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- Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
18: ...his image to shame the powerful into action. Not only did she visit alms houses and write reports, but...
20: ...resumed her lobbying for the mentally ill, now by letter more often than in person. The two dozen mental h...
22: Dix lived, however, not only to see mental hospitals grow in number but also ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...was the only asset. That same year, she made her only film appearance, starring in a two-reeler based ...
17: ... his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended to Bessie, wrote...
21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
21: ...g, Crow released ''[[C'mon, C'mon]]''. Musically unlike any of her other records, the project had a mo...
23: ... ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and posting an open letter explaining her opposition on her website. [http:/... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C...
41: ... Aucoin]], a friend of Amos'. A contest was held online to create a music video for the song, and it r...
45: ...itional incentive to buy the album rather than download its contents illicitly, the CD also served as ...
91: ...ack''''': Amos' fifth tour was [[North America]]-only. The first part of the tour was co-headlining wi...
102: ...raftsmen could come cut it into parts". After the letter the owner miraculously surfaced. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
11: ...ang was usually limited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal c...
31: ...murder of a store owner during a robbery, albeit only as the driver. However, the wife of the murder v...
35: ...eople that floated through it, history books can only speculate with regard to details and direct resp...
39: ...vivors later testified that their side had fired only fourteen rounds in the conflict. Contrary to the...
87: ...ever been authenticated. (Ford received a similar letter around the same time from someone claiming to be ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ... career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debati...
33: Unlike her contemporary [[Billy Sunday]], McPherson w...
58: ...te slavery]]." Kennedy later said she tossed the letter away, believing her daughter to be dead. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: ...tizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[P...
22: ...sy|lepers]], all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that ...
31: ...particularly the Home for the Dying, was thought unlikely to be of usable quality by the crew. After r...
79: ...which asserts [[natural family planning]] is the only acceptable form of [[birth control]], even in ca...
86: ... variant of [[Pascal's Wager]]). Simon Leys, in a letter to the ''New York Review of Books'', wrote: "Eith... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
9: ...ns]] into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[...
15: ...the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers ...
17: ...o be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-...
20: ... It seems therefore that Kowerski's loyalty has only been called into question because of these instr...
26: ...ed from substantial action. Her situation would only change in [[1944]], in a turn of events that wou... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
18: ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for h...
56: ...ed... with the inevitable hilarious result, made only the more funny by the alliterative, tongue twist...
60: ...he '''Cousin Ernie''' story arc. Lucy receives a letter informing her that her "Best Friend's Roommate's ...
73: ...w.lucilledesireeball.com/index.html Lucille Ball Online] - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...ard]] she claimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when s...
11: ...ward|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawford ever worked togethe...
17: Davis's only natural-born daughter was by her third husband, ...
27: ...te Davis Eyes]]" became a hit single, Davis wrote letters to songwriters [[Donna Weiss]] and [[Jackie DeSh...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Back (949 bytes)
10: ...'''The Backs''' (in the plural and with a capital letter) means the area behind the main colleges, alongsi... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
5: ...ent [[typeface|font]]s while still being the same letter.<sup>1</sup> For example, almost always the shap...
9: The word "[[Crest (heraldry)|crest]]" is commonly used to refer to a coat-of-arms. However, in her...
22: ...of arms''</td><td>''A shield, traditionally used only by a man''</td></tr>
28: ...her rare tinctures. The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of herald...
69: ...redundancy by referring to a particular tincture only once in the blazon, but the College of Arms has ... - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
6: ...ural, but, by an old convention, doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just a...
16: ... case letter]]s. Manuscripts using all upper case letters are called '''[[uncial]]s''', those using all lo...
19: ...e]]; for example, a library's collection of the [[letter]]s or a [[diary]] that some historical personage ... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...in metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in them is called [[epigraphy]]. Epigraphy ...
14: ... sound and meaning ideographically, kana express only sound without regard to meaning. Three types of ...
98: ...nce, they were usually used for secular purposes only.
100: ...uals to the Alef's height as a measuring unit for letter proportions.
115: ...as the [[cursive]] [[Naskh]] script, with rounder letters and thin lines; with refinement of its writing t... - Minuscule (2323 bytes)
1: ... were written entirely in [[majuscule]] (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and...
3: ...became common to mix both majuscule and minuscule letters in a single text.
5: ...e'' is still less likely to be used for minuscule letters.
8: Traditionally, more important letters - those beginning sentences or [[noun]]s - were ...
10: ... every sentence seems to be imported (and is commonly not used when printing Ancient Greek materials e... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
1: ... strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like ...
3: ...d, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting.
10: ....bible.arp.jpg|thumb|250px|An illuminated capital letter P in a Bible of 1407AD, on display in Malmesbury ...
11: ...r P in the Malmesbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Gothic script.]]
18: ...cule]] developed. Stocky, richly textured [[blackletter]] was first seen around the [[13th century]] and ... - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
6: ...ax seal. Most governments still attach seals to [[letters patent]]. While many instruments required seals...
8: ...led [[letters secret]]. Seals are no longer commonly used in this way, except for ceremonial purposes...
23: ...ting. Even in modern times, seals are still commonly used instead of handwritten [[signature|signatur... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in many ot...
52: ...s as to the general nature of the sounds that the letters represented. See W. Sidney Allen, ''Vox Graeca &...
268: ... Modern Greek lose it, depending on the beginning letter of the next word (if it's a consonant,n is usuall...
269: ...e" instead of the correct "give me", and it certainly is not an obligatory phonological rule of the Gr...
284: The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, each with a capital and small form: - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...ned from China as [[Kublai Khan]]'s envoys with a letter for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educated peopl...
23: ... have proposed that he did not get that far, and only retold information he had heard from others. Tho... - Crumhorn (1946 bytes)
6: ...ment resembles a banana, or more prosaically, the letter J.
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