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child abuse
child abuse physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others responsible for a child's welfare. Physical abuse is characterized by physical injury, usually inflicted as a result of a beating or inappropriately harsh discipline. Sexual abuse include... Read more
child labor
child labor use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. Children had formerly been apprenticed (see apprenticeship ) or had worked in the family, but... Read more
Childe Hassam
Childe Hassam (Frederick Childe Hassam) , 1859-1935, American painter and printmaker, b. Boston, studied in Paris. With their flickering light and airy palette, Hassam's sprightly landscapes, cityscapes, and interiors show the strong influence of late 19th-century French painting, and he is probab... Read more
Francis James Child
Francis James Child 1825-96, American scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1846. At Harvard he was professor of rhetoric (1851-76) and English literature (1876-96). He greatly influenced modern methods of Chaucer study. He is best known, however, for his English and Scottish Popular Ballads (5 vol.... Read more
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child 1802-80, American author and abolitionist, b. Lydia Maria Francis, Medford, Mass. She edited (1826-34) the Juvenile Miscellany, a children's periodical. She and her husband (David Lee Child, whom she married in 1828) were devoted to the antislavery cause; she wrote widely read p... Read more
Vere Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe 1892-1957, British archaeologist, b. Australia. An Oxford graduate, he taught at the Univ. of Edinburgh (1927-46) and the Univ. of London (1946-56). He gained renown for his monumental synthesis of European prehistory, The Dawn of European Civilization (1925, 6th ed. 1957), and... Read more
William Childs Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland 1914-2005, U.S. general, b. Spartanburg co., S.C. He graduated from West Point in 1936 and fought with distinction in North Africa and Europe during World War II and later (1952-53) in Korea. After serving (1960-64) as superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland attained ... Read more
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher [Gr.,=Christ bearer], 3d cent.?, martyr of Asia Minor. His characteristic legend is that one day when he was carrying a little child over a river, he felt the child's weight almost too great to bear. The child was Jesus, carrying the world in his hands. Hence St. Christopher is us... Read more
Immanuel
Immanuel or Emmanuel [Heb.,=God with us], in the Book of Isaiah, name given to the child who would be a sign to Judah of her deliverance. In the Gospel of St. Matthew it is given as a name of Jesus. ... Read more
Grace Abbott
Grace Abbott 1878-1939, American social worker, b. Grand Island, Nebr. She did notable work as director (1921-34) of the Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau. The Child and the State (2 vol., 1938) is her most important publication. Her sister, Edith Abbott, 1876-1957, became dean... Read more

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Vere Gordon Childe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Vere Gordon Childe The Australian prehistorian and archeologist Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) pioneered in the systematic study...civilizations. On April 14, 1892, V. Gordon Childe was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He studied...
Frederick Childe Hassam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Frederick Childe Hassam Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was a pioneer American impressionist painter whose work always retained a definitely native flavor. Childe Hassam was born in Dorchester, Mass., on Oct. 17, 1859...
Childe Hassam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Childe Hassam (Frederick Childe Hassam) , 1859-1935, American painter and printmaker, b. Boston...by D. F. Hoopes (1988); I. S. Fort, The Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam (1988); H. B. Weinberg et al., Childe Hassam, American...
Rheta Childe Dorr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Rheta Childe Dorr Rheta Childe Dorr (1868-1948) was a member of the National Woman Suffrage...fought hard for women's suffrage. As a child in Nebraska, Rheta Childe routinely disobeyed her parents. At age twelve she sneaked out of...
Childe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Childe, in ‘Childe Harold’, ‘Childe Roland’, etc., signifies a youth of gentle birth, and is used as a kind of title.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a poem in Spenserian stanzas by Byron , of which the...in 1818. The poem describes the travels, experiences, and reflections of Childe Harold, a self-styled and self-exiled pilgrim whose wanderings correspond...
Childe Waters
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Childe Waters, one of the most beautiful of the old ballads, celebrating the constancy of Ellen to Childe Waters, her heartless lover. The ballad is in Percy's Reliques .
Childe Roland
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Childe Roland, in an old Scottish ballad, a son of King Arthur. His sister, Burd...the castle of the king of Elfland. Aided by the instructions of Merlin, Childe Roland makes his way into the castle and rescues his sister.Child Rowland...
Roland, Childe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Roland, Childe, see Childe Roland .
Rowland, Childe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Rowland, Childe, see Childe Roland .

Dictionary entries related to "Childe,"

childe
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable childe archaic or literary word for a youth of...typically forming part of a name, as Childe Harold . The word is recorded from late Old English, and is a variant of child . Childe Roland is the hero of a poem by Browning...
Childe, Vere Gordon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Childe, Vere Gordon (1892–1957) Born in Australia, Childe became professor successively in the Universities of...Marxist emphasis on the importance of the economy, Childe nevertheless also stressed the importance of society...
Hassam, Childe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Hassam, Childe (1859–1935). American painter and printmaker. He was one of his country's earliest and most accomplished exponents...
Wandering
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...usually travel in small caravans. [Eur. Hist.: NCE , 1168] Harold, Childe seeking an end to disappointment in love, he wanders about Europe. [Br. Poetry: Byron Childe Harold ’ s Pilgrimage in Magill IV, 127] Herodias condemned...
Journey
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...during which tales are told. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales ] Childe Harold makes pilgrimage throughout Europe for liberty and personal revelation. [Br. Lit.: “ Childe Harold ’ s Pilgrimage ” in Magill IV, 127...
evolutionism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...that it was taken for granted by writers as diverse as Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Émile Durkheim , and V. Gordon Childe . The fact that it can be traced in the work of both radical and conservative theorists is indicative of the profound cultural...
Elgin Marbles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...was under the dominion of a foreign power. Byron wrote of them as ‘poor plunder from a bleeding land’ ( Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , canto ii, 1812), and a campaign to have them restored to Greece is active today. See also Phidias...
Albania
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the military dictatorship of Ali Pasha ( c. 1744–1822), whose court was described by the English poet Byron in Childe Harold . Nationalist resistance was crushed in 1831, but discontent persisted and a national league was created during the...
Genre Painting
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...century. In the twentieth century, these views of polite domesticity painted in an impressionist manner continued in the work of Childe Hassam. In contrast, the grittier aspects of urban life attracted a group of artists centered in Philadelphia and New York...
Montelius, Gustav Oscar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...origins he was, in the end, an advocate of the sort of modified diffusionism which was taken up after his death by Gordon Childe. Montelius applied his theories and tested them in relation to megalithic monuments; his The Orient and Europe (1894...

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The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...centennial of the birth of Vere Gordon Childe, probably the foremost archaeologist of the twentieth century. Childe, a longtime Marxist and personally something...archaeology. These essays do much to restore Childe to his proper place (if that had ever...
Oxford boat club meets the inspirational childe; Oarsmen's mission of homage to Hale village.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 4/13/2002; 700+ words ; ...3ins John Middleton, better known as the Childe of Hale, was born in Hale village in...visitors came to discover more about the Childe, as officials from Brasenose felt a visit...and 17ins long. Legend has it that the Childe earned great fame in his lifetime, when...
Childe Hassam (1859-1935): Rebecca Rea, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Coordinator of School Group Visits.(Looking and Learning)(Biography)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 12/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...soft atmosphere and set the mood of Childe Hassam's painting Boston Common at Twilight...museum exhibitions in 2004, Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) is once again gaining...prints. A Closer Look How do you think Childe Hassam felt about Boston and the Common...
CHILDE HASSAM EXHIBITS NEW YORK JUNE 10-SEPT. 12
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/6/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...art of America's pioneer Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Born in Dorchester...the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Childe Hassam, American Impressionist" brings...prolific Impressionist's career with "Childe Hassam and Connecticut Impressionism...
Bill Heard Jr. Dies; Launched Childe Harold Nightspot in D.C.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/19/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...70, a hard-living club owner whose Childe Harold restaurant and saloon near Dupont...music and musicians prompted him to open Childe Harold. That and his reputation as a...with the performers after hours. The Childe Harold, at 1610 20th St. NW, opened...
The magic of Childe Hassam's Beacon Hill
Newspaper article from: The Beacon Hill Times; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Hill in the same way that it did when Childe Hassam painted the scene in 1892. In...remarkably different than the one painted by Childe Hassam, owned since 1978 by the Museum...contemptible scavenger's street' when Childe Hassam painted this view looking toward...
'Childe Byron'@head.review:'Childe Byron'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/7/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...that rank with the very best anywhere in the city. Witness "Childe Byron," which opened last weekend at the Athenaeum Studio...Laura Linney). The title of Linney's play is a twist on "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," the careermaking work of George Gordon...
Met Shows the Flags Of Childe Hassam--And Great Deal More.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 6/28/2004; 700+ words ; ...Byline: Hilton Kramer The American painter Childe Hassam (1859-1935) enjoyed a very...Weinberg, the curator of the exhibition Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, at the...flag paintings are the main attraction in Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, which...
Impressions of light; Childe Hassam works at Corcoran.(ARTS)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/28/2003; 700+ words ; ...s "Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist" isn...He shortened his given name of Frederick Childe Hassam by dropping Frederick and keeping Childe Hassam, perhaps in reference to Byron's...
Browning's "Childe Roland": the visionary poetic.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Newsletter; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...the possibility that Browning regarded "Childe Roland" as an experiment in which these...I One of the intriguing elements of "Childe Roland" is the poem's circularity...where it began, with the line/title "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The...