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Ben Nicholson Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson 1894-1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson's geometric abstractions of landscapes and still lifes are discreetly colored and lyrically expressed. In works such as Relief (1939; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) Nicholson developed the purism of de Stijl ... Read more
James Nicholson James Nicholson
James Nicholson c.1736-1804, American naval officer, b. Chestertown, Md.; brother of Samuel Nicholson. During the American Revolution, Nicholson, appointed (1776) a captain in the Continental navy, was senior officer after the dismissal of Esek Hopkins in 1778. While awaiting the Virginia, his... Read more
Peter Lanyon Peter Lanyon
Lanyon, Peter (1918–1964). British painter, born at St Ives, Cornwall. He studied at Penzance School of Art in 1937, at the Euston Road Art School in 1938, and then under Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo at St Ives. From 1940 to 1946 he served in the RAF and from 1950 to 1957 taught at the Bath... Read more
Kevin Garnett Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett 1976- American basketball player In 1995, Kevin Garnett became famous as one of the first high school basketball players to be drafted directly into the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite many people's concerns about how a teenager would fare in that setting, Garnett did... Read more
Akiba ben Joseph Akiba ben Joseph
Akiba ben Joseph The Palestinian rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (ca. 50-ca. 135) was a founder of rabbinic Judaism. He developed a method of Hebrew scriptural interpretation. The early life of Akiba ben Joseph is enshrouded in legends, anecdotes, sayings, and numerous references in the Talmud. He... Read more
John Bartlett John Bartlett
John Bartlett 1820-1905, American compiler and publisher, b. Plymouth, Mass. While he worked in his university book store in Cambridge, he compiled the invaluable Familiar Quotations (1855), which ran through nine editions in his lifetime and has been revised and enlarged several times since.... Read more
Adrian Heath Adrian Heath
Heath, Adrian (1920–1992). British abstract painter, born in Burma. He studied at Newlyn School of Art under Stanhope Forbes in 1938 and in the following year went to the Slade School. In 1940 he joined the RAF and he was a prisoner of war in Germany, 1942–5; one of his fellow... Read more
Ira Sprague Bowen Ira Sprague Bowen
BOWEN, IRA SPRAGUE(b. Seneca Falls, New York, 21 December 1898; d. Hollywood, California, 6 February 1973)astronomy, physics.Bowen was the son of James H. Bowen, Wesleyan Methodist minister, who could trace his ancestry to Welsh settlers who had emigrated lo Massachusetts in 1643, and of Philinda... Read more
James McCune Smith James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American practice medicine in the United States. He is remembered for his successful work as a physician and for his scholarly writings against slavery. James McCune Smith was born in New York City on April 18, 1813, the... Read more
Alexander Cruden Alexander Cruden
Alexander Cruden , 1701-70, author of a famous biblical concordance, b. Aberdeen, Scotland. He spent most of his life near London. In 1737 he published his Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, which went through several editions and is the basis of later biblical concordances.... Read more

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