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Important Family Of Birds: RAILS, ralz, an important family of birds, the Rallidae, related to the cranes. The rail family is widely distributed in all the temperate regions of the world, including many small oceanic islands, and numbers about 132 species. Rails are medium- to small-sized birds, characterized by a compact body mounted on strong legs with long toes, short and rounded wings, and a very short and stubby tail.
TEBE, greb, any of a family of freshwater div-; birds with legs set so far back on the body it the birds cannot walk upright on land, ey have laterally flattened tarsi (ankles) and iquely lobed feet used to propel themselves ough water. There are about 20 species of :se rather primitive birds, making up the tiily Podicipedidae of the order Podicipedi-mes. They are found in freshwater ponds, es, and slow-moving streams on all the con-3nts except Antarctica.See Also Family Of Painters:an art dealer, Hendrick van Uijlen-i(the name also appears as Uylenburgh, g, Ulenburch, and Ulenborck), he met ^Hendrick's cousin and the daughter of a distinguished Friesland family. They ttrothed in 1633 and married in 1634. In Jhe bought a mansion on the Jodenbreestraat [enough to house his growing art collection | to give him more space for teaching. He (assiduously during most of his life and had ntices such well-known painters as Ferdi-! Bol, Govaert Flinck, Gerbrand van den (it, and Aert de Gelder. irandt's first three children died in infancy. . ! he had taken a large Mortgage on his he continued to collect avidly; in his collec-Iwere valuable works by such painters as Jan lEyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules Seghers, lAdriaen Brouwer.
Guardi was born in Venice on Oct. 5, 1712, into a family of painters. He probably had his early training from his older brother Gian An¬tonio Guardi (1699-1760), who assumed charge of the family studio after the death of their father in 1716. Francesco's early career is ob¬scure; he assisted his brother and undertook oc¬casional independent work. A notice of 1764 re¬fers to him as a pupil of Canaletto. Uncertain as the citation's meaning is, it does establish that he was already known as a view painter.
On The Other Hand See Reigning Family In Russia:ROMANOFF, ro-ma'nof, the name of the late reigning family in Russia, founded by Michael Feodorovich Romanoff: b. 1598; d. 1645. He was descended through his grand¬mother from the family of Ruric, the founder of the Russian empire and came to the throne in 1613 by election of the boyars and the higher clergy. The early part of his reign was troubled by the Poles and by turbulent nobles. Western civilization gained an entrance into the country and many foreigners, particularly Scotchmen, became naturalized. France tried to disturb the commercial monopoly of Eng¬land in Russia.
War with Russia. In the face of these disap¬pointments, Gustav began to neglect his reform program and turned restlessly to foreign affairs. He had long hoped to seize Norway from Den¬mark after winning Russia away from its Danish alliance. When, however, Catherine II of Russia made it clear that she would stand by Denmark and secretly encouraged Gustav's opponents in Sweden in hopes of overthrowing his regime, Gustav took advantage of Russia's war with Tur¬key to attack Russia in July 1788. But the Rus¬sians managed to contain the sudden attack upon St. Petersburg, which was the basis of Gustav's strategy, and Denmark declared war on Sweden. |
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