclopedia) whistle-blowing, exposure of fraud and abuse by an employee. The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created…

Camden, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Camden, city (2020 pop. 71,791), seat of Camden co., W N.J., a port on the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia, settled 1681, inc. 1828…

Parkhurst, Charles Henry

(Encyclopedia) Parkhurst, Charles Henry, 1842–1933, American clergyman and reformer, b. Framingham, Mass., grad. Amherst 1866, and studied theology at Halle and Leipzig. He was pastor of the…

Sologub, Feodor

(Encyclopedia) Sologub, FeodorSologub, Feodorfyôˈdər sələg&oomacr;pˈ [key], pseud. of Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov, 1863–1927, Russian poet and prose writer. By profession a schoolteacher and as a…

Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl ofNottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl ofhĕnˈĭj [key]Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of, nŏtˈĭngəm [key], 1621–82, lord chancellor of England. He…