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Joseph Bingham
Joseph Bingham 1668-1723, English theologian. He is known for his learned work on Christian antiquities (10 vol., 1708-22).
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Caleb Bingham
Caleb Bingham , 1757-1817, American textbook writer, b. Salisbury, Conn. He taught until 1796, then became a bookseller and publisher in Boston. He wrote and published some of the earliest grammars, spelling books, and geographies. He was best known for his readers The American Preceptor (1794) an...
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Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham 1875-1956, American archaeologist, historian, and statesman, b. Honolulu; son of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908). He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1898), the Univ. of California (M.A., 1900), and Harvard (M.A., 1901; Ph.D., 1905) and later taught (1907-23) at Yale. Bingham headed archaeolog...
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George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham 1811-79, American genre painter and politician, b. Augusta co., Va. His family moved (1819) to Missouri, which was the site of most of Bingham's activities. In 1837 he studied for a short time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1856 to 1859 he traveled in Europe...
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Point Four program
Point Four program U.S. foreign aid project aimed at providing technological skills, knowledge, and equipment to poor nations throughout the world. The program also encouraged the flow of private investment capital to these nations. The project received its name from the fourth point of a program s...
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu , Inca site in Peru, about 50 mi (80 km) NW of Cuzco. It is perched high upon a rock in a narrow saddle between two sharp mountain peaks and overlooks the Urubamba River 2,000 ft (600 m) below. Ignored and later forgotten by Spanish colonial authorities because of its abandoned condit...
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Sir Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving 1838-1905, English actor and manager, originally named John Henry Brodribb. He made his debut in 1856 and achieved fame in 1871 with his portrayal of Mathias in Leopold Lewis's The Bells, a role he often repeated. Irving managed the Lyceum Theatre, London, from 1878 to 1903, and ...
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American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Founded (1920) by such prominent figures as Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Judah Magnus, and Norman Thomas, the ACLU grew out of earlier grou...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr , 1892-1971, American religious and social thinker, b. Wright City, Mo. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, he served (1915-28) as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, where he became deeply interested in social problems. In 1928 he began teaching at Union Theological Sem...
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, English dramatist and politician, b. Dublin. His father, Thomas Sheridan, was an actor and teacher of elocution and his mother, Frances Sheridan, published two novels and a successful play. Sheridan was educated by tutors and at Harrow. After his elopement in 17...
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