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Joplin Joplin
Joplin jŏp´lĬn , city (1990 pop. 40,961), Jasper and Newton counties, SW Mo., at the edge of the Ozarks; settled c.1839, inc. 1873. It is a railroad center, the shipping and processing point of a grain and livestock region with dairy and fruit farms, and the industrial center of a... Read more
William Collins William Collins
William Collins 1721-59, English poet. He was one of the great lyricists of the 18th cent. While he was still at Oxford he published Persian Ecologues (1742), which was written when he was 17. Unstable and weak-willed, he never chose a profession and was constantly in debt until he inherited... Read more
Juan Martinez Montanes Juan Martinez Montanes
Montañés, Juan Martínez (bapt. Alcalá la Real, nr. Granada, 16 Mar. 1568; d Seville, 18 June 1649). The greatest Spanish sculptor of the 17th century, known as ‘el dios de la madera’ (the god of wood) because of his mastery as a carver. He was active mainly in... Read more
rood-screen rood-screen
rood-screen. Term in Christian church architecture for a screen separating the chancel (reserved to the clergy) from the nave (assigned to the laity). It is named after the Crucifixion figure or group, known as the rood (Old English for ‘cross’ or ‘crucifix’), that... Read more
Grinling Gibbons Grinling Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons 1648-1721, English wood carver and sculptor, b. Rotterdam. From the reign of Charles II to that of George I he was master wood carver to the crown. Sir Christopher Wren employed him for architectural decoration. Blenheim, Whitehall Palace, and the library of Trinity College,... Read more
Jonathan Carver Jonathan Carver
Jonathan Carver 1710-80, American explorer, b. Weymouth, Mass. He served in the French and Indian War and in 1766 was hired by Robert Rogers to undertake a journey to some of the Western tribes. He journeyed to the Mississippi and up that river to a point several days' journey above the present... Read more
Raymond Carver Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver 1938-88, American short-story writer, b. Clatskanie, Oreg. He was raised in the Pacific Northwest, where he often set his sparely written tales of everyday blue-collar life. His personal struggles with poverty and alcoholism also colored his work. Carver's stark, minimal narrative... Read more
John Carver John Carver
John Carver c.1576-1621, first governor of Plymouth Colony. A wealthy London merchant, in 1609 he emigrated to Holland, where he soon joined the Pilgrims at Leiden. His excellent character and his fortune, of which he gave liberally to the congregation, served to make him a leader. Carver, the... Read more
George Washington Carver George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver 1864?-1943, American agricultural chemist, b. Diamond, Mo., grad. Iowa State College (now Iowa State Univ.; B.S., 1894; M.A. 1896). Born a slave, he later, as a free man, earned his college degree. In 1896 he joined the staff of Tuskegee Institute as director of the... Read more
William Bradford William Bradford
William Bradford 1590-1657, governor of Plymouth Colony, b. Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. As a young man he joined the separatist congregation at Scrooby and in 1609 emigrated with others to Holland, where, at Leiden, he acquired a wide acquaintance with theological literature. Bradford came to... Read more

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