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Seneca
Seneca the elder (Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca) , c.60 BC-c.AD 37, Roman rhetorician and writer, b. Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain; grandfather of Lucan and father of Seneca the younger. He spent most of his life in Spain but made frequent trips to Rome, where he observed the...
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Seneca
Seneca the younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) loo´shes enē´es sĕn´eke , c.3 BC-AD 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman, b. Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain. He was the son of Seneca the elder. The younger Seneca went to Rome in his childhood, studi...
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milkwort
milkwort common name for the Polygalaceae, a family including herbs, shrubs, and trees found in all parts of the world except New Zealand and the polar regions. Several milkworts (genus Polygala ), perennial herbs, are native to moist habitats of the United States and are sometimes cultivated as o...
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Mary Jemison
Mary Jemison 1743-1833, American frontierswoman. She was born at sea while her parents were en route from Ireland to America. In W Pennsylvania she was captured (1758) by a French and Indian War party, taken to Fort Duquesne, and given to two Seneca women, who adopted her. She was married twice (to...
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Robert Garnier
Robert Garnier , 1534?-1590, French dramatic poet. He wrote mainly closet dramas in the classical manner of Seneca. Les Juives [the Jewish women] (1583), based on the Bible, is perhaps the best of his tragedies. He is also credited with the first tragicomedy in French, Bradamante (1582).
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Tiffin
Tiffin city (1990 pop. 18,604), seat of Seneca co., N central Ohio, on the scenic Sandusky River in a farm area; inc. 1835. China, glassware, machinery, wire and cable, and electrical equipment are made in the city. Heidelberg College and Tiffin Univ. are there.
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Handsome Lake
Handsome Lake 1735?-1815, Seneca religious prophet; half brother of Cornplanter . After a long illness he had a vision (c.1800) and began to preach new religious beliefs. His moral teachings showed a similarity to Christian ethics and had a profound effect among the Iroquois. He advocated giving u...
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Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake , 38 mi (61 km) long and 1 to 3.5 mi (1.6-5.6 km) wide, W central N.Y.; longest of the Finger Lakes. It is connected by the Seneca-Cayuga Canal to the New York State Canal System . Cornell Univ. and Wells College overlook Cayuga's clifflike banks. Near the southern end of the lake are T...
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Gallio
Gallio (Junius Annaeus Gallio) , d. AD 65?, Roman proconsul in Achaea; brother of the philosopher Seneca. His name was originally Lucius Annaeus Novatus. The "Gallio Inscription," discovered at Delphi, can be dated to c.AD 51. The Acts of the Apostles relates that he refused judgment on a ques...
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Red Jacket
Red Jacket c.1758-1830, chief of the Seneca, b. probably Seneca co., N.Y. His Native American name was Otetiani, changed to Sagoyewatha when he became a chief. His English name came from the British redcoat he wore as an ally of the English in the American Revolution. He had an excellent memory and...
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