 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Schools honor famous people; Prescott, Bryant named after historian and journalist/poet
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Question: How did Bryant and Prescott schools in Dubuque get their
names?
ANSWER: According to information from the Dubuque Community School
District, Bryant School originally was called South Dodge Street
School and was built in 1865. The school became Bryant in 1916 due
to the fact that all the other elementary schools in the city were
named after famous men.
The Board of Education chose Bryant after the American poet and
newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).
Prescott was first called the Third Ward School and was
constructed in 1856. The building was renamed Prescott ...
 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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books: Back from the dead! book of the week DEAN SPANLEY - A NOVEL by Lord Dunsany.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
; ...by Irish aristocrat Lord Dunsany. Like Bulwer-Lytton...lesser works of Stoker, Dunsany is largely forgotten. A...and quite a fellow, too. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, belonged to one of the...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Peoms.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; ...and-mouth. Snow on the east wind Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) A black horse came to visit...stepped from astride him. * Anglo-Irish Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th baron, lived in Wicklow. His plays are popular...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay, historian and essayist...Picasso, painter, 1881; John Berryman, poet, 1914; Don...Lawrence, politician, 1947; Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, author, 1957; Vincent...
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