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Edmond Malone
Edmond Malone 1741-1812, English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar, b. Ireland. His studies (1778) in the chronology of Shakespeare's plays are still considered highly valuable. He was among the first to see through the supposed antiquity of the poems of Thomas Chatterton , and in 1796 he ...
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Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone , 1892-1986, American historian and editor, b. Coldwater, Miss. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1923 and was an instructor of history at Yale (1919-23) and associate professor (1923-26) and professor (1926-29) at the Univ. of Virginia. He was an editor of the Dictionary of American ...
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William Henry Ireland
William Henry Ireland 1777-1835, English forger of Shakespearean documents and manuscripts. Besides forging deeds and signatures relating to Shakespeare, Ireland fabricated two plays, Vortigern and Rowena (1796) and Henry II (both pub. 1799), as the works of Shakespeare. Edmond Malone , howeve...
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Joseph Ritson
Joseph Ritson 1752-1803, English antiquarian and scholar, b. Stockton-on-Tees. An industrious student of English literature, he attacked Thomas Warton's scholarship in Observations on Warton's History (1782) and disputed the originality of Bishop Percy's Reliques. He criticized Dr. Johnson, Geo...
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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (Alicia Christian Foster), 1962-, American actress, b. Los Angeles. A child model, she began acting in TV commercials at three, appeared on various TV shows, and made her screen debut in Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Her first important role was as the barely adolescent pros...
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Canton
Canton 1 City (1990 pop. 13,922), Fulton co., W central Ill., in the corn belt; inc. 1849. It is a trade and industrial center for a coal and farm area. 2 Town (1990 pop. 18,530), Norfolk co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston; settled 1630, inc. 1797. Rubber goods, textiles, plastics, and paper and ...
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Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper 1759-1839, American scientist, educator, and political philosopher, b. London, educated at Oxford. His important works include Political Essays (1799); the appendixes to the Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley (2 vol., 1806), in which he reviews Priestley's life and works at length; ...
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William Almon Wheeler
William Almon Wheeler 1819-87, American legislator, vice president of the United States (1877-81), b. Malone, N.Y. Admitted to the New York bar (1845), he was district attorney of Franklin co., N.Y. (1846-49), Whig member of the state assembly (1850-51), and a Republican member and president pro te...
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Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers (James Charles Rodgers), 1897-1933, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter often called "the father of country music," b. Meridian, Miss. The son of a railroad foreman, he left school at 14 and worked various railroad jobs, meanwhile learning the blues from his African-Americ...
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett , 1906-89, Anglo-French playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. He wrote primarily in French, frequently translating his works into English himself. His first published novel, Murphy (1938), typifies his late...
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