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...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
...drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...
...earliest Anglo-Russian rapport occurred during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and of Ivan the Terrible, and it originated in commerce. From then on, English ideas and institutions began to permeate Russia; their influence in the reign of Peter the Great, for example, is notable, and not even the excessively francophile trendencies of Catherine the Great were able to give them any real setback. Locke and Newton, as we should guess, were known to the Russian intelligentsia, even if the knowledge was gained through French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever...
...born in Waltham and has lived there ever since, holding several municipal offices and founding the Waltham Hospital in 1886. He was one of the earliest to operate in cases of appendicitis and was a pioneer in systematic training for nurses...
...Washington University (St. Louis), backed by Rockefeller funds, has been working on the site with three Greek savants. The great hall of mysteries with its gateways and fortifications was uncovered before he appeared. It was believed that a sanctuary built in the 7th Century B. C. was the earliest theatre of the rites, that they were introduced to Greece shortly before that, some scholars thought from Egypt...