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| MARTIN LUTHER KING |
| Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in
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| MAGIC JOHNSON |
| Joining the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association in 1979, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born 1959) became one of basketball's most popular stars.
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BILL CLINTON |
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (born 1946) won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then
defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd… more
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Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego is a monument, if no longer a memorial, to Jack Murphy, for twenty-eight years columnist and sports editor of the San Diego Union. As San Diego Stadium, the structure rose in Mission Valley in the 1960s in gre...
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In the economically uncertain and often morally seamy world of sporting journalism in nineteenth-century America, Frank Queen and his weekly New York Clipper occupied a place that was both in step and oddly out of step with his sportswriti...
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Quentin Bell, younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, has been not only a biographer but also a painter, sculptor, and art critic. Uniquely qualified for understanding and interpreting the world of Bloomsbury, his superlative two-volume bio...
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The 1980 recipient of the University of Honduras Poetry Prize, José Quesada is one of a group of contemporary Honduran poets and artists dedicated to establishing and developing a poetics of sociopolitical concerns. Together with tw...
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Ann Quin was one of the major figures in a group of experimental writers who emerged in Britain during the 1960s. Although, unlike others in this group, she did not concern herself with literary manifestos or even, initially, regard hersel...
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Quincy Troupe, a multi-talented writer, has made contributions to literature as a poet, performer, editor, publisher, teacher, and scholar. He has published two volumes of poetry, coauthored a book of nonfiction, and edited two anthologies...
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During the 1730s, Samuel Quincy, B.A., was not the most popular clergyman in Savannah, Georgia. His later tenure in New England, however, proved much more favorable to him. Indeed the list of subscribers to the 1750 Twenty Sermons is impre...
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Naomi Quiñónez is one of an active group of multiculturally diverse artists from Los Angeles who created a grassroots cultural and literary movement. These artists have been motivated by the notion that their social commitmen...
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Rather than focusing on the political, philosophical or linguistic aspects of Chicano experience, communicated in abstract schemes or through a conglomerate speaker, poet Leroy V. Quintana draws upon oral tradition to introduce readers to ...
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Quintilian (ca. 35-ca. 99) was a Roman rhetorician and literary critic. His influence on rhetoric, literary criticism, and educational theory was profound. Quintilian, or Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, was born at Calagurris in Spain, the son...
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Little is known about the author of the only full-length biography of Alexander the Great written in Latin. Doubts have been raised not only about his name but also about the title of his work and the era in which he composed it. In regard...
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