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Joy Adamson Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson Joy Adamson (1910-1980) is best known for the books and films depicting her work in Africa with "Elsa the Lioness," introduced in her book Born Free. Together with husband George Adamson, she raised the orphaned Elsa from a cub and trained the lioness to fend for herself in the wild.... Read more
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John Fisher John Fisher
John Fisher (Saint John Fisher), c.1469-1535, English prelate, cardinal, bishop of Rochester (1504-34). Known for his scholarship at Cambridge, he was chosen confessor to Margaret Beaufort , mother of Henry VII. As vice chancellor of the university (1501-4) and chancellor thereafter, he helped... Read more
Essex Junto Essex Junto
ESSEX JUNTO ESSEX JUNTO is a term coined by President John Adams in the late eighteenth century for a group of Federalists he deemed his adversaries. Jeffersonians then used the term to refer to Federalist opponents they believed to be advocating secession for New England during the War of 1812.... Read more
Cunning Cunning
146. Cunning (See also Trickery.) Adler, Irene cleverly foiled Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia. [Br. Lit.: Doyle “A Scandal in Bohemia” in Sherlock Holmes ] Artful Dodger nickname for the sly pickpocket, John Dawkins. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist ] Asmodeus clever,... Read more
David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill 1802-70, and Robert Adamson, 1821-48, Scottish pioneer photographers. Hill was a painter of romantic Scottish landscapes. In 1843 he was commissioned to make a group portrait of the 470 clergymen who founded the Free Church of Scotland. He required an assistant to make the... Read more
Rudolph Fisher Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher 1897–1934 Writer, medical practitioner At a Glance… Became Associated with the Harlem Renaissance Became Medical Practitioner <... Read more
M F K Fisher M F K Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher (Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher), 1908-92, American culinary writer, b. Albion, Mich. Raised in California, Fisher lived in France for three years, where she was inspired by Brillat-Savarin 's philosophy of life and translated his The Physiology of Taste (1949). Her writings are... Read more

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