uncompromising
111Gentileschi, Orazio — orig. Orazio Lomi born 1562, Pisa died с 1639, London, Eng. Italian painter. He went to Rome с 1576–78 and painted frescoes in various churches (с 1590–1600). His paintings of the early 17th century reveal the influence of Caravaggio s strong… …
112Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von — born Aug. 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe Weimar German poet, novelist, playwright, and natural philosopher. In 1773 Goethe provided the Sturm und Drang movement with its first major drama, Götz von Berlichingen, and …
113Landis, Kenesaw Mountain — born Nov. 20, 1866, Millville, Ohio, U.S. died Nov. 25, 1944, Chicago, Ill. U.S. federal judge and first commissioner of professional baseball. Landis was named for a Georgia mountain where his father had been wounded as a Civil War soldier. He… …
114Mazzini, Giuseppe — born June 22, 1805, Genoa died March 10, 1872, Pisa, Italy Italian patriot and a major figure in the making of modern Italy. A lawyer, he joined the secret independence group Carbonari. After he was imprisoned for its activities, he moved to… …
115Paasikivi, Juho Kusti — born Nov. 27, 1870, Tampere, Fin. died Dec. 14, 1956, Helsinki Finnish statesman. He served in the Finnish parliament (1907–13), as minister of finance (1908–09), and as independent Finland s first prime minister in 1918. After World War I, he… …
116patristic literature — Body of literature that comprises those works (excluding the New Testament) written by Christians before the 8th century. It refers to the works of the Church Fathers. Most patristic literature is in Greek or Latin, but much survives in Syriac… …
117Duncan Smith, Iain — ▪ 2002 On Sept. 13, 2001, in the wake of its second successive crushing general election defeat, the U.K. s Conservative Party elected as its leader a right wing MP whose most distinctive policy was hostility to closer links between the U.K …
118Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
119Rembrandt van Rijn — ▪ Dutch artist Introduction in full Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt originally spelled Rembrant born July 15, 1606, Leiden, Netherlands died October 4, 1669, Amsterdam Dutch painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers… …
120Hughes, John — • Fourth bishop and first Archbishop of New York, born at Annaloghan, Co. Tyrone, Ireland, 24 June, 1797 of Patrick Hughes and Margaret McKenna: died in New York, 3 January, 1864 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hughes, John …
