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Horace Austin Warner Tabor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Horace Austin Warner Tabor , 1830-99, American prospector, known as Silver Dollar Tabor, b. Holland...tremendous wealth by mining silver, and he spent money lavishly...Doe (1962); D. A. Smith, Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend...
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Blakey, Art
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Z. Jackson). One Blakey band featured ten percussionists out of 13 players in total. In 1954 Blakey began performing at the prestigious Birdland club in New York with a quintet that included pianist Horace Silver, saxophonist Lou Dona
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Leadville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...carbonates of lead with a high silver content again transformed Oro...had become one of the greatest silver camps in the world. In 1893, with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Act, silver mining collapsed...is epitomized in the life of Horace Tabor . Points of interest include...
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Cleveland, Grover
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Congress to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which...1894, he vetoed a compromise silver measure, led an inept attempt...Relations with Latin America ; Free Silver Movement ; Gilded Age ; Monetary...Statesman , 2 vols., 1923. Horace Samuel Merrill , Bourbon Leader...
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Pierre de Ronsard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and death: sonnets on Petrarch, odes after Pindar and Horace, elegies, eclogues, and songs. Of his love poems the...1924); biography by M. Bishop (1940); studies by I. Silver (1961 and 1971) and B. R. Leslie (1979).
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dentistry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...their teeth with cloth or sponges, and some even had gold or silver toothpicks. These were often hung round the owner's neck...Took laudanum .’ In 1844, an American dentist, Horace Wells, was the first person to experience tooth extraction...
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Nast, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Nast turned to immigration, political corruption, and free silver as ripe ground for his images. Moving from commentary to activism...his visual barrage of cartoons contributed to the defeat of Horace Greeley ’ s run against Ulysses S. Grant. By 1876...
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Mobility
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Destiny ” to settle the continent, Americans followed Horace Greeley's advice, “Go west, young man,”...settlers bound for Oregon and California . Discovery of gold and silver stimulated further mobility, most notably the 1849 California...
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Mark Twain
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...traveled to Nevada, where he speculated carelessly in timber and silver mining. He settled down to newspaper work in Virginia City...Holy Land, sending accounts to the California paper and to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. They were fresh and racy, alert...
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Latin literature
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Metamorphoses of Ovid , the Aeneid of Virgil , the lyrics of Horace , and the prose histories of Livy . The writings of Pliny (the Elder) marked the reign of Trajan . The so-called ‘Silver Age’ (ad 98–138) saw the tragedies...
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