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Anderson
U.S. singer. Born in Philadelphia, she was immediately recognized for the beauty of her voice and her artistry at her New York debut in 1924, but the fact that she was black made a concert or opera career in the U.S. impossible. Her London debut in 1930 and tours of Scandinavia established her in Europe, where she worked exclusively until 1935. S. Hurok convinced her to again try to make a career in her native land. When she was denied use of Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., by the Daughters of the Amer. Revolution in 1939, E. Roosevelt arranged for her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert was broadcast to great acclaim. Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, the first performance there by a black singer, took place in 1955, when she was in her late fifties.


Hades
Greek god of the underworld. He was also known as Pluto; his Roman equivalent was Dis. Hades was the son of the Titans Rhea and Cronus and the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. His queen was Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, whom he kidnapped from earth and carried off to the underworld. Stern and pitiless, unmoved by prayer or sacrifice, he presided over the trial and punishment of the wicked after death. His name was also sometimes used to designate the dwelling place of the dead, and it later became a synonym for Hell.


Madero
Mexican revolutionary and president (1911-13). Son of a wealthy landowner, in 1908 he called for honest, participatory elections and an end to the long dictatorship of P. D\u00ed az. Jailed for sedition but released on bail, he incited an armed insurrection that led to D\u00ed az's resignation. He was elected president in 1911. Handicapped by political inexperience and excessive idealism, he was quickly overwhelmed by conflicting pressures from conservatives and revolutionaries, and his administration ended in personal and national disaster when he was assassinated in 1913. See also Mexican Revolution, P. Villa, E. Zapata.


Paterson
City (pop., 1996 est.: 150,000), NE New Jersey. It is located on the Passaic River, north of Newark, N.J. It was founded in 1791 as an industrial settlement by advocates of U.S. industrial independence from Europe. The successful enterprise, begun by A. Hamilton, was known as the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. In the 19th cent. it was a center of cotton textile production, the silk industry, and locomotive manufacturing. It received a city charter in 1851 and was the scene of many labor disputes. By the 20th cent. its industries were widely diversified.


Pedersen
Danish linguist. He specialized in comparative Celtic grammar but made influential contributions to many other areas of linguistics. In addition to his Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages (2 vols., 1909-13), he published works on Albanian, Armenian, Russian, and Indo-European dialects; on Lithuanian, Hittite, Tocharian, Czech, and ...

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