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Earl F. Hilliard Earl F. Hilliard
Hilliard, Earl Frederick April 9, 1942 Congressman and lawyer Earl Hilliard, an activist in the modern civil rights movement in Alabama, was the first African American elected as representative to the U.S. Congress since the Reconstruction. Born in Birmingham to William and Iola Frazier... Read more
Ballistic Fingerprints Ballistic Fingerprints
Ballistic Fingerprints A ballistic fingerprint is the unique pattern of markings left by a specific firearm on ammunition it has discharged. Ballistic fingerprinting efficacy as a tool of forensics is a matter of some controversy. On the one hand, many lawenforcement... Read more
Nicholas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard 1537-1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first true miniaturist in England, Hilliard was self-taught. He painted meticulous linear portraits on card or vellum, even on the backs of... Read more
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System An important part of a forensic investigation is the identification of the victim or suspect. One of the most useful identification tools is the fingerprint pattern. An individual's fingerprint pattern is a unique identifier. This... Read more
Cyanoacrylates Cyanoacrylates
Fingerprint Fingerprints are the impressions that are left behind by tiny ridges in the skin on the tips of the fingers and on the palms of the hand. The patterns left by these ridges, which are called friction ridges, are unique to every person. They are determined by the time a fetus is about six... Read more
Isaac Oliver Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver , 1556?-1617, English miniature painter. Oliver was a worthy follower of Hilliard as miniature painter to Elizabeth's court. His work, more naturalistic than Hilliard's, is to be seen in the British and the Victoria and Albert museums, London, and in the Cleveland Museum. His son and... Read more
fingerprint fingerprint
fingerprint an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been found). Palm prints and footprints... Read more
Dermatoglyphics Dermatoglyphics
Dermatoglyphics Dermatoglyphics, a subdiscipline of palmistry that attempts to discern personality from the study of the epidermal ridges (especially the fingerprints) of the hand, grew out of the study of the papillary ridges on the hands and feet in the 1820s by Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, a... Read more
John Hoskins John Hoskins
Hoskins, John (b c.1590/5; bur. London, 22 Feb. 1665). The leading English portrait miniaturist between c.1620 and c.1640 (from the death of Hilliard to the emergence of Samuel Cooper, Hoskins's nephew and pupil). His early work is a development of Hilliard's style. Later he became a specialist... Read more
gem gem
gem commonly, a mineral or organic substance, cut and polished and used as an ornament. Gems also are used as seals (items of assurance) and as talismans (good-luck charms). For birthstones, see month . Properties of Gems The qualities sought in gems are beauty, rarity, and durability. The beauty... Read more

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