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Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-98, German naturalist and teacher. His Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1772-73) on zoology, ornithology, and ichthyology established him as one of the earliest authorities on North American zoology. Forster accompanied Capt. James Cook on his second... Read more |
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Chymotrypsinogen
chymotrypsinogen (ky-moh-trip-sin-ŏ-jin) n. see chymotrypsin.... Read more |
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Pierre Esprit Radisson
Pierre Esprit Radisson , c.1632-1710, French explorer and fur trader in North America. He arrived in Canada in 1651. His journals, first published as the Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson (1885), are confusing documents, often leaving great doubt as to the location of places and the time of events.... Read more |
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Martha Washington
The Role of First Lady: Martha Washington to Laura Bush Betty Boyd Caroli EVEN before the federal capital was permanently situated on the Potomac, the president's wife had become a public personage. Martha Washington arrived in New York City one month after her... Read more |
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851, English landscape painter, b. London. Turner was the foremost English romantic painter and the most original of English landscape artists; in watercolor he is unsurpassed. The son of a barber, he received almost no general education but at 14 was already a... Read more |
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David Pietersen de Vries
David Pietersen de Vries , b. c.1593, Dutch merchant captain and colonizer. An experienced mariner, Vries, in partnership with directors of the Dutch West India Company, founded (1631) a settlement (Swanendael) on Delaware Bay, later destroyed by warring Native Americans. After trading trips to... Read more |
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Dodsworth
Dodsworth, novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1929, was dramatized by Sidney Howard and the author (1934).Samuel Dodsworth, automobile manufacturer of the Midwestern city of Zenith, retires to devote himself to cultural pursuits and a trip to Europe. During 23 years of married life, he has... Read more |
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Portishead
Portishead Trip-hop band For the Record… Selected discography Sources The Bristol band Portishead has been credited with launching an entirely new genre in alternative musicȁ... Read more |
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey , 1774-1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a friendship with Coleridge and joined with him in a plan for an American utopia along the Susquehanna River that was never actualized. Southey married in... Read more |
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