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    Woman Suffrage
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, led...for state amendments kept the woman-suffrage movement divided...united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Later...1869) granted suffrage to the women within their borders; when...earliest, as well as most famous, arguments for the right of...
     
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    Fogazzaro, Antonio
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Primarily concerned with moral issues, he was particularly adept at depicting character. His famous novel Malombra (1881, tr. The Woman, 1907) reveals the conflict between the spiritual and the sensual. Piccolo mondo antico (1896...
     
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    Bridgman, Laura
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...eventually becoming a sewing teacher at the school, where she remained until her death. As a girl and young woman, Bridgman was famous, her life and education described in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Her fame was later eclipsed by that...
     
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    Magic , in Entertainment
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of Natural Magic") became famous for his use of complicated...of the North." Among the famous stage magicians of the later...first (1921) to "saw" a woman in half; world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini...Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986, repr. 1998); T...
     
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    Lachaise, Gaston
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Building, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, and other New York City structures. Perhaps his most famous works, however, are single figures, such as his Standing Woman (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City), which has monumental charm and extraordinary...
     

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