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Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer 1805-81, English landscape watercolorist, etcher, and mystic. Under the influence of William Blake he produced in sepia a series of remarkable visionary drawings of moonlit landscapes. Palmer is also known for his Italian and English landscapes in watercolor, his illustrations of Spen...
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Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer 1929-, American golfer, b. Latrobe, Pa. The son of a professional golfer, he won three regional titles in his youth. Turning professional after winning the 1954 U.S. amateur championship, he won the 1955 Canadian Open. Palmer won the Masters tournament in 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1964, b...
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Ray Palmer
Ray Palmer 1808-87, American Congregational clergyman and hymn writer, b. Little Compton, R.I., grad. Yale, 1830. He held pastorates in Bath, Maine (1835-50), and Albany, N.Y. (1850-66). He is remembered chiefly for the hymn "My Faith Looks up to Thee" (1830), a worldwide favorite, for which Lo...
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Daniel David Palmer
Daniel David Palmer 1845-1913, American founder of chiropractic, b. near Toronto, Canada. He practiced and taught chiropractic , chiefly in Davenport, Iowa. His work was carried on and extended by his son, Bartlett J. Palmer.
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Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Nathaniel Brown Palmer 1799-1877, American sea captain and antarctic explorer, b. Stonington, Conn. While on a whaling voyage (1820-21) in the South Shetlands, he commanded the Hero on an exploring trip to the south and came back with a report that he had sighted land. Hence the name Palmer Land ...
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Erastus Dow Palmer
Erastus Dow Palmer 1817-1904, American sculptor, b. Pompey, N.Y., self-taught. A carpenter in his youth, he spent his leisure time cutting cameos. He progressed to carving bas-reliefs and then figures in the round, sculpted to conform with the classical ideal. His first full-length figure, The Ind...
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Richard Palmer Blackmur
Richard Palmer Blackmur 1904-65, American critic and poet, b. Springfield, Mass. Although he had no formal education after high school, he was a resident fellow (1940-48) and professor (1948-65) at Princeton. His volumes of alert, precise, yet provisional appraisals of literature include The Art o...
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George Palmer Putnam
George Palmer Putnam 1814-72, American publisher, b. Brunswick, Maine; grandnephew of Israel Putnam. A member of the New York City bookselling firm of Wiley and Putnam, he established a branch in London in 1841. He later returned to New York to found (1848) G. P. Putnam's Sons. He was proprietor of...
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody , 1804-94, American educator, lecturer, and reformer, b. Billerica, Mass. The Peabody family moved (c.1809) to Salem, where the father began practicing dentistry. Of the three Peabody sisters, the second, Mary, married Horace Mann , and the youngest, Sophia, married Nathani...
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Roundell Palmer Selborne, 1st earl of
Roundell Palmer Selborne, 1st earl of , 1812-95, British jurist and statesman. Called to the bar in 1837, he entered Parliament in 1847 as a nominal Conservative. He soon was associated more with the Liberals, however, and served Lord Palmerston as solicitor general (1861-63) and Palmerston and Lord...
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