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(Encyclopedia) AmatiAmatiämäˈtē [key], Italian family of violinmakers of Cremona. The founder of the Cremona school was Andrea Amati (c.1520–c.1578), whose earliest violins date from c.1564. His…Andrea Mead Lawrence Biography
alpine skierBorn: April 19, 1932Died: March 30, 2009 (California, USA) Best Known as: Skiing gold medalist At the age of 15, Andrea Mead Lawrence placed…Andrea Yates, 2002 News
Texas mother, was convicted in March of capital murder in the 2001 deaths of three of her five children, Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months. (She was not on trial for the deaths of Luke, 3…Andrea Dworkin 2005 Deaths
Andrea DworkinAge: 58 feminist writer whose often polemical works condemned pornography and violence against women. Her critics—some of them left-wing radicals like herself—accused her of…Castagno, Andrea del
(Encyclopedia) Castagno, Andrea delCastagno, Andrea deländrĕˈä dĕl kästäˈnyō [key], c.1423–1457, major Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. His first recorded painting (1440; now destroyed),…Doria, Andrea
(Encyclopedia) Doria, AndreaDoria, Andreaändrāˈä dōˈrēä [key], b. 1466 or 1468, d. 1560, Italian admiral and statesman, of an ancient family prominent in the history of Genoa. He started his career…Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea
(Encyclopedia) Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo AndreaPozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andreakärˈlō ändrĕˈä pôtˈtsō dē bôrˈgō [key], 1764–1842. Corsican politician and diplomat in Russian service, b. Corsica. In the…Andrea Pia Yates, 2001 News
Texas mother, was charged in June with capital murder in the deaths of her five children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years. Yates reportedly suffered from postpartum depression.…Andrea SEASTRAND, Congress, CA (1941)
SEASTRAND Andrea , a Representative from California; born in Chicago, Ill., August 5, 1941; graduated DePaul University, B.A., 1963; elementary school teacher; California Federation of Republican…Giordano, Umberto
(Encyclopedia) Giordano, UmbertoGiordano, Umberto&oomacr;mbĕrˈtō [key]Giordano, Umberto jōrdäˈnō [key], 1867–1948, Italian operatic composer. His most famous work is the richly melodic Andrea…