(Encyclopedia) Catholic Emancipation, term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities. They had…
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(3 syl.). A horseman; whence a knight, a gentleman. (Latin, caballus, a horse.) The Cavalier. Eon de Beaumont, the French soldier; Chevalier d'Eon. (1728-1810.) Charles Breydel, the…
(Encyclopedia) Venturi, Robert, 1925–2018, American architect and architectural theorist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Princeton (B.A., 1947; M.F.A., 1950). An important and highly influential theorist,…
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