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Ramón

(Encyclopedia) Ramón: see Gómez de la Serna, Ramón. ...

Adam le Bossu

(Encyclopedia) Adam le Bossu: see Adam de la Halle. ...

Roatán

(Encyclopedia) Roatán, Honduras: see Bahía, Islas de la. ...

Plate, River

(Encyclopedia) Plate, River: see Plata, Río de la. ...

Alonso, Alicia

(Encyclopedia) Alonso, Alicia älēˈsyä älōnˈsō [key], 1921–2019, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, b. Havana as Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez y del Hoyo. Alonso danced in Broadway musi...

Gautier, Théophile

(Encyclopedia) Gautier, Théophile gōtyāˈ [key], 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic. He was a leading exponent of “art for art's sake”—the belief that formal, aesthetic beauty is the sole purpose...

Christian Brothers

(Encyclopedia) Christian Brothers: see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint. ...

Bay Islands

(Encyclopedia) Bay Islands, Honduras: see Bahía, Islas de la. ...

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

(Encyclopedia) Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de äNrēˈ də to͞olo͞ozˈ lōtrĕkˈ [key], 1864–1901, French painter and lithographer, b. Albi. Son of a wealthy nobleman, Lautrec fell and broke both legs when he was a...

Fernández de Kirchner, Cristina Elisabet

(Encyclopedia) Fernández de Kirchner, Cristina Elisabet krēstēˈnä ālēsäbātˈ fārnänˈdās dā kērchˈnâr [key], 1953–, Argentinian politician. A Peronist student activist in the 1970s, she received (1...
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