Giuseppe Fieschi
Giuseppe Fieschi , 1790-1836, French conspirator, b. Corsica. He was a soldier in the Napoleonic army. A radical, he attempted in July, 1835, to assassinate King Louis Philippe. He rigged up an arrangement of several guns that fired together, killing approximately 18 people. He was executed. His attempted assassination resulted in increased repression by the government.
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Happy birthday, whoever you were That a humble glover's son from Stratford could not have written Hamlet, the Sonnets - or anything else attributed to the bard. On Shakespeare's birthday, James Shapiro debunks the debunkers
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...written by a group that included Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Bacon...Richard Barnfield, Robert Burton, Sir Robert Cecil, the Earl of Derby...Thomas Sackville, Michael Drayton, Sir Edward Dyer, Bartholomew Griffin, Ben Jonson...
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Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence
Magazine article from: Skeptic; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the most popular candidates are Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Edward Dyer, the earl of Derby, and especially Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford...frequently the earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. Oxfordians organize the...
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Shakespeare's authorship and questions of evidence.(News)
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the most popular candidates are Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Edward Dyer, the earl of Derby, and especially Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford...frequently the earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. Oxfordians organize the...
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Sequel; Beating Up on the Bard; Oxfordians: Out, Out Damned Will
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/18/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Shakespeare" was but a pseudonym for Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford...closest to Shakespeare - among them, Sir Walter Raleigh, Richard Barnefeld, Michael Drayton, and Sir Edward Dyer - still sported no more than a 1...
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Computer Test Authenticates Shakespeare
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/21/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Oxford, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Edward Dyer, Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh. The results so far, Elliott said...them come anywhere close: Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh. "Queen Elizabeth flunks five...
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Legislators give Wilson humanities class an A: The educational work of four teachers earns the Golden Apple Award for an outstanding school program.
Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA); 5/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...read "The Lowest Trees Have Tops," a poem written by Sir Edward Dyer in 1603. He also played a version of the poem that musical...springs. And love is love, in beggars and in kings." Dyer's lines ask readers to find diamonds in the rough and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/11/1995; 625 words
; ...Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, novelist, 1905. Deaths: Sir Edward Dyer, poet, buried 1607; Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary...Franois-Eugne Vidocq, adventurer and detective, 1857; Sir John Frederick Herschel, astronomer, 1871; Max Reger...
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Nicholas Oldisworth, Richard Bacon, and the practices of Caroline friendship.
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Greville was celebrated in the latter's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney (published only in 1652, but written between...rivalry in the composition of sonnets with Greville and Sir Edward Dyer, conducted a lengthy correspondence with Hubert Languet...
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SONGS FOR HOBBLE-DE-HOYS & GIGGLE-DE-SHE'S
Magazine article from: Journal of Singing; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Gaily; V/mE, P/E; 1 page. 3. Dowland, John (1563-1626). "The Lowest Trees Have Tops" (Attributed to Sir Edward Dyer). D minor; D^sub 4^-D^sub 5^; Tess: M; 2/2, Moderately fast; V/M, P/M; 2 pages. 4. Giles...
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Windows show us the world, but open into our souls too
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...On another occasion, at Richmond, her favourite home - she called it 'a warm box for my old age' - she spotted Sir Edward Dyer moodily kicking stones in the drive. He had thought she would give him a cushy government job but, despite many...
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Sir Edward Dyer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Edward Dyer 1543?-1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is."
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Dyer, Sir Edward
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Dyer, Sir Edward (1543–1607), poet, was...x2019;, is probably not his work, but by Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford . One of the best...poems is his elegy on his close friend Sir P. Sidney , which begins ‘Silence...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Philip Sidney The English poet...courtier, diplomat, and soldier Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586...Thomas Drant, Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, and Edmund Spenser. In his...Sidney married the daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. He was...
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Agricola, Georgius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x2019; s father was probably Gregor Bauer, a dyer and woolen draper. His youngest son, Hans...He also joined the English group headed by Edward Wotton and John Clement, son-in-law of Sir Thomas More. This group may have aroused Agricola...
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The 1940s: Medicine and Health: Awards
Book article from: American Decades
...discovery of vitamin K. Edward A. Doisy (United States...single nerve fibers. 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, and Sir Howard W. Florey (Great...1948 No award. 1949 Edward C. Kendall and Philip...health. 1948 R. E. Dyer for his microbiological...
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