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William Wotton
William Wotton 1666-1727, English scholar. He is best known for his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694), a defense of contemporary learning written in response to an essay by Sir William Temple . Both Wotton and Temple were satirized by Swift in Battle of the Books (1704). ... Read more
William Byrde
William Byrde For persons thus named, use Byrd, William. ... Read more
William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury , c.1096-1143, English writer, monk of Malmesbury. His most important work is the Gesta regum Anglorum, a history of the kings of England from 449 to 1127, with its continuation, Historia novella (ed. by William Stubbs, 1887-89). Book V is contemporary history, especially v... Read more
Edward Calvert
Edward Calvert 1799-1883, English painter and engraver. A great admirer of William Blake, Calvert, along with several of his contemporaries, formed a group around Blake called the Brotherhood of the Ancients. Calvert's art celebrated the life of primitive society. In his later work he was deeply in... Read more
William Prout
William Prout 1785-1850, English chemist and physician. Prout's hypothesis, advanced in 1815-16, suggested that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen and that elements are formed by a condensation or grouping of hydrogen atoms. Later work on the determination of atomic weight... Read more
William of Newburgh
William of Newburgh 1136?-1198?, English chronicler, monk of Newburgh, Yorkshire. He wrote the Historia rerum Anglicarum, a history of England from 1066 to 1198. Its chief value lies in the commentary on contemporary events, particularly its analysis of the causes and effects of the anarchy under... Read more
William James Glackens
William James Glackens 1870-1938, American landscape and genre painter and illustrator, b. Philadelphia. An illustrator for Philadelphia and New York City newspapers and magazines for many years, Glackens first exhibited his paintings with the Eight and achieved fame as a brilliant painter of the... Read more
William Byrd
William Byrd 1543-1623, English composer, organist at Lincoln Cathedral and, jointly with Tallis, at the Chapel Royal. Although Roman Catholic, he composed anthems and services for the English Church in addition to his great Roman masses and Latin motets. He was esteemed by his contemporaries and w... Read more
Thomas William Robertson
Thomas William Robertson 1829-71, English dramatist and actor; brother of Madge Kendal. After spending several years as an actor, he turned to playwriting, initiating the "cup and saucer" school of drama, which was characterized by its realism and its contemporary, domestic setting. His first s... Read more
Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet , 1643-1715, Scottish bishop and writer. He studied in Scotland, England, and abroad, held minor ecclesiastical office in Scotland, and was appointed (1669) professor of divinity at Glasgow Univ. He went to London in 1673 and was lecturer at St. Clements until his defense of his frien... Read more

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William Henry Beveridge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography William Henry Beveridge The English economist and social reformer William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge...Great Britain following World War II. William Beveridge was born in Bengal, India...Century Britain (1967); W. N. Medlicott, Contemporary England, 1914-1964 (1967); and Gertrude ... Read more
Coke, Sir Edward
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...of Parliament against challenges from James I and Charles I. Coke was a contemporary of such great figures of Elizabethan England as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser...quenes atturney," as a contemporary put it, winning the post... Read more
Ellen Craft
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...she met her future husband, William Craft, also a slave. William and Ellen Craft are most famous...as a young male slaveowner and William as his slave. The determination...to bear children into slavery. William noted that being separated from...toiled on until December 1848. William stated ... Read more
Creationism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...disagreement with the rest of contemporary science lies in its wholesale...Origin of Species in 1859. William Buckland in Oxford and Adam...Creationists, such as John William Dawson and George Frederick...Biblical texts developed by contemporary philologists and textual...Consequently, anything ... Read more
political parties
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...allegiances, even more completely than in contemporary England, lost their relevance. Instead...of the kind led by Alan Brodrick , William Conolly , the Ponsonbys and the Boyles...Nationalist Party (of northern ireland)). Challenges to these green and orange establishments... Read more
James Keir Hardie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Lanarkshire, the illegitimate son of Mary Keir, domestic, and William Aitken, miner. He took the name of his stepfather, David Hardie...party. Further Reading The earliest biography of Hardie is William Stewart, J. Keir Hardie (1921; new ed. 1925). It was followed... Read more
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...Tax law was enacted (1919), its justification resting upon contemporary precedents, notably Chief Justice Edward D. White's opinion...Johnston (1922), but, following his death, the new chief justice, William Howard Taft , massed the bench in Bailey to invalidate the... Read more
Rochester: Education and Research
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...increased academic achievement. Despite challenges such as high poverty rates and student...Dentistry, the School of Nursing, and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business...maintains a research library on the topic of contemporary imaging. The Rochester Civic Garden... Read more
Causality, Causes, and Causal Inference
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...changed. In nineteenth-century England, William Farr, John Snow, John Simon, and others...unlikely to be enough to meet rising challenges. Despite its core in population level...increasingly frequent, however. CAUSES For contemporary epidemiologists, what elements constitute... Read more
Furman v. Georgia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...violation of the Constitution. More specifically, Justice William O. Douglas concluded that death was disproportionately applied...social irrationality made it cruel and unusual. Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall both concluded that the death...directly, finding it excessive, unnecessary, and ... Read more

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Thornhill, Sir James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...of the Painted Hall (1707–14) at Greenwich Hospital (now Royal Naval College), London, the main scene of which shows William and Mary enthroned, and the grisaille paintings on the life of St Paul (1716–19) in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral... Read more
Fraternities and Sororities
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Winston, Roger B., Jr., William R. Nettles III, and John H. Opper, Jr., eds. Fraternities and Sororities on the Contemporary College Campus. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987. Lynn Dumenil / d. b... Read more
anarchism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...anarchism was the English rationalist William Godwin. During the nineteenth century...proletariat . The extent to which anarchism challenges other political philosophies on the...Anarchist influences are often evident in contemporary discussions of communes and communalism... Read more
FBI
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...confirmed because of the Watergate scandal ; he was succeeded by William Webster, who held the job until 1987. Subsequently, Director William Sessions was dismissed after allegations that he took financial...new Director. With the attacks, the FBI was faced with new challenges, of solving what happened ... Read more

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Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...the beginning of a sentence.” (William Morris and Mary Morris, Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage , 2d ed.; 1985.) · “...third-party candidates have mounted serious challenges for senator and governor in almost two... Read more

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The empty plinth: contemporary British artists appear unable to rise to the challenge of public sculpture, as the arguments over new sculptures for Trafalgar Square make all too obvious.(Architecture)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...front of the National Gallery would be William iv Square rather than being named after...the old Royal Mews combined with the contemporary street improvements being carried out...England's naval hero. The erection of William Railton's colossal and overscaled Corinthian...seriousness and significance. As ... Read more
Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, by KEVIN CHRISTIANO, WILLIAM SWATOS, JR., and...Kevin Christiano, William Swatos, Jr., and...encyclopedic treatment of contemporary developments in the...and ethnicity that challenges students to see the...religion takes in the ... Read more
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil; beyond Brasilia.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 136 words ; 9780813032818 Contemporary urbanism in Brazil; beyond Brasilia. Ed. by Vicente del Rio and William Siembieda. U. Press of Florida 2009 331...Following background on the birth and challenges of modern Brazilian urbanism, contributors... Read more
The Contemporary Quest for Jesus.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 4/1/2005; ; 552 words ; The Contemporary Quest for Jesus. By N. T. Wright. Minneapolis: Fortress...Wright discusses scholars' contributions to the contemporary search for Jesus (termed the third quest ) by analyzing...of such study hold challenge and promise for the contemporary church's theological task. In chapter 1 Wright ... Read more
Assemblies: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art.(art exhibitions)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art at Brandeis University...of visual and tactile elements by contemporary artists and the gathering together...unresolved contradictions of the contemporary moment. One component of the project...in turn, contemplate the general challenges of ... Read more
Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Environment; 10/1/2003; ; 385 words ; ...recent Niklas Luhmann, Theodor Adorno, and Jurgen Habermas; and contemporary writing on modernity and culture by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The promoters of this new paradigm, William R. Catton Jr. and Riley E. Dunlap, argue that the older schools... Read more
William L. Rowe on philosophy of religion; selected writings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 111 words ; 9780754655589 William L. Rowe on philosophy of religion; selected writings. Rowe, William L. Ed. by Nick Trakakis. Ashgate Publishing...443 pages $124.95 Hardcover Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion BL51 Rowe is best known for his philosophical challenges to theistic belief as his ... Read more
The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 621 words ; The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing. By JOHN B. PIERCE...Princeton University Press and the William Blake Trust), does more and less...Frye'sFearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton: Princeton University...art of Writing', in Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism, ed. by Morris ... Read more
The "unguarded expressions of the feelings of the negroes": gender, slave resistance, and William Wells Brown's Revisions of 'Clotel.'
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...three book-form editions of Clotel (1853, 1864, and 1867), William Wells Brown divided and differently partitioned his attention...active female trickery, a concept extraneous to dominant contemporary ideologies of true womanhood, as well.(1) The differences...between autobiographical and fictional authorship ... Read more
William Morris. The Earthly Paradise.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...illustrations. $275.00. THE PREMISE behind William Morris's mid-Victorian magnum opus...narrative structure. Florence Boos challenges this point of view by finding a series...is the current vice-president of the William Morris Society in the United States...some of which never made it into any ... Read more