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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Urie-Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Utagawa-Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-K-Krishna-Menon
V.K. Krishna Menon
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaclav-Kaslik
Václav Kašlík
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Valdemar-Poulsen
Valdemar Poulsen
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Valentin-Petrovich-Glushko
Valentin Petrovich Glushko
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Van-Wyck-Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vance-Brand
Vance Brand
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vance-Palmer
Vance Palmer
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vanderlei-Lima
Vanderlei Lima
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vanessa-Bell
Vanessa Bell
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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...
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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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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Andreyevich-Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Vasilyevich-Rozanov
Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaughan-Jones
Vaughan Jones
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vavasor-Powell
Vavasor Powell
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-de-Valverde
Vicente de Valverde
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-3e-duc-de-Broglie
Victor, 3e duke de Broglie
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Adler
Victor Adler
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Bulwer-Lytton-2nd-Earl-of-Lytton
Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Francois-2e-duc-de-Broglie
Victor-François, 2nd duke de Broglie
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Henri-Rochefort-marquis-de-Rochefort-Lucay
Victor-Henri Rochefort, marquis de Rochefort-Lucay
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vigilius
Vigilius
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