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Abbe Suger (French pronunciation: syoo-zheh, British: soo-gehr) |
French abbot and earliest patron of Gothic architecture. B. 1081 |
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Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae) |
Nigerian novelist best known for "Things Fall Apart". B. 1930 |
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Demi Adejuyigbe (uh-did-you-eBay) |
American comedian and writer best known for his podcast "Gilmore Guys" and for his work on The Good Place. B. 1992 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che) |
Nigerian writer known for "Purple Hibiscus" B. 1977 |
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James Agee (a-jee) |
American novelist+ and film critic best known for his autobiographical work, "A Death in the Family". B. 1909 |
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Anna Akhmatova (onna ock-mah-taugh-vah) |
Russian poet of the acmeist school which emphasized clarity of expression and concise form. Best known for her poem "Requiem" which recounts the suffering of the Russian people under Stalinism B. 1889 |
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Louis Althusser (lou-wee al-too-sair) |
French Marxist philosopher known for his work pertaining to ideology. His best-known essay is "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Toward an Investigation" B. 1918 |
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amicus brief (uh-me-kiss) |
A persuasive legal document filed by an "amicus curiae" (means friend of the court), a person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action. Commonly filed in appeals concerning public interest like civil rights cases. |
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Jerzy Andrzejewski (yer-zhay ahn-zhay-ev-ski) |
Polish author best known for "Ashes and Diamonds". His work deals with moral issues such as betrayal and the Jews in Auschwitz during the war. B. 1909 |
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Roger Angell (angel) |
American writer best known for his work in The New Yorker about his lifelong love of baseball. B. 1920 |
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anisotropy (American: an-iss-aww-troh-pea) |
The quality of exhibiting properties with different values when measured along axes in different directions. Example: a piece of wood has lines in one direction. This direction is known as "with the grain." Wood is stronger with the grain than "against the grain". |
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Jean Anouilh (~ahn’oo-ee) |
French dramatist best known for his play, Antigone (1944). This adaptation of Sophocles drama was seen as an attack on Marshall Pétain's Vichy government. B. 1910 |
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Diane Arbus (dee-ann) |
American photographer known for intimate black and white portraits. She often photographed people on the fringes of society. B. 1923 |
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Hannah Arendt (hahn-ah ahr-ent) |
German-born American political theorist best known for her writing on Jewish affairs and totalitarianism. Known for "The Origins of Totalitarianism". B. 1906 |
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Martha Argerich (mar-tah ahr-gur-itch) |
Argentine pianist B. 1941 |
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Arthur reaction (arr-tyoose) |
A hypersensitivity reaction that occurs following the injection of a vaccine. Named after French immunologist Maurice Arthus. |
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Eugène Atget (oo-zhenne at-zhey) |
French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. His images were an inspiration to surrealists. B. 1857 |
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Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin) |
4th century North African theologian. Saint and one of the church fathers of Christianity. Best known for "The Confessions." Patron saint of brewers. B. 354 |
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Autechre (aw-tekk-er) |
English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth. Associated with British 90s IDM. |
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Richard Ayoade (eye-oh-wah-dee) |
British actor and comedian best known for playing Maurice on the IT Crowd. B. 1977 |
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Gaston Bachelard (~gas-tohn bash-lahr) |
French philosopher who made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. Best known for "The Poetics of Space". B. 1884 |
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Angelo Badalamenti (bottle-ah-menti) |
American composer, best known for his work scoring films for David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive. B. 1937 |
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Walter Bagehot (badget) |
British journalist of the mid-Victorian period famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money market. Known for "The English Constitution". Early editor of The Economist. B. 1826 |
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Robert T. Bakker (bocker) |
An American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs by emphasizing that some were endothermic (warm-blooded). His mentor was John Ostrom. Known for his article "Dinosaur Renaissance" in Scientific American. B. 1945 |
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Balliol College (bay-lee-uhl) |
One of Oxford's oldest colleges, founded in 1263. |
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Donald Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) |
American short story writer known for his playful, postmodern style. Known for "Snow White" and "The Dead Father." B. 1931 |
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Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) |
American novelist and short story writer known for his minimalist fiction and focus on ordinary people, especially the New South. Known for "Moon Deluxe". B. 1943 |
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Karl Barth (bart) |
Theologian of the Swiss Reformed school best known for his commentary "The Epistle to the Romans" his involvement in the Confessing Church, and authorship of "the Barmen Declaration" and "Church Dogmatics". B. 1886 |
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Roland Barthes (bart) |
French literary theorist and essayist known for "The Death of the Author". His work on semiotics (study of signs/symbols) helped establish Structuralism as an intellectual movement. B. 1915 |
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Tom Beauchamp (beachum) |
American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. Known for "Principles of Biomedical Ethics". B. 1939 |
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Hilaire Belloc (ee-lair bell-oak) |
British-French writer and historian of the Catholic Literary Revival movement. Known for his books for children (The Bad Child's Book of Beasts) and his historical and travel works (The Path to Rome). B. 1870 |
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Walter Benjamin (ben-yameen) |
German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist known for his work on art and authenticity. Best known for "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility". B. 1892 |
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John Berger (berdger) |
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. Best known for "G." and "Ways of Seeing". B. 1926 |
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Bishop Berkeley (barkley) |
Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he called "immaterialism" which is a type of Idealism. Associated with the dictum "esse is percipi" (to be is to be perceived). First name George. B. 1685 |
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Hans Bethe (beta) |
German-American nuclear physicist, one of the founders of quantum physics. Best known for figuring out how stars produce light (won Nobel Prize). Key figure in the Manhattan Project. B. 1906 |
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John Betjeman (betch-uh-mun) |
English poet, writer, and broadcaster. Defender of Victorian architecture. Best known for his humorous or satirical writings on contemporary British life. Best known for poems such as "Slough" with the opening line "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!". Slough was becoming increasingly industrialized at that time. It was bombed in WWII and his daughter later apologized for the poem. B. 1906 |
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Joseph Beuys (boyz) |
German sculptor and performance artist best known for his installation "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" where he covered his head with honey and gold leaf, wore one shoe soled with felt and one with iron, and walked through an art gallery for about two hours, quietly explaining the art therein to a dead hare he carried. B. 1921 |
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Manolo Blahnik (Spanish pronunciation: ~blah-neek) |
Spanish fashion designer best known for shoes. B. 1942 |
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Hieronymus Bosch (Flemish pronunciation: heer-rone-nee-mohse boss) |
Dutch painter of the Early Netherlandish school. Best known for his works depicting sin and human moral failings. Most famous paintings are "The Garden of Earthly Delights" and "The Temptation of St. Anthony." B. 1450 |
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Tadeusz Borowski (tah-de-yoosh borr-off-ski) |
Polish writer best known for his work dealing with his experience as a prisoner in Auschwitz. Known for "This Way for the Gas" and "Ladies and Gentlemen". b. 1922 |
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Anthony Boucher (rhymes with voucher) |
American author best known for his mystery, crime and science fiction novels. Best known for "Nine Times Nine", a locked room mystery. B. 1911 |
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Tycho Brahe (Danish pronunciation: too-ghoh brahhh) |
Danish astronomer known for his work in developing astronomical instruments and in measuring and fixing the positions of stars. B. 1546 |
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Marcel Breuer (broy-er) |
Hungarian-born modernist architect, and furniture designer best known for his chair designs using tubular steel. B. 1902 |
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Broad Art Museum (brode) |
Contemporary art museum in LA |
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Hermann Broch (~hair-monn brohhh) |
Austrian writer of the Modernist school. Best known for his trilogy "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Death of Virgil". B. 1886 |
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Léon Brunschvicg (~lee-ohn brawnsh-veek) |
French Idealist philosopher who regarded mathematical judgment as the highest form of human thought. Best known for: La modalité du jugement B. 1869 |
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Burgundy Street, New Orleans (burr-gun-dee) |
New Orleans street in the French district |
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Steve Buscemi (boo-semm-ee) |
Character actor known for his work with the Coen bros. B. 1957 |
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Bowdoin College (boh-din) |
Liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. |
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Gonville and Caius College (keys) |
One of the oldest and largest colleges of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1348. |
