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Byron Raymond White
Byron Raymond White 1917-2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-93), b. Fort Collins, Colo. An All-America football player nicknamed "Whizzer" who later starred as a professional, White was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the Univ. of Colorado, from which he graduated as... Read more |
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George Crabbe
George Crabbe 1754-1832, English poet, b. Aldeburgh, Suffolk. After practicing medicine for a short time, he went to London in 1780, hoping to earn money by his writing. He was befriended by Edmund Burke, whose generous assistance aided in the publication of The Library (1781). He took orders in... Read more |
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Book of life
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Eternal life
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Life Support
Life Support Definition Life support refers to a spectrum of techniques used to maintain life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Purpose A patient requires life support when one or more vital organs fail, due to causes such as trauma, infection, cancer, heart attack, or chronic... Read more |
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Quality of life
QUALITY OF LIFE Before the 1970s, quality of life received little attention in the medical or public health literature, but since then the situation has been reversed. Despite its widespread use, the term "quality of life" has different meanings to different people. For some researchers and... Read more |
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Ellen Gould Harmon White
Ellen Gould Harmon White When Ellen Gould Harmon White (1827-1915) was 17, she received a message from God in the form of a vision. It was the first of some 2,000 visions White experienced in her lifetime. The visions formed the basic teachings of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which White and... Read more |
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Gerard Groote
Groote, Geert, Gerard or Gerard the Great (1340–84), founder of the Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life. Born of a wealthy family in Deventer, he studied theology and law at Paris. After a somewhat worldly life, he spent three years in a Carthusian monastery, and became attracted by... Read more |
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Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn 1876-1953, American painter and magazine illustrator, b. Woodstown, N.J., studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Moving to New York City, Shinn created a series of murals for Stanford White that led to numerous commissions. He is best known for his street scenes and... Read more |
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