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Égalité, Philippe

(Encyclopedia)Égalité, Philippe: see Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'. ...

Philippe Égalité

(Encyclopedia)Philippe Égalité: see Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'. ...

Heli

(Encyclopedia)Heli hēˈlī [key], in the New Testament, father of St. Joseph. ...

Newberry, Walter Loomis

(Encyclopedia)Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804–68, American merchant and banker, b. East Windsor (in the section now South Windsor), Conn. In 1822 he entered the shipping business with his brother Oliver in Buffalo,...

Leinsdorf, Erich

(Encyclopedia)Leinsdorf, Erich ĕrˈĭkh līzˈdôrf, līntsˈ– [key], 1912–93, American conductor, b. Vienna. Leinsdorf studied at the Vienna state academy of music and in 1934 began his conducting career, ser...
 

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