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Perón, Eva

  1. An Argentine political figure of the twentieth century; the wife of President Juan Perón of Argentina . Crafty and ambitious, she had great influence on her husband and achieved immense popularity among the Argentinean masses through her charitable activities. She died of cancer in the 1950s.

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Notes

The musical play Evita is loosely based on Eva Perón's life.

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Example Sentences

That makes him pretty much the most famous Argentine since Eva Perón.

Like a modern-day Eva Perón, Julian Assange emerged to speak from the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy.

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