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phantasmagoria (medicine) and Uriburu, Jose Felix (sh)


phantasmagoria (medicine)


phantasmagoria


1. An optical effect produced by a Magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colours, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another.

2. The apparatus by which such an effect is produced.

3. A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria."

Origin: NL, from Gr. A phantasm + an assembly, fr. To gather: cf. F. Phantasmagorie.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Uriburu, Jose Felix (sh)




born July 20, 1868, Salta, Arg.
died April 29, 1932, Paris, Fr.

Argentine soldier and dictator.

Nephew of a former president, he was a firm believer in class privileges. A visit to Germany made him an ardent admirer of Prussian militarism. In 1930 he led a coup against Hipolito Irigoyen's liberal regime, replacing the governing class with an elite representing the landed oligarchy, dissolving the legislature, and revising the laws to prohibit liberal-radicals from political participation. In 1931 he arranged a fraudulent election to ensure the oligarchy's continued control and stepped down in favour of a fellow officer, Agustin Justo.