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George Leonard Carey George Leonard Carey
George Leonard Carey 1935-, archbishop of Canterbury (1991-2002). From a working-class background, he graduated from the London School of Divinity in 1962 and was ordained the same year. Carey was appointed bishop of Bath and Wells in 1987 and was enthroned as the 103d archbishop of Canterbury in... Read more
Rowan Douglas Williams Rowan Douglas Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams archbishop of Canterbury (2002-), b. Swansea, Wales; grad. Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1975), Wadham College, Oxford (D.Phil., 1975). Ordained a priest in 1978, he was a teacher, dean, and chaplain at Cambridge (1977-86) and a professor of theology at... Read more
Martha Carey Thomas Martha Carey Thomas
Martha Carey Thomas 1857-1935, American educator and feminist, b. Baltimore, grad. Cornell Univ., 1877, studied at Johns Hopkins Univ. and at Leipzig, the Sorbonne, and Zürich (Ph.D., 1882). In 1884 she was appointed to organize Bryn Mawr College for women, serving as dean and professor of... Read more
William Carey William Carey
William Carey 1761-1834, English Baptist missionary and Orientalist, one of the first Protestant missionaries to India. He helped found the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 and shortly thereafter went to India. Carey did most of the work in publishing the Bible in many Indian vernaculars. He... Read more
Henry Charles Carey Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey 1793-1879, American economist, b. Philadelphia; son of Mathew Carey . In 1835 he retired from publishing, where he had done notable work, to devote himself to economics. His Principles of Political Economy (3 vol., 1837-40) and Principles of Social Science (3 vol., 1858-59)... Read more
Invincibles Invincibles
Invincibles, an extremist society of Fenian background devoted to political assassination. The Dublin section, organized in November 1881 by James Carey, David Curley, James Mullett, and Edward McCaffrey, carried out the Phoenix Park murders, atrocities which provoked a very intensive... Read more
Carey Land Act Carey Land Act
Carey Land Act sponsored by Sen. Joseph M. Carey and passed by the U.S. Congress in 1894. The act provided for the transfer to Western states of U.S.-owned desert lands on the condition that they be irrigated. Settlers were permitted to buy up to 160 acres (64.7 hectares) of the land at 50¢... Read more
Mason Locke Weems Mason Locke Weems
Mason Locke Weems 1759-1825, American author and preacher, b. Anne Arundel co., Md., studied theology in London. He was ordained in 1784 and served various Episcopal parishes. For 30 years after 1794 he was a traveling agent for Mathew Carey, bookseller and publisher. Parson Weems is chiefly known... Read more
Henry Carey Henry Carey
Henry Carey 1687-1743, English author. After the first collection of his poems appeared in 1713, he turned to writing for the stage. Primarily a writer of farce comedy, his greatest success was Chrononhotonthologos (1734), a burlesque on theatrical bombast. He is best remembered, however, for his... Read more
Mariah Carey Mariah Carey
MARIAH CAREY Born: Long Island, New York, 27 March 1970 Genre: Pop, Disco, Rock Best-selling album since 1990: Music Box (1993) Hit songs since 1990: "Hero," "Dreamlover," "Fantasy" As one of the most successful artists of the 1990s, Mariah Carey has reached the same pop star status as other... Read more

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