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Music:
Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto:
Cesare Sterbini, based on the play by Pierre Beaumarchais
Premiere:
Rome, February 20, 1816
Though its premiere was an…
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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Similes for Two Political Char...Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'.Fragment: To the People of England Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. People…
YOUNG William Singleton , a Representative from Kentucky;
born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., April 10, 1790;
studied medicine with Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, and was graduated from the…
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