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91Dolley Madison — This article is about a U.S. First Lady (the wife of James Madison). For the article on the baked goods brand, see Dolly Madison. Dolley Madison Dolley Madison, portrait by Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1804 First Lady of the United States …
92John Singer Sargent — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #6495ED name = John Singer Sargent imagesize = 270px caption = Self Portrait , 1906, oil on canvas, 70 x 53 cm, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. birthname = birthdate = January 12, 1856 location = Florence, Italy deathdate =… …
93Land of Oz — For the theme park, see Land of Oz (theme park). Land of Oz portal Land of Oz …
94Mirza Ghalib — Urdu poet of Mughal era Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Born 27 December 1797(1797 12 27) Agra, Maratha Confederacy Died 15 February 1869(1869 02 15) (aged 72) Delhi, Punjab, British India Pen name …
95Literary Society — La Literary Society est un club londonien fondé par le poète William Wordsworth et quelques amis en 1807. Ses membres sont le plus souvent des personnalités de la littérature britannique mais on y rencontre aussi des artistes et des hommes… …
96Florence — /flawr euhns, flor /, n. 1. Italian, Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany. 464,425. 2. a city in NW Alabama, on the Tennessee River. 37,029. 3. a city in E South Carolina. 30,062. 4. a… …
97Beethoven, Ludwig van — (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to… …
98Gainsborough, Thomas — (baptized May 14, 1727, Sudbury, Eng. died Aug. 2, 1788, London) British painter. At 13 he left his native Suffolk to study in London. By с 1750, back in Suffolk, he had established a reputation in portraiture and landscape painting. He painted… …
99ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
100Arabic literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Arabic language. The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula. At certain points in the development of… …
