George Brown
George Brown 1818-80, Canadian statesman and journalist, b. Scotland. In 1837 he emigrated to the United States, but after five years in New York City, he settled in Toronto, Ont. There he founded (1844) the Toronto Globe, which under his editorship became the most powerful political journal in Upper Canada. He wholeheartedly supported Robert Baldwin and the movement for responsible government. Elected in 1851 as a Reform member of the Canadian legislative assembly, Brown in time became leader of the "Clear Grits" faction, which opposed the influence of the French Canadians in the assembly. He urged the secularization of the Clergy Reserves (lands reserved for the Protestant churches), a national school system, the purchase of the Northwest Territories, and representation by population instead of the equal representation for Quebec and Ontario as established by the Act of Union (1840). Brown played an important role in the movement for confederation. Despite his personal and political hatred for Sir John A. Macdonald , he joined (1864) "the great coalition" ministry and with Macdonald and others went to England in 1865 to urge Canadian confederation. He resigned that year from the government because of his inability to work with Macdonald and left Parliament in 1867. He later (1873) accepted appointment to the Canadian Senate, serving until he was shot to death by an insane employee.
Bibliography: See biography by J. M. S. Careless (2 vol., 1959-63).
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Review of the distribution, status and conservation of musk deer in China
Magazine article from: Folia Zoologica; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...five species of musk deer of the genus Moschus, in China, occurring in about 17 provinces...requirements. Key words: musk deer, Moschus, conservation status, China Introduction Musk deer Moschus spp. are very shy, solitary animals...
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Research from Sichuan University yields new data on cytometry.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 5/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...potential of Myrrh, Borneolum, Olibanum, Moschus and Cassia Bark, which are widely used...extract. Myrrh, Borneolum, Olibanum and Moschus induced dose-dependent cell proliferation...in local lymph nodes was increased in Moschus-, Olibanum-, Myrrh- and Borneolum...
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One Third of the Earth? Europe Seen and Unseen in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...its oldest known complete version, that of the Greek poet Moschus (second century B.C.E.), this tale is already deeply...she gladly fondles and kisses the remarkably attentive bull. Moschus's representation of the unfamiliar as inspiring desire...
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East.
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...hand to retrace the steps of these ancient holy men. His route was not precisely that of Moschus--he began at Mt. Athos which did not exist in Moschus' day as a monastic city and ended in Egypt--but with admirable persistence and at times...
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Data on DNA research described by researchers at Sichuan University.
Newspaper article from: Proteomics Weekly; 2/23/2009; 700+ words
; "Forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) were once distributed widely in China. However, wild...Animal Genetics (Genetic diversity of captive forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) inferred from the mitochondrial DNA control region...
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A brief history of the Moxa Roll.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Chinese Medicine; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...powders into the mugwort floss, often including She Xiang (Moschus), Chuan Shan Jia (Manitis Squama) and Ru Xiang (Olibanum...Cortex/peach tree bark), and 1.5 grams of She Xiang (Moschus). Make them into a powder and mix it with the mugwort. Cut...
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Bantock's Banter and Bravura. (On Music).
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...piece and the tone poem The Cyprian Goddess (1938/9)--its score bedecked with quotations from Horace, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion--plus Dante and Beatrice (1901, revised 1910) are to be found on Hyperion 66810. The Cyprian Goddess is...
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The textualizing of sound: Romantic-period pseudo-songs.
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the Last Minstrel," and, among the vestiges of ancient poetry, the Song of Solomon, Psalms, and the pseudo-songs of Moschus, Bion, Theocritus, Anacreon (translated into English poetry by Thomas Moore), that which is script or typography is presented...
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Review of Derek Krueger's Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Bible and Critical Theory; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...asceticism makes a particularly suitable analogue to the writing of saintly lives in that both signal the creation of controlled selves. In the seventh century, John Moschus and Leontious of Neapolis affirmed that writing actually substituted
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What kinds of external therapies can be adopted for chronic prostatitis?(Abstracts)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Chinese Medicine; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Foeniculi Fructus) and Rou Gui (Cinnamomi Cortex). 5. Herbs applied to the umbilicus. i. Ground pepper mixed with 0.15g of Moschus is put on the umbilicus, covered with paper and fixed in place for 7-10 days. Six courses of 10 days are given. ii. A...
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Moschus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Moschus , fl. c.150 BC, Greek bucolic poet of the school of Theocritus. He is called a Syracusan...on Europa. Although Lament for Bion, a beautiful dirge has traditionally been ascribed to Moschus, it is probably of later date.
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John Moschus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
John Moschus. See MOSCHUS, JOHN .
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Moschus, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Moschus, John (b. c. 550; d. 619 or 634), spiritual writer. About 575 he retired to a monastery near Jerusalem; later, he travelled...
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Deer
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the relatively pronounced differences between Moschus and other deer. Unlike other deer, Moschus has a gall bladder, and where the females of other species have two pairs of teats, Moschus has only one pair. Deer have short hair ranging...
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Theocritus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...include Andrew Lang, ed. and trans., Theocritus, Bion and Moschus (1880); R. J. Cholmeley, ed., The Idylls of Theocritus...and Other Poems of Theocritus with the Fragments of Bion and Moschus (1924); Gilbert Lawall, Theocritus' Coan Pastorals: A...
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