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(1905-1958)
English actor of Anglo-Polish parentage. He started out in the theater and made one film in Hollywood (The Count of Monte Cristo 1934). His other films include Alfred Hitchcock’s The Thirty-Nine Steps 1935, Goodbye, Mr Chips 1939 for which he won an Academy Award, and The Winslow Boy 1948.

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To make a donation of.

Given freely especially to a cause or fund.

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(Donato di Niccolo) (c. 1386-1466) Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance. He was instrumental in reviving the Classical style, as in his graceful bronze statue of the youthful David about 1433 (Bargello, Florence) and his equestrian statue of the general Gattamelata 1447–50 (Piazza del Santo, Padua). The course of Florentine art in the 15th century was strongly influenced by his work.
Donatello introduced true perspective in his relief sculptures, such as the panel of St George Slaying the Dragon about 1415–17 (Or San Michele, Florence). He absorbed Classical influences during a stay in Rome 1430–32, and David is said to be the first life-size, free-standing nude since antiquity. In his later work, such as his wood-carving of the aged Mary Magdalene about 1456 (Baptistry, Florence), he sought dramatic expression through a distorted, emaciated figural style.

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(1826-1873)
Italian astronomer who discovered six comets. He made important contributions to the early development of stellar spectroscopy and applied spectroscopic methods to the understanding of the nature of comets. He also studied cosmic meteorology.
Donati was born and educated in Pisa. From 1852 he worked at the observatory in Florence, becoming its director 1864.
During the 1850s Donati was an enthusiastic comet-seeker, and the most dramatic of his discoveries was named for him. Donati’s comet, first sighted 1858, had, in addition to its major tail, two narrow extra tails.
Using the new technique of stellar spectroscopy, Donati found that when a comet was still distant from the Sun, its spectrum was identical to that of the Sun. When the comet approached the Sun, it increased in magnitude (brightness) and its spectrum became completely different. Donati concluded that when the comet was still distant from the Sun, the light it emanated was simply a reflection of sunlight. As the comet approached the Sun the material in it became so heated that it emitted a light of its own, which reflected the comet's composition.
Other areas of interest which engaged Donati's attention were atmospheric phenomena and events in higher zones, such as the aurora borealis.

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ETYM Latin donatio; cf. French donation.
1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
2. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another as a gift.
3. The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another as a free gift.

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Forged 8th-century document purporting to record the Roman emperor Constantine's surrender of temporal sovereignty in W Europe to Pope Sylvester I (314–25).
In the Middle Ages, this document was used as papal propaganda in the struggle between pope and emperor, which was at its most heated during the investiture contest. It was finally exposed as forged by the German philosopher Nicholas of Cusa and Lorenzo Valla in the 15th century.

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The doctrines of a Christian sect arising in North Africa in 311 and holding that sanctity is essential for the administration of sacraments and church membership.

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Member of a puritanical Christian movement in 4th-and 5th-century N Africa, named for Donatus of Casae Nigrae, a 3rd-century bishop, later known as Donatus of Carthage.
The Donatists became for a time the main Christian movement in N Africa; following the tradition of Montanism, their faith stressed the social revolutionary aspects of Christianity, the separation of church from state, and a belief in martyrdom and suffering. Their influence was ended by Bishop Augustine of Hippo; they were formally condemned 412.