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doge
(Venetian Italian: "duke") Highest official of the republic of Venice in the 8th-18th cent. The office originated when the city was nominally subject to the Byzantine empire and became permanent in the 8th cent. The doge was chosen from among the ruling families of Venice and held office for life. He held extensive power, as evidenced by the rule of E. Dandolo (r.1192-1205), though from the 12th cent. the aristocracy placed limits on the doge's authority. Under Francesco Foscari (r.1423-57), Venice undertook the first conquests of the Italian mainland. The last doge was deposed when Napoleon conquered N Italy in 1797.
Algiers
City (pop., 1995 est.: 2,168,000), chief seaport, and capital of Algeria. Located along the Bay of Algiers, and first settled by Phoenicians, it was later ruled by the Romans. It was destroyed by the Vandals in the 5th cent. AD but revived under a Berber dynasty in the 10th cent. When the Spanish threatened it in the early 16th cent., the emir appealed to Barbarossa, who expelled the Spanish and placed Algiers under the Ottoman sultanate. Algiers became the major base for the Barbary Coast pirates for 300 years; their activities were finally curtailed in 1818 by an Amer. force led by S. Decatur. The French took the city in 1830 and made it headquarters for their African colonial empire. In World War II, it became the Allied headquarters in N Africa and for a time the provisional capital of France. In the 1950s it was the focal point in the drive for Algeria's independence; after independence, Algiers grew as the country's political, economic, and cultural center.
Bowie
British rock singer. In the mid-1960s Bowie sang in a number of bands in his native London. He changed his name in 1966 to avoid confusion with the lead singer of The Monkees. His first hit album, Space Oddity (1969), and such later albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972) ushered in the glitter-rock trend, marked by theatricality and androgyny. He collaborated on hit recordings with J. Lennon (Young Americans) and B. Crosby (Peace on Earth), starred on stage in The Elephant Man, and appeared in such films as The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).
U.S. soldier. Born in Logan Co., Ky., he lived in Louisiana, where he owned a sugar plantation and served in the state legislature. In 1828 he settled in Texas, assumed Mexican citizenship, acquired land grants, and married the vice-governor's daughter. In opposition to Mexican legislation to curb the emigration of white settlers, he joined the Texas revolutionary movement and became a colonel in the Texas army. He is remembered for his death leading the forces at the Alamo. He invented the knife that bears his name and became a legendary hero through Western song and ballad.
Damien
Belgian priest. After training at the College of Braine-le-Comte, he joined the Society of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and ...
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