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41The Chances — is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher. It was one of Fletcher s great popular successes, frequently performed and reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The… …
42David Maurer — David Warren Maurer (1906 1981) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville from 1937 1972, and an author of numerous studies of the language of the American underworld. He received a doctorate from Ohio State University in… …
43Ben Gold — Infobox Person name = Benjamin Gold image size = caption = birth date = birth date|1898|9|8|mf=y birth place = Bessarabia, Russian Empire death date = death date and age|1985|07|24|1898|9|8|mf=y death place = North Miami Beach, Florida, United… …
44Cadet Rousselle — was a popular French song that satirized a French bailiff by the name of William Guillaume Rousselle, or Roussel, widely known as Cadet Rousselle.The manWilliam Guillaume Rousselle was born in Orgelet (Jura) on April 30, 1743, christened the same …
45Robert Dean Frisbie — Infobox Writer name = Robert Dean Frisbie imagesize = caption = nickname = Ropati birthdate = birth date|1896|4|17 birthplace = Cleveland, United States of America deathdate = death date and age|1948|11|19|1896|04|17 deathplace = Avatiu, Cook… …
46children's literature — Body of written works produced to entertain or instruct young people. The genre encompasses a wide range of works, including acknowledged classics of world literature, picture books and easy to read stories, and fairy tales, lullabies, fables,… …
47Cook, Peter Edward — ▪ 1996 British entertainer (b. Nov. 17, 1937, Torquay, Devon, England d. Jan. 9, 1995, London, England), gained international fame in the 1960s in the hit satirical revue Beyond the Fringe (with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley… …
48Rodion Markovits — The native form of this personal name is Markovits Rodion. This article uses the Western name order. Rodion Markovits (or Markovitz, born Markovits Jakab;[1] 1888 – August 27, 1948) was an Austro Hungarian born writer, journalist and lawyer, one… …
49BRUEGEL (BRUEGHEL), Pieter — (c. 1526/27 1569) Pieter Bruegel, a painter and graphic artist, was the first and most outstanding member of several generations of artists in his family. He was born near Breda in the Netherlands. Both the contemporary Italian art historian… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
50eccentric — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, absurd, adrift, afloat, alien, alternating, amorphous, amusing, anomalistic, anomalous, beezer, bizarre, bohemian, broken, capricious, careening, case, catchy, caution, changeable, changeful,… …
