Isaac Jones Wistar
Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905, American financier, b. Philadelphia; great-nephew of Caspar Wistar. His early manhood was spent adventurously in the West as a muleteer, trapper, and gold miner. In the Civil War he was a brigadier general in the Union army and was wounded four times. After the war he made his fortune by financing railroad building. He established the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia with gifts of $1 million.
Bibliography: See his autobiography (1914).
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International and comparative federalism. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...general consent. Classic confederations include the Greek Achaean League and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The best modern...as: (1) unions (e.g., the United Kingdom); (2) leagues (e.g., ASEAN); (3) condominiums (Andorra with France...
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Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron.
Magazine article from: Hesperia; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Pleuron was supposedly sacked during the Demetrian War of 239-229 between Macedon and an alliance of the Aitolian and Achaean Leagues. Although we know little about this war, it is reasonable to assume that the citizens of Pleuron would have been...
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Why Latin? Why Greek?; The search for truth . . . and beauty.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/22/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Numa, Tullius Hostilius, Brutus, Servius Tullius, Romulus, Crete, the Locrians, Rome, Athens, Sparta and the Achaean League. Madison, the Father of the Constitution, was just as much at home in Greek and Latin as he was in English and...
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Achaean League
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Achaean League , confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth. The First Achaean League, about which little is known...was dissolved soon after. The Second Achaean League was founded in 280 BC Sicyon was...
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Aetolian League
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aetolian League confederation centering in the cities of Aetolia...began to gain power in the 3d cent. in opposing the Achaean League and the Macedonians. At its height, the league stretched across Greece from sea to sea, including...
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Aratus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...brought Sicyon into the Achaean League, one of the two Greek...time. From 245 on, the Achaean League elected him general...Macedon and the Hellenic League to declare war on Aetolia...Philip, Aratus fostered Achaean interests, but the Achaean...
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Polybios
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...general and statesman of the Achaean League. Through his father Polybios became involved early in the Achaean League, which he served both as...the Romans in the same year, the Achaean League crushed, and Greece turned...
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Achaea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Greece by the Dorian invasion. The small Achaean cities eventually banded together in the First Achaean League , but exerted little influence. Later, however, the Second Achaean League became an important factor. After...
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