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39 matches to Ball
Nijinsky, Vaslaw. 1890-1950. Russian ballet dancer of Diaghilev Company.
Nureyev, Rudolph. 1938-93. Russian ballet dancer. Defected 1961.
Ossianic Ballads. 11-18C Irish based on 3C themes of Finn MacCool. Oisin.
Pavlova, Anna. 1849-1931. Russian ballerina.
Piccard, Auguste. 1884-1962. Swiss physicist. Balloon to stratosphere. Bathyscaphe below ocean.
Pilâtre de Rosier, Jean-François. 1756-85. Physician and balloonist. First ascent 1783 with Montgolfier; First free flight 1783 with d’Arlandes. Killed trying to cross Channel.
Robert, Charles. Paris balloonist 1783.
Ronald. Pith ball electric telegraph 1816.
Royal Ballet. 1956. Academy of Choreographic Art 1926 + Sadler’s Wells 1930.
Soccer War. 1969. Honduras vs El Salvador. Triggered by football game and economic conditions.
Tchaikovsky, Peter. 1840-93. Russian composer of operas and ballets with emotional appeal. Swan Lake 1877. Sleeping Beauty 1890. Nutcracker 1892.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. 1872-1958. English Nationalist composer of symphonies, ballads, songs. Combined folk idiom with 16C polyphony. Sea 1910. Pastoral Symphony 1922.
Wilde, Oscar. 1854-1900. Irish writer. Imprisoned for homosexuality. “Art for art’s sake”. Dorian Gray 1891. Importance of Being Earnest 1895. Ballad of Reading Gaol 1898.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.