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Archipenko, Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Archipenko, AlexanderArchipenko, Alexanderärkhĭpĕnˈkō [key], 1887–1964, Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev. He moved to Moscow in 1906 and to Paris in 1908. There he began to adapt…

Hugh of Saint Victor

(Encyclopedia) Hugh of Saint Victor, 1096–1141, French or German philosopher and theologian, a canon regular of the monastery of St. Victor, Paris, from c.1115. In 1133 he was made head of the…

Johns Hopkins University

(Encyclopedia) Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5…

home schooling

(Encyclopedia) home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's…

Isaacs, Susan Sutherland

(Encyclopedia) Isaacs, Susan Sutherland, 1885–1948, British educator. After studying at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, she became a lecturer in early childhood education. A disciple of…

Levi, Edward Hirsch

(Encyclopedia) Levi, Edward HirschLevi, Edward Hirschlĕvˈē, lēˈvē [key], 1911–2000, American lawyer, legal educator, and public official, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago and Yale Univ. law school…

academies of art

(Encyclopedia) academies of art, official organizations of established artists. Lorenzo de' Medici's informal circle of great artists and thinkers was modeled on similar groups formed in classical…

Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen

(Encyclopedia) Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-KohenAl-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohenäl-fäˈsē [key], 1013–1103, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar of the very late Gaonic period, b. near Fès, N Africa. He…