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111Lynne Carol — (June 29 1914, Monmouthshire Wales ndash;30 June 1990, Blackpool) was an English actress made famous by playing busybody Martha Longhurst in the soap opera Coronation Street from the second episode in 1960 until the character was killed off in… …
112Anna Williams (poet) — Anna Williams (1706 – 6 September 1783) was a poet and companion of Samuel Johnson. LifeEarly lifeShe was born at Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire to Zachariah Williams (1668/73–1755) (a scientist and doctor) and his wife, Martha. Her father provided… …
113Richard Rawdon Stawell — Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell KBE, (14 March 1864 – 18 April 1935) was an Australian doctor, president of Victorian branch of the British Medical Association.Early lifeStawell was the sixth soncite web… …
114Four Anniversaries for the Piano — Background The piece Four Anniversaries for the Piano was composed in 1948 by the great American composer Leonard Bernstein. His most famous works include West Side Story (1957). The piece was written for solo piano and contains four movements,… …
115Gregory Woods — Articleissues tone=March 2008 expand=March 2008Gregory Woods (born in 1953 in Egypt) is a British poet who grew up in Ghana. Woods began his teaching career at the University of Salerno. Since 1990 he has worked at Nottingham Trent University,… …
116Pimpinone — is a comic opera by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann with a libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius. Its full title is Die Ungleiche Heirat zwischen Vespetta und Pimpinone oder Das herrsch süchtige Camer Mägden ( The Unequal Marriage… …
117The Bolt (Shostakovich) — The Bolt, Op. 27, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931. It is a full length ballet with three acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Vladimir Smirnov. It was premiered on April 8, 1931, by the Academic Theatre of Opera and… …
118waspishly — See waspish. * * * …
119Aristophanes — Aristophanic /euh ris teuh fan ik/, adj. /ar euh stof euh neez /, n. 448? 385? B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. * * * born с 450 died с 388 BC Greek playwright. An Athenian, he began his career as a comic dramatist in 427. He wrote approximately… …
120beware — /bi wair /, v.t. 1. to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit. v.i. 2. to be cautious or careful: Beware of the dog. [1150 1200; ME, from phrase of warning be ware. See BE,… …
