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May 2016: Obama Visits Hiroshima

U.S. News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major world news events of May 2016. 1. ISIS Strikes in Baghdad 2.…

Brewer's: Bane

really means ruin, death, or destruction (Anglo-Saxon, bana, a murderer); and “I will be his bane,” means I will ruin or murder him. Bane is, therefore, a mortal injury. My bane and…

King, B. B.

(Encyclopedia) King, B. B., 1925–2015, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the…

Rivette, Jacques Pierre Louis

(Encyclopedia) Rivette, Jacques Pierre Louis, 1928–2016, French filmmaker and critic b. Rouen. One of the French New Wave directors of the 1950s and 60s, he wrote criticism for the influential…

Gustavus I

(Encyclopedia) Gustavus IGustavus Igəstāˈvəs [key], 1496–1560, king of Sweden (1523–60), founder of the modern Swedish state and the Vasa dynasty. Known as Gustavus Eriksson before his coronation, he…

performance art

(Encyclopedia) performance art, multimedia art form originating in the 1970s in which performance is the dominant mode of expression. Perfomance art may incorporate such elements as instrumental or…
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