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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey 1773-1850, Scottish critic and judge. He was a founder and editor of the Edinburgh Review, which printed his critical essays. Bibliography: See his Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (4 vol., 1844). ... Read more
George Jeffreys Jeffreys of Wem, 1st Baron
George Jeffreys Jeffreys of Wem, 1st Baron 1645?-1689, English judge under Charles II and James II . A notoriously cruel judge, he presided over many of the trials connected with the Popish Plot (see Oates, Titus ) and was responsible for the judicial murder of Algernon Sidney and for the bruta... Read more
Taunton
Taunton , city (1991 pop. 47,793), county seat of Somerset, SW England, on the Trove River. Its industries include the manufacture of textiles, shirts, gloves, and precision instruments. Taunton is also a market and railroad junction. Tourism is economically important. There are three well-known sch... Read more
Dorchester
Dorchester , town (1991 pop. 13,734), county seat of Dorset, S central England. Dorchester is a busy agricultural market, especially for sheep and lambs. Printing, leatherworking, brewing, and the manufacture of agricultural machinery are important industries. Nearby is Maiden Castle, a fortificatio... Read more
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood 1799-1845, English poet. He was an editor of various prominent magazines and periodicals. The greater proportion of his work was written in a humorous vein, and he was celebrated for his use of figurative language, especially puns. However, it is in his serious poems, notably "The Son... Read more
Michael Jeffrey Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan 1963-, American basketball player, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As a freshman at the Univ. of North Carolina, he made the shot that won the 1982 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament final over Georgetown. Joining the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Associa... Read more
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter 1615-91, English nonconformist clergyman. Ordained in 1638, he began his ministry at Kidderminster in 1641. He sided with Parliament when the civil war broke out and served (1645-47) as a chaplain in Cromwell's army, where he urged moderation in both religious and political opinions.... Read more
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks 1956-, American film actor famous for his roles as an amiable American everyman, b. Concord, Calif., as Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. In 1980 he acted in his first film, and in 1980-82 he co-starred in a television sitcom. Hanks subsequently appeared in numerous Hollywood comedies, among them Sp... Read more
Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans 1887-1946, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was professor of applied mathematics at Princeton Univ. (1905-9), later lectured at Cambridge (1910-12) and Oxford (1922), and was research associate at Mt. Wilson Observatory (1923-44). He was knighted in 1928.... Read more
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden 1714-94, British jurist. Appointed (1761) chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned wide popularity as a result of his ruling in Entick v. Carrington (1763), where he pronounced against the legality of the general warrant under which John Wilkes was ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Jeffrey Dahmer"

Serial Killers
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...attempt to understand serial killers. The serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer would go to bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and pick up...emotional reason he commits the crime does not change. In Dahmer's case his murder signature showed the sadistic sexual... Read more
Courtroom Television Network
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...obscure Florida murder trial but soon had high profile cases to cover, including the prosecution of murderer-cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and the trials of accused parent murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez. Court TV's viewership slowly increased. In addition... Read more
Cannibalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, along with the extensive media coverage of cannibalistic criminals such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Gary Heidnik, and Albert Fish, speaks volumes about the public's fascination with cannibalism. Moviegoers' sympathetic... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Jeffrey Dahmer"

Serial Killings
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Atlanta; Richard Ramirez of southern California; and Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who by his own admission tortured, killed, and dismembered...fifteen. Sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms, Dahmer was bludgeoned to death in prison in 1994. BIBLIOGRAPHY... Read more

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Why Jeffrey Dahmer killed so many black men.
Magazine article from: Jet; 12/19/1994; 555 words ; ...hard hours debating exactly why Jeffrey Dahmer killed so many young Black men...was in prison. Smith revealed that Dahmer, 34, was not prejudiced as much...This Morning. Smith explained that Dahmer told her that he targeted her brother... Read more
Confessions of a serial killer's father. (Lionel Dahmer, father of Jeffrey Dahmer)
Magazine article from: Interview; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...their children has been murdered. For Lionel Dahmer, the discovery that Jeffrey Dahmer, his son, had murdered so many other people...1991 and sentenced to 957 years in prison, Jeffrey Dahmer had taken the lives of seventeen men, dismembered... Read more
Dahmer killed 17 people but never handcuffed in court, unlike black man accused of his murder. (Jeffrey Dahmer, Christopher Scarver) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 1/9/1995; 149 words ; ...photographs of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's trial that he was not in handcuffs...who is accused of killing him. Dahmer, who lured 17 victims--many of them...examination of dozens of photos taken of Dahmer while on trial for the heinous crimes... Read more
Inmate attacked with Dahmer dies from trauma. (Jesse Anderson, Jeffrey Dahmer)
Magazine article from: Jet; 12/19/1994; 185 words ; ...prisoner who was bludgeoned along with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died just days after Dahmer when doctors removed him from life support in...as being hostile toward Whites. And since both Dahmer's and Anderson's crimes affected Blacks, officials... Read more
So guilty they're innocent. (criminal innocence and the sanity plea: the case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/2/1992; 534 words ; ...stretched? We may find out in the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee anthropophagite. Dahmer's lawyer argues that his cannibal-murders...even from extending empathy to such acts as Dahmer's. The same is true of many less bizarre atrocities... Read more
Hello, Eleanor? (a brief humorous look at various news items, including Hilary Clinton's relations with Eleanor Roosevelt, Jeffrey Dahmer's belongings, Timothy Leary ashes, Russian election slander, and AIDS activists battling animal righters)(Off the Map)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...YOUR HEART, YOU KNOW HE'S DRUNK. * Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where some guy spent half a million dollars to buy all of Jeffrey Dahmer's personal effects just so he could destroy them. Meanwhile, they're going to release seven grams of Timothy Leary... Read more
(movie review)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 7/9/2002; ; 577 words ; ...those who will refuse to see Dahmer, David Jacobson's dramatized portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee man who murdered...answers. Issues of authority (Dahmer shares a tense rapport with...identification? The Pandora's box of Dahmer's sanity is not even touched...picture was made. It ... Read more
Glenn Ligon at Max Protetch.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1996; ; 396 words ; ...magazines and ending with evocations of Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism. A member of a new generation...is tucked Newsweek's 1992 issue with Jeffrey Dahmer on the cover. In Colonial, small pictures of Dahmer's victims--all men of color--have been... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 1/1/1997; ; 502 words ; ...the Branch Davidians, Ross Perot, Michael Milken, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown debacle, and AIDS. In...suggests comparisons between Hannibal Lecter and both Jeffrey Dahmer and Ross Perot. In a perceptive analysis of The Hand... Read more
Damien Hirst. (Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/1993; ; 517 words ; ...lambs, cows, and their various body parts. Some of this work is spectacularly morbid: imagine Haim Steinbach and Jeffrey Dahmer collaborating on site-specific pieces for a municipal zoo. But Hirst is ultimately concerned less with instilling... Read more