personages

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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

"These films seek to challenge what we think we know about historical personages or important historical incidents. They are out to create a new alt-history."

From BBC • May 3, 2024

But foreign governments, political parties and "friendly personages" will not be invited to send delegations or representatives to China to attend the mourning activities, the official Xinhua news agency said.

From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2022

‘Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance’ It’s your last weekend to catch this exhibition featuring portraits of royals, courtiers, scholars and other once-prominent personages painted by 16th-century German artist Hans Holbein the Younger.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

If, at the end of their training, there was not a Fowl to guard, then the Butlers were eagerly snapped up as bodyguards for various royal personages, generally in Monaco or Saudi Arabia.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer