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Anna Katherine Green
Anna Katherine Green 1846-1935, American detective-story writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vt., 1867. Of her many thrillers, characterized by logical construction and a knowledge of criminal law, The Leavenworth Case (1878) is the best known.... Read more |
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury , town (1991 pop. 6,751), Somerset, SW England. It has a leather industry, but Glastonbury is famous for its religious associations and many legends. One legend tells that St. Joseph of Arimathea founded the first Christian church in England there. On Wearyall Hill he rested his staff,... Read more |
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sainfoin
sainfoin [Fr.,=holy hay], leguminous perennial herb ( Onobrychis viciaefolia ) of the family Leguminosae ( pulse family) indigenous in S Europe and in temperate W Asia. Sainfoin has for centuries been widely cultivated in Europe as a forage crop. Although it was introduced into the United States... Read more |
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Asmodeus
Asmodeus , demon of Hebrew story. He plays an important role in the Book of Tobit.... Read more |
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Laban
Laban , in the Bible, father of Leah and Rachel and uncle of Jacob. The Nuzi tablets contain the stories of Laban and Jacob.... Read more |
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Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany, Jr. 1942– Science fiction and short story writer Read more |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , 1859-1930, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, b. Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he received a medical degree in 1881. In 1887 the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Doyle abandoned... Read more |
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Susan Bogert Warner
Susan Bogert Warner pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819-85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale of an orphan. Her other novels include Queechy (1852), The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856), and Melbourne... Read more |
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