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80f876dd8f4de9a44f60f47d78a29757 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umapati | Umapati | Umapati
…of the Knowledge of Shiva”), Umapati’s Shivaprakasham (“Lights on Shiva”) in the 14th century, Shrikantha’s commentary on the Vedanta-sutras (14th century), and Appaya Dikshita’s commentary thereon.
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a216c65c607a4e20e59bb60589542223 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umar-al-Mutawakkil | ʿUmar al-Mutawakkil | ʿUmar al-Mutawakkil
ʿUmar al-Mutawakkil (reigned 1068–94) was also forced to pay tribute to Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon; and he made an unsuccessful attempt to annex Toledo, which was held by a rival Muslim dynasty (1080). When Toledo was eventually taken by Alfonso in 1085, al-Mutawakkil…
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25b937f3f0b3b7c1c02f948cdea8ad2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umar-Khan | ʿUmar Khan | ʿUmar Khan
…both Chagatai and Persian under ʿUmar Khan, the husband of Mahlarayim. Among the poets of his court was Muhammad Sharaf Gulkhānī, author of Zarbumasal (“Proverbs”), a masnawi consisting of fables. The poet Uvaysī, believed to be a friend of Mahlarayim, also spent some years in the Kokandian court. This lite... |
d3b7f0eb98ad24a5cc90a48334ddfaf0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umaru-Dallaji | Umaru Dallaji | Umaru Dallaji
The Fulani leader Umaru Dallaji captured Katsina town in 1806 and was named the first Katsina emir with Katsina as his seat. The emirate was governed by the representative of the sultan of Sokoto (a town 160 miles [258 km] west) as well as the local emir. Many…
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39266ce288dfd1227453a0374559a098 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umur-Bey | Umur Bey | Umur Bey
His son and successor, Umur Bey (Umur I; reigned 1334–48), organized a fleet and led expeditions to the Aegean islands, the Balkans, and the Black Sea coasts, intervening in dynastic quarrels and assisting John VI Cantacuzenus in the neighbouring Byzantine Empire.
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192198e1404795050be3e7141bba512a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Urabi-Pasha | ʿUrābī Pasha | ʿUrābī Pasha
ʿUrābī Pasha, ʿUrābī also spelled Arabi, in full Aḥmad ʿUrābī Pasha al-Miṣrī, (born 1839, near Al-Zaqāzīq, Egypt—died September 21, 1911, Cairo), Egyptian nationalist who led a social-political movement that expressed the discontent of the Egyptian educated classes, army officials, and peasantry with fore... |
2b252b402118e7692f2d725ecd3113ae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uriah-Smith-Stephens | Uriah Smith Stephens | Uriah Smith Stephens
Uriah Smith Stephens, (born August 3, 1821, Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.—died February 13, 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), American utopian reformer who was instrumental in founding the Knights of Labor, the first national labour union in the United States.
Stephens wanted to become a Baptist min... |
a419ddd9c749471372fe263c1b4bb72d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Urie-Bronfenbrenner | Urie Bronfenbrenner | Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner, (born April 29, 1917, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died September 25, 2005, Ithaca, New York, U.S.), Russian-born American psychologist best known for having developed human ecology theory (ecological systems theory), in which individuals are seen as maturing not in isolation but w... |
8afbf911cc3ae3e1d0609883afa4dbd7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Usamah-ibn-Munqidh | Usāmah ibn Munqidh | Usāmah ibn Munqidh
…a lively Arabic autobiography by Usāmah ibn Munqidh (died 1188), which sheds much light upon the life and cultural background of a Syrian knight during the Crusades. A number of mystics, too, had written their spiritual autobiographies in a variety of languages, with varying degrees of artistic succ... |
addcb4e384cf163b0ba8b97941462d93 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Utagawa-Kuniyoshi | Utagawa Kuniyoshi | Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, original name Igusa Magosaburō, (born January 1, 1798, Kanda, Edo [now Tokyo]—died April 14, 1861, Edo), Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement.
Like his rival Utagawa Kunisada, Kuniyoshi was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni. He establ... |
ee6d2d267b226e922154b1760559f57d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Utu-khegal | Utu-khegal | Utu-khegal
Utu-hegal of Uruk is given credit for having overthrown Gutian rule by vanquishing their king Tiriqan along with two generals. Utu-hegal calls himself lord of the four quarters of the earth in an inscription, but this title, adopted from Akkad, is more likely to signify…
…brief interruption by Gutian invader... |
772da1630fc187222de44fd37a7f944c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-K-Krishna-Menon | V.K. Krishna Menon | V.K. Krishna Menon
V.K. Krishna Menon, in full Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, (born May 3, 1897, Calicut [now Kozhikode], India—died Oct. 6, 1974, New Delhi), Indian nationalist and champion of India’s anticolonialism and neutralism.
After studying at the London School of Economics, Menon was called to the bar at th... |
650ebecd24edb1a74ab7e28d62e08ba5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaclav-Kaslik | Václav Kašlík | Václav Kašlík
Václav Kašlík, (born Sept. 28, 1917, Poličná, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]—died June 4, 1989, Prague), Czech composer and conductor who produced operas for theatre and television.
In Prague Kašlík studied at Charles University (1936–39) and the Prague Conservatory (1936–40), completing his stu... |
bb47f7fffd4ceb4f3597801a9a039e4b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Valdemar-Poulsen | Valdemar Poulsen | Valdemar Poulsen
Valdemar Poulsen, (born November 23, 1869, Copenhagen, Denmark—died July 1942, Copenhagen), Danish engineer who in 1903 developed the first device for generating continuous radio waves, thus aiding the development of radio broadcasting.
After his education Poulsen joined the Copenhagen Telephone Compa... |
85885fe4d1d206fe1ec5e16dd55c94c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Valentin-Petrovich-Glushko | Valentin Petrovich Glushko | Valentin Petrovich Glushko
Valentin Petrovich Glushko, (born Aug. 20 [Sept. 2, New Style], 1908, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Jan. 10, 1989, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet rocket scientist, a pioneer in rocket propulsion systems, and a major contributor to Soviet space and defense technology.
After graduat... |
9eef14cb8af2733240e76f08855277bd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Van-Wyck-Brooks | Van Wyck Brooks | Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks, (born Feb. 16, 1886, Plainfield, N.J., U.S.—died May 2, 1963, Bridgewater, Conn.), American critic, biographer, and literary historian, whose “Finders and Makers” series traces American literary history in rich biographical detail from 1800 to 1915.
Brooks grew up in the wealthy suburb... |
c5a67be0fbe45960ab4d5440fa381458 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vance-Brand | Vance Brand | Vance Brand
Vance Brand, in full Vance DeVoe Brand, (born May 9, 1931, Longmont, Colorado, U.S.), American astronaut who was command pilot for several historic space ventures, including the first joint U.S.-Soviet crewed space mission and the first fully operational space shuttle mission.
Brand gained flight experien... |
19b6f5ec36a4e1be0e2410141382c859 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vance-Palmer | Vance Palmer | Vance Palmer
Vance Palmer, in full Edward Vance Palmer, (born August 28, 1885, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia—died July 15, 1959, Melbourne, Victoria), Australian author of novels, short stories, and plays whose work is noted for disciplined diction and frequent understatement. He is considered one of the founders o... |
6dc16d7770855dfd103b78b8ec24068a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vanderlei-Lima | Vanderlei Lima | Vanderlei Lima
…Italy after the leader, Brazil’s Vanderlei Lima, was assaulted by a deranged spectator about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the finish line. Lima, who recovered to take the bronze, was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for “his exceptional demonstration of fair play and Olympic values.”
…Italy after the lead... |
f9d132cb010e9d93e9748cfdb10dd11c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vanessa-Bell | Vanessa Bell | Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell, née Vanessa Stephen, (born May 30, 1879, London, England—died April 7, 1961, Firle, East Sussex), British painter, designer, and founding member of the Bloomsbury group who was known for her colourful portraits and still-life paintings and for her dust-jacket designs.
Bell was born into a Vi... |
387fb6201c3ca383044637adf28d62d7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Varina-Davis | Varina Davis | Varina Davis
…four, and Minerva Meredith, whom Varina Davis (the wife of President Davis) described as “tall, daring, Amazonian-looking,” the crowd of more than 100 women armed with axes, knives, and other weapons took their grievances to Letcher on April 2. Letcher listened, but his words failed to pacify the crowd, a... |
911b23934f9c8b3bc289965d59d4a68c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Varunan | Varunan | Varunan
Varunan, a sea god who had adopted the name of an old Vedic god but otherwise had few Vedic features, and Mayon, a black god who was a rural divinity with many of the characteristics of Krishna in his pastoral aspect, also are depicted in…
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cbdf0bb116a930634c47cffd59567476 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-Pratolini | Vasco Pratolini | Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini, (born Oct. 19, 1913, Florence, Italy—died Jan. 12, 1991, Rome), Italian short-story writer and novelist, known particularly for compassionate portraits of the Florentine poor during the Fascist era. He is considered a major figure in Italian Neorealism.
Pratolini was reared in Florenc... |
60062bfbb5ed826a3ce9e08a59f10760 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Andreyevich-Zhukovsky | Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky | Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky, (born Jan. 29 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1783, Tula province, Russia—died April 12 [April 24], 1852, Baden-Baden, Baden [Germany]), Russian poet and translator, one of Aleksandr Pushkin’s most important precursors in forming Russian verse style and language.
Zhukov... |
50275bac4ed8a5a53ba51965fec7ddb4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Dmitrievich-Tikhomirov | Vasily Dmitrievich Tikhomirov | Vasily Dmitrievich Tikhomirov
Vasily Dmitrievich Tikhomirov, (born March 30, 1876, Moscow, Russia—died June 20, 1956, Moscow), ballet dancer and influential teacher who helped develop the vigorous style and technical virtuosity of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. He trained such dancers as Mikhail Mordkin, Alexandre Vol... |
017ac289833cc6cadc80bba09ea6e725 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Vasilyevich-Rozanov | Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov | Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov
Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov, Rozanov also spelled Rosanov, (born May 2 [April 20, Old Style], 1856, Vetluga, Russian Empire—died Feb. 5, 1919, Sergiyev, Russian S.F.S.R.), Russian writer, religious thinker, and journalist, best known for the originality and individuality of his prose works.
R... |
c69386f0d13824b38717e9d83f93f531 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasundhara-Raje | Vasundhara Raje | Vasundhara Raje
Vasundhara Raje, original name in full Vasundhara Raje Scindia, (born March 8, 1953, Bombay [now Mumbai], India), Indian politician and government official, who rose to become a senior leader in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She twice served (2003–08 and 2013–18) as the chief minister (head of gove... |
f0da3d651faf956ddf26a8d00721fc3a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaughan-Jones | Vaughan Jones | Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Jones, in full Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, (born December 31, 1952, Gisborne, New Zealand—died September 6, 2020, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.), New Zealand mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990 for his study of functional analysis and knot theory.
Jones attended the University... |
3734a06b42a1af317696d4c4a4c3d66a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vavasor-Powell | Vavasor Powell | Vavasor Powell
Vavasor Powell, (born 1617, Knucklas, Radnorshire, Wales—died Oct. 27, 1670, London), Welsh preacher and Fifth Monarchist during the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth.
Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he came under the influence of Walter Cradock and adopted radical Puritan views. When the Civil Wa... |
63e55859cd7ef8d64079ea5cab213ca0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vazha-Pshavela | Vazha Pshavela | Vazha Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela (pseudonym of Luka Razikashvili) is modern Georgia’s greatest genius. His finest works are tragic narrative poems (Stumar-maspindzeli [1893; “Host and Guest”], Gvelis mchameli [1901; “The Snake-Eater”]) that combine Caucasian folk myth with human tragedy. Young Georgian poets and prose wri... |
95f466d5b9164333a4ddc22510443fe7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vegard-Ulvang | Vegard Ulvang | Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang, byname Vegard the Viking, (born October 10, 1963, Kirkenes, Norway), Norwegian Nordic skier known both for his successful racing career and for his many adventurous trips throughout the world. He skied across Greenland and climbed some of the highest mountain peaks in the world, including ... |
41389e05484d723e6b1b254922f13c47 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Veit-Stoss | Veit Stoss | Veit Stoss
Veit Stoss, Polish Wit Stosz or Wit Stwosz, (born 1438/47, Swabia [Germany]—died 1533, Nürnberg), one of the greatest sculptors and wood-carvers of 16th-century Germany. His nervous, angular forms, realistic detail, and virtuoso wood carving synthesized the sculptural styles of Flemish and Danubian art and... |
e701b3cbe1d2ed7869c0d8ff8c697579 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Venutius | Venutius | Venutius
…when her husband and coruler, Venutius, twice attempted to overthrow her by stirring up anti-Roman sentiment, the Roman legions put down the uprisings. Venutius and Cartimandua were reconciled and reigned together until 69, when she divorced him for his armour bearer, Vellocatus. For the third time Venutius r... |
f83a3cbd5fdce29973e8bcfc6673ebd6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vera-Volkova | Vera Volkova | Vera Volkova
Vera Volkova, (born 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia—died May 5, 1975, Copenhagen, Den.), Soviet ballet teacher who greatly influenced Western dance training.
Volkova studied at the Imperial Ballet Academy and later at Volynsky’s Russian Choreographic School in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) under Agrippina ... |
4593d11542fc456f338784a98677d71f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vercingetorix | Vercingetorix | Vercingetorix
Vercingetorix, (died 46 bce), chieftain of the Gallic tribe of the Arverni whose formidable rebellion against Roman rule was crushed by Julius Caesar.
Caesar had almost completed the subjugation of Gaul when Vercingetorix led a general uprising of the Gauls against him in 52 bce. Vercingetorix was named ... |
ed211ca2fc9a13bf09cb81562df4af1e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Verghese-Kurien | Verghese Kurien | Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien, (born November 26, 1921, Kozhikode, Kerala state, India—died September 9, 2012, Nadiad, Gujarat state), Indian engineer and entrepreneur who was regarded as the architect of India’s “white revolution,” which transformed the country from an importer of dairy products to the world’s larg... |
8a7a908eac2e94439d378815260fd23e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Verlaine-Paul | Paul Verlaine | Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine, (born March 30, 1844, Metz, France—died January 8, 1896, Paris), French lyric poet first associated with the Parnassians and later known as a leader of the Symbolists. With Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire he formed the so-called Decadents.
Verlaine was the only child of an army of... |
d33f2af4363216a6728d30eddf387fb3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Verney-Lovett-Cameron | Verney Lovett Cameron | Verney Lovett Cameron
Verney Lovett Cameron, (born July 1, 1844, Radipole, near Weymouth, Dorset, Eng.—died March 27, 1894, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire), British explorer, the first to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.
Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of ... |
d775b8af9ce8ff283d304a152de4356f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vernon-Duke | Vernon Duke | Vernon Duke
Vernon Duke, original name Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky, (born October 10, 1903, Parfyanovka, near Pskov, Russia—died January 16, 1969, Santa Monica, California, U.S.), Russian-born American composer noted for his sophisticated melodies for films, Broadway musicals, and revues. Among his most popular ... |
ee0abb8c4d4189421036fec7717da957 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vestri | Vestri | Vestri
Sudri, Austri, and Vestri (the four points of the compass), and became the dome of the heavens. The sun, moon, and stars were made of scattered sparks that were caught in the skull.
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39696f1b697bb5e10d3a7004cedab989 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vic-Damone | Vic Damone | Vic Damone
…arrangements for Steve Lawrence and Vic Damone and later toured with Marlene Dietrich. In the late 1950s he began his long association with David, which would produce many hits especially for singer Dionne Warwick, including “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” and “Do You Know the Way to…
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36b7e5194d22d4a729f60f6fd786f019 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicaquirao | Vicaquirao | Vicaquirao
His brothers Vicaquirao (Wika-k’iraw) and Apo Mayta (’Apu Mayta) were able military leaders and incorporated lands south and east of Cuzco into the Inca domain. Yahuar Huacac’s principal wife was apparently an Ayarmaca, indicating that at that time sister marriage was not the rule (see below Civil…
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936e10d41a45e8c9116d7552a899c60c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-Aleixandre | Vicente Aleixandre | Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre, (born April 26, 1898, Sevilla, Spain—died December 14, 1984, Madrid), Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of 1927, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He was strongly influenced by the Surrealist technique of poetic composition.
Aleixandre was the son of a r... |
d28c4f68953909dd63f3b6d2f655bc59 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-de-Valverde | Vicente de Valverde | Vicente de Valverde
…rejected demands by the friar Vicente de Valverde, who had accompanied Pizarro, that he accept the Christian faith and the sovereignty of Charles V of Spain, whereupon Pizarro signaled his men. Firing their cannons and guns and charging with their horses (all of which were unknown to the Inca), the... |
efc191a6860c486bbc1cb86c8ad8f283 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-Fox | Vicente Fox | Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox, in full Vicente Fox Quesada, (born July 2, 1942, Mexico City, Mexico), Mexican businessman and politician who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. His term in office marked the end of 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Fox, the second of nine c... |
b0025f80a0d5f2d4d4332f26e01a3be0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-3e-duc-de-Broglie | Victor, 3e duke de Broglie | Victor, 3e duke de Broglie
Victor, 3e duke de Broglie, (born Nov. 28, 1785, Paris—died Jan. 25, 1870, Paris), French politician, diplomat, and, from 1835 to 1836, prime minister, who throughout his life campaigned against reactionary forces.
Taken into the imperial council of state as auditeur in 1809, Broglie was se... |
59587f29cb1c63313c5f1e81fffc8f53 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Adler | Victor Adler | Victor Adler
Victor Adler, (born June 24, 1852, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]—died Nov. 11, 1918, Vienna, Austria), Austrian Social Democrat, founder of a party representing all the nationalities of Austria-Hungary.
Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Adler studied medicine at the University... |
10c6b47c34f92ccf05daa2add55ca0d0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Bulwer-Lytton-2nd-Earl-of-Lytton | Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton | Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton
Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton, (born Aug. 9, 1876, Simla, India—died Oct. 26, 1947, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, Eng.), British governor of Bengal (1922–27) and chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, whic... |
3ff2a3a9e20098b2536f871e17f5c07c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Burgin | Victor Burgin | Victor Burgin
…work of the British artist Victor Burgin was a key precedent for this tendency. As a conceptualist he had produced a clever piece of pseudo-advertising—a poster (Possession, 1976) that appeared on billboards throughout Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, showing a couple embracing (as in ads for deodorant or j... |
5a486be7d07fa793bfa955b2c6ad7bb6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Davis | Victor Davis | Victor Davis
Victor Davis, (born February 10, 1964, Guelph, Ontario, Canada—died November 13, 1989, Montreal, Quebec), Canadian swimmer, an aggressive competitor who won four Olympic medals.
At the 1982 world championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Davis set a world record and won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststro... |
c14296e56c3212313a05e8d60bde21c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Ernest-Shelford | Victor Ernest Shelford | Victor Ernest Shelford
Victor Ernest Shelford, (born Sept. 22, 1877, Chemung, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1968), American zoologist and animal ecologist whose pioneering studies of animal communities helped to establish ecology as a distinct discipline. His Animal Communities in Temperate America (1913) was one of the f... |
4f20720339c60a710927c5235526007f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Espinoza | Victor Espinoza | Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza, (born May 23, 1972, Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico), Mexican-born jockey who in 2015 became the oldest jockey to win American Thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown, riding American Pharoah.
Espinoza grew up on a farm northeast of Mexico City and worked as a bus driver while he took rid... |
d7985cea07caef29607d4a39d7a7a8ca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Francois-2e-duc-de-Broglie | Victor-François, 2nd duke de Broglie | Victor-François, 2nd duke de Broglie
Victor-François, 2nd duke de Broglie, (born Oct. 19, 1718—died March 30, 1814, Münster, Westphalia [Germany]), marshal of France under Louis XV and Louis XVI, who became one of the émigrés during the French Revolution.
He served with his father, the first duke, in Italy and took p... |
111eb5db777da9f586500e674caa04dc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Henri-Rochefort-marquis-de-Rochefort-Lucay | Victor-Henri Rochefort, marquis de Rochefort-Lucay | Victor-Henri Rochefort, marquis de Rochefort-Lucay
Victor-Henri Rochefort, marquis de Rochefort-Lucay, (born Jan. 31, 1830, Paris, France—died June 30, 1913, Aix-les-Bains), gifted polemical journalist under the Second Empire and the Third Republic who distinguished himself, at first, as a supporter of the extreme le... |
9d3feefc6e699655d2f438391cdaa536 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Louis | Victor Louis | Victor Louis
Victor Louis, original name Nicolas Louis, (born May 10, 1731, Paris, Fr.—died July 2, 1800, Paris), one of the most active of late 18th-century French Neoclassical architects, especially noted for theatre construction.
After at least seven unsuccessful attempts, Louis won the Prix de Rome in 1755. While... |
24196876069a98592f6b33f453c2e6f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Schoelcher | Victor Schoelcher | Victor Schoelcher
Victor Schoelcher, (born July 22, 1804, Paris, France—died Dec. 26, 1893, Houilles), French journalist and politician who was France’s greatest advocate of ending slavery in the empire.
Although born into a wealthy porcelain-manufacturing family, Schoelcher showed little inclination for a business c... |
e30abd7d69ab49768581792f9a878fab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Turner | Victor Turner | Victor Turner
From the 1960s through the early 1980s, the classic structural functionalist view of rites of passage was challenged and revised. The charge was led by the British anthropologist Victor Turner, who acknowledged the contribution of structural functionalism to the study of…
…work of the British anthropologi... |
6594f44e04576390e09f9e86c600a5d8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-Benedictsson | Victoria Benedictsson | Victoria Benedictsson
Victoria Benedictsson, pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren, (born March 6, 1850, Skåne, Swed.—died July 21, 1888, Copenhagen), writer noted for her natural and unpretentious stories of Swedish folk life and her novels dealing with social issues.
Having grown up in a home marred by marital discord, she marrie... |
9f204fc7fa7572f70a643b2a0fb424dd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom/Widowhood | Widowhood of Victoria | Widowhood of Victoria
After Albert’s death Victoria descended into deep depression—“those paroxysms of despair and yearning and longing and of daily, nightly longing to die…for the first three years never left me.” Even after climbing out of depression, she remained in mourning and in partial retirement. She balked at ... |
99fc7c7a1b00b8a77d9ebe03f832f297 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vigilius | Vigilius | Vigilius
Vigilius, (born before 500, Rome—died June 7, 555, Syracuse, Sicily), pope from 537 to 555, known for his major role in what later was called the “Three Chapters Controversy,” a complex theological dispute between the Eastern and Western churches.
Vigilius, of noble birth, became a Roman deacon and was with... |
4326188bd83d915618825187f866538e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vijaya-Lakshmi-Pandit | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, née Swarup Kumari Nehru, (born Aug. 18, 1900, Allahābād, India—died Dec. 1, 1990, Dehra Dun), Indian political leader and diplomat, one of the world’s leading women in public life in the 20th century.
She was the daughter of Motilal Nehru, a wealthy and aristocratic nation... |
e7da8c53342a0ceab4c68d76590171dd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Elpidiforovich-Borisov-Musatov | Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov | Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov
Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov, (born April 2 [April 14, New Style], 1870, Saratov, Russia—died Oct. 26 [Nov. 8, New Style] 1905, Tarusa), Russian painter of the Art Nouveau period (known in Russia as style moderne), one of the most masterful painters of his time, and who m... |
7d6cb86b8c042fda15bbe02c7296810f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Orban | Viktor Orbán | Viktor Orbán
Viktor Orbán, Hungarian form Orbán Viktor, (born May 31, 1963, Alcsútdoboz, Hungary), Hungarian politician who served as prime minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010– ). He was considered to be the first post-Cold War head of government in eastern and central Europe who had not been a member of a Soviet-era... |
31021aa17ebdf6a414017b4463edfc26 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilhelm-Buhl | Vilhelm Buhl | Vilhelm Buhl
Vilhelm Buhl, (born Oct. 16, 1881, Fredericia, Den.—died Dec. 18, 1954, Copenhagen), twice prime minister of Denmark (1942, 1945), whose opposition to cooperation with Nazi Germany during his first term of office resulted in his dismissal by the Germans.
After serving as collector of taxes for Copenhagen... |
7e1ceeeb5c2e780ae1db5f2f68f63e16 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilhelm-Ludvig-Peter-Thomsen | Vilhelm Ludvig Peter Thomsen | Vilhelm Ludvig Peter Thomsen
…1893 by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen. They are on two large monuments, erected in ad 732 and 735 in honour of the Turkish prince Kül (d. 731) and his brother the emperor Bilge (d. 734), and are carved in a script used also for inscriptions found in Mongolia, Siberia,…
…1893 by th... |
f3d52ff51c2f16445fd499597082c0aa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Villard-de-Honnecourt | Villard De Honnecourt | Villard De Honnecourt
Villard De Honnecourt, (born c. 1225, Picardy, Fr.—died c. 1250), French architect remembered primarily for the sketchbook compiled while he travelled in search of work as a master mason. The book is made up of sketches and writings concerning architectural practices current during the 13th centu... |
82add5a65b1e5afceaf3a7beeb443554 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Villy-Sorensen | Villy Sørensen | Villy Sørensen
Villy Sørensen, (born January 13, 1929, Copenhagen, Denmark—died December 16, 2001, Copenhagen), influential writer of modernist short stories and a leading literary critic in Denmark after World War II.
Sørensen’s first collection of short stories, Saere historier (Tiger in the Kitchen and Other Strang... |
b941078c6d095e082ed9f01f3d000034 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vilmos-Aba-Novak | Vilmos Aba Novák | Vilmos Aba Novák
Vilmos Aba Novák, (born March 15, 1894, Budapest, Hung.—died Sept. 29, 1941, Budapest), painter and printmaker who was one of the most original and controversial talents in modern Hungarian painting.
From 1912 to 1914, Aba Novák studied at the College of Fine Arts in Budapest. He then worked at the ar... |
a831aa4213a3883765af3c0e9e30525e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincas-Kreve-Mickievicius | Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius | Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius, also called Vincas Krėvė, (born Oct. 19, 1882, Subartonys, Russian Lithuania—died July 7, 1954, Broomall, Pa., U.S.), Lithuanian poet, philologist, and playwright whose mastery of style gave him a foremost place in Lithuanian literature.
After serving as Lithuanian ... |
8d42c361590517eb117fc33f14caf64c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Joseph-Schaefer | Vincent Joseph Schaefer | Vincent Joseph Schaefer
Vincent Joseph Schaefer, (born July 4, 1906, Schenectady, New York, U.S.—died July 25, 1993, Schenectady), American research chemist and meteorologist who in 1946 carried out the first systematic series of experiments to investigate the physics of precipitation. From an aircraft over Massachuse... |
da29f4894fb2ee6fda0a94a6d231c1f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Persichetti | Vincent Persichetti | Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Persichetti, (born June 6, 1915, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1987, Philadelphia), American composer noted for his succinct polyphonic style (based on interwoven melodic lines), forceful rhythms, and generally diatonic melodies (moving stepwise; not atonal or highly chromatic).
Pe... |
acc729e7967db58d57e29fd27fdbc310 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh?anchor=ref853410 | Vincent van Gogh | Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, in full Vincent Willem van Gogh, (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France), Dutch painter, generally considered the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. The striking colour, em... |
3dee6127d857d78cc8ec729ee2a3578e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincenzo-Dandolo | Vincenzo Dandolo | Vincenzo Dandolo
Vincenzo Dandolo, (born Oct. 12, 1758, Venice—died Dec. 12, 1819, Varese, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia), Italian chemist and statesman, an innovator in both science and politics. He helped further democratic ideas in Italy, while his writings, especially on agriculture, won him a reputation throughout... |
ac6cd5cccaef7be369aaf79f3973961f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincenzo-Viviani | Vincenzo Viviani | Vincenzo Viviani
…according to his first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703), Galileo demonstrated, by dropping bodies of different weights from the top of the famous Leaning Tower, that the speed of fall of a heavy object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had claimed. The manuscript tract De motu (O... |
ed18ca4ea0626030097580c0f875888b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinnie-Ream | Vinnie Ream | Vinnie Ream
Vinnie Ream, (born September 25, 1847, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.—died November 20, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American sculptor, who is best remembered for her sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Ream had a peripatetic childhood, but in 1861 her family settled in Was... |
64e792a3fc524ffc7404e1c034274f18 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Violette-Leduc | Violette Leduc | Violette Leduc
…writers in this vein were Violette Leduc in La Bâtarde (1964; “The Bastard”; Eng. trans. La Bâtarde) and Marie Cardinal in Les Mots pour le dire (1975; The Words to Say It). Creative writers in the realist mode addressed a widening popular readership with accounts of the lives of women…
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17ae1ed4268965787e4ab8c94a191e38 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vira-Narasimha | Vira Narasimha | Vira Narasimha
…and successor, best known as Vira Narasimha (reigned 1503–09), ended the sham of regency. After ordering the by-then grown Immadi Narasimha’s murder in 1505, he ascended the throne and inaugurated the Tuluva dynasty, the third dynasty of Vijayanagar. The usurpation again provoked opposition, which the n... |
6e1799749a46840b4c793c7bbeb5872d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viracocha-Inca | Viracocha Inca | Viracocha Inca
About 1430 the Inca emperor Viracocha began conquests southward from his capital at Cuzco. Aymara territories ultimately formed a major part of the Inca empire, against which the Aymara continually revolted.
…is said that the Inca Viracocha established a year of 12 months, each beginning with the New Moo... |
3988e42258175fe46a30a5863cd07fe8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Dare | Virginia Dare | Virginia Dare
Virginia Dare, (born Aug. 18, 1587, Roanoke Island, Virginia colony. [now in North Carolina, U.S.]), the first English child born in the Americas. She was given the name Virginia because she was the first Christian born in Virginia.
Her father was Ananias Dare. Her mother, Ellinor (Eleanor, or Elyonor) W... |
d8bc37d2b2a06dd06636e38f87c56f80 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Wade | Virginia Wade | Virginia Wade
…champions were Ken Rosewall and Virginia Wade. The first open Wimbledon was a joyous occasion, as many past champions who had been stripped of membership in the All England Club when they turned professional were welcomed back. The total prize money was £26,150 (\$62,760), of which £2,000 went to men’s…
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510e8866d1aef8c61225bd4e415b7cb1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viveca-Lindfors | Viveca Lindfors | Viveca Lindfors
… as an epileptic scientist and Viveca Lindfors as a widow haunted by her late husband; Siegel and Lindfors were married from 1949 to 1954. He next made The Big Steal (1949), a lighthearted crime yarn that reunited Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, the stars of Jacques Tourneur’s noir classic Out…
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2e87395724c2ed92ade18179730d342e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vivian-Ernest-Fuchs | Vivian Fuchs | Vivian Fuchs
Vivian Fuchs, in full Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs, (born February 11, 1908, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England—died November 11, 1999, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English geologist and explorer who led the historic British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957–58.
In 1929 and 1930–31 Fuchs participa... |
783e8049b639ba4f8f2bf5c4b3a38189 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vjekoslav-Kaleb | Vjekoslav Kaleb | Vjekoslav Kaleb
… (Kiklop [1965; “The Cyclops”]) and Vjekoslav Kaleb (Divota prašine [1954; “The Wonder of Dust,” Eng. trans. Glorious Dust]), who wrote on the war and contemporary society in Croatia. Vesna Parun, an important and fruitful poet, was recognized most notably for her collection of poems Crna maslina (1955... |
2f751887ac5338798e02efa73d5aac84 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Aleksandrovich-Fock | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, (born Dec. 22 [Dec. 10, Old Style], 1898, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Dec. 27, 1974, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]), Russian mathematical physicist who made seminal contributions to quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativ... |
72656e7ed017192ad3f448bf9976da66 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Germanovich-Bogoraz | Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz | Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz
Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, pseudonym N.A. Tan, or V.G. Tan, (born April 27 [April 15, Old Style], 1865, Ovruch, Russia—died May 10, 1936, on the way to Rostov-na-Donu), Russian anthropologist whose study of the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia ranks among the classic works of eth... |
88cc47ce780e7e8586f9caf68febb11a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Gershonovich-Drinfeld | Vladimir Drinfeld | Vladimir Drinfeld
Vladimir Drinfeld, in full Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld, (born February 14, 1954, Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]), Ukrainian-born mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990 for his work in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.
Drinfeld attended Moscow State Uni... |
f69967c98f0b9c2083d50343c9ce95c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-I | Vladimir I | Vladimir I
Vladimir I, in full Vladimir Svyatoslavich or Ukrainian Volodymyr Sviatoslavych, byname Saint Vladimir or Vladimir the Great, Russian Svyatoy Vladimir or Vladimir Veliky, (born c. 956, Kyiv, Kievan Rus [now in Ukraine]—died July 15, 1015, Berestova, near Kyiv; feast day July 15), grand prince of Kyiv and ... |
8378ed0d3013a347f0abee8e104e7bd6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Ivanovich-Stepanov | Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov | Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov
…such system was developed by Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov, a dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg; it was published in Paris with the title Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain (1892; Alphabet of Movements of the Human Body). Stepanov’s method was based on an anatomical analys... |
36575ecfb21836c4bce58dee46dc4054 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Ivanovich-Vernadsky | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, (born March 12 [Feb. 28, Old Style], 1863, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Jan. 6, 1945, Moscow), Russian geochemist and mineralogist who is considered to be one of the founders of geochemistry and biogeochemistry.
The son of a professor, Vernadsky graduated from... |
919b84aef665e654d054e4fd5f734031 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Lukich-Borovikovsky | Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky | Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, original surname Borovik, (born July 24 [Aug. 4, New Style], 1757, Mirgorod, Russia (now Myrhorod, Ukraine)—died April 6 [April 18, New Style], 1825, St. Petersburg), Russian artist of Ukrainian background who was the foremost portraitist of the sentimentalist... |
de6cbcb43ff1c59ca516d2b52365f70f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Sergeyevich-Solovyov | Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov | Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Solovyov also spelled Soloviev, (born Jan. 16 [Jan. 28, New Style], 1853, Moscow, Russia—died July 31 [Aug. 13], 1900, Uzkoye, near Moscow), Russian philosopher and mystic who, reacting to European rationalist thought, attempted a synthesis of religious ph... |
0cd44093a36b456f0488c0d5319ad917 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Ussachevsky | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Vladimir Ussachevsky
Vladimir Ussachevsky, in full Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, (born November 3 [October 21, Old Style], 1911, Hulun, Manchuria [now Hailar, Inner Mongolia, China]—died January 4, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.), American composer known for his experiments with music for the tape recorder, often combi... |
a172cb0c3996097c3e95b8b4890923ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladislas-II | Vladislas II | Vladislas II
Vladislas II, (born 1456—died March 13, 1516, Buda, Hung.), king of Bohemia from 1471 and of Hungary from 1490 who achieved the personal union of his two realms.
The eldest son of Casimir IV Jagiełło, king of Poland, Vladislas was elected king of Bohemia in 1471. The early part of his reign was spent in... |
30676afe349278f2abcbe3d94d1f7d46 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vo-Chi-Cong | Vo Chi Cong | Vo Chi Cong
Vo Chi Cong, (born 1912, Quang Nam province, Annam (now in Vietnam)—died September 8, 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), strongly anti-French Communist revolutionary who was among the earliest fighters for Vietnam’s independence. He held key positions in South Vietnam’s National Liberation Front (NLF) and t... |
2d0756bef37f185c8de19d7a71210d29 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Volmari-Iso-Hollo | Volmari Iso-Hollo | Volmari Iso-Hollo
Volmari Iso-Hollo, (born May 1, 1907, Ylöjärvi, Fin.—died June 23, 1969, Heinola), Finnish runner, who won two successive gold medals in the Olympic Games (1932, 1936) for the 3,000-metre steeplechase.
Iso-Hollo also won a silver medal for the 10,000-metre race at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angele... |
1b2880102cefd3ac6ab02092a6053ba6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vologeses-I | Vologeses I | Vologeses I
Vologeses I, (died c. ad 80), king of Parthia (reigned c. ad 51–80), the son of the previous king, Vonones II, by a Greek concubine.
Vologeses gave the kingdom of Media Atropatene to his brother Pacorus and occupied Armenia for another brother, Tiridates. Parthian control of Armenia, however, led to a lon... |
3154b426b2921bd4c33e037d32d918d3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire/Achievements-at-Ferney | Achievements at Ferney of Voltaire | Achievements at Ferney of Voltaire
At Ferney, Voltaire entered on one of the most active periods of his life. Both patriarch and lord of the manor, he developed a modern estate, sharing in the movement of agricultural reform in which the aristocracy was interested at the time. He could not be true to himself, however, ... |
066b62df9cc6ad110662ba3d2420cc12 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire/Legacy | Legacy of Voltaire | Legacy of Voltaire
Voltaire’s name has always evoked vivid reactions. Toward the end of his life he was attacked by the followers of Rousseau, and after 1800 he was held responsible for the Revolution. But the excesses of clerical reactionaries under the Restoration and the Second Empire rallied the middle and working ... |
e5987d4b2791c892c212aa6b0b9034f0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Von-Miller | Von Miller | Von Miller
Von Miller, in full Von B’Vsean Miller, (born March 26, 1989, DeSoto, Texas, U.S.), American gridiron football defensive lineman who was one of the most dominant defensive players of his generation. He helped the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) win the Super Bowl in 2016.
Miller was a s... |
5f193602ab4b4321d24a6b84c003100b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-C-Brownell | W.C. Brownell | W.C. Brownell
W.C. Brownell, in full William Crary Brownell, (born August 30, 1851, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 22, 1928, Williamstown, Massachusetts), critic who sought to expand the scope of American literary criticism as Matthew Arnold had for British.
After graduating from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachu... |
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