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Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland , 1848-1901, American physicist, b. Honesdale, Pa., grad. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1870. He was professor of physics at Johns Hopkins from 1875. Rowland is known especially for his invention of a dividing engine for ruling diffraction gratings on curved surfaces and f...
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Eric Rowland Gill
Eric Rowland Gill 1882-1940, English sculptor, wood engraver, typographer, and writer. His sculpture includes Stations of the Cross (Westminster Cathedral, London); Prospero and Ariel (Broadcasting House, London); and the war memorial at the Univ. of Leeds. Gill illustrated many books for the G...
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David Rowland Francis
David Rowland Francis 1850-1927, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1896-97), b. Richmond, Ky. He established a large grain business in St. Louis, entered politics, and served (1885-89) as mayor in a reform administration and later (1889-93) as governor of Missouri. As a member of President Cleveland'...
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Sir Rowland Hill
Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879, English educator, inventor, and postal reformer. He introduced the system of self-government in his school at Hazelwood in Birmingham. In his Plans for the Government and Education of Boys in Large Numbers (1822) he argued that moral influence of the highest kind shoul...
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Haringey
Haringey , inner borough (1991 pop. 187,300) of Greater London, SE England. It is primarily residential. Within the borough, Tottenham has furniture, light engineering, children's clothing, and printing industries. Bruce Castle in Tottenham, built in the 16th cent., houses a postal museum in honor o...
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apocalypse
apocalypse [Gr.,=uncovering], genre represented in early Jewish and in Christian literature in which the secrets of the heavenly world or of the world to come are revealed by angelic mediation within a narrative framework. The genre seems to have arisen in Palestine in the 3d cent. BC, perhaps as a...
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William Charles Coles Claiborne
William Charles Coles Claiborne 1775-1817, governor of Louisiana, b. Sussex co., Va. He began law practice in Sullivan co., Tenn., and was appointed a judge of the state supreme court in 1796. As a Congressman (1797-1801) he supported Jefferson, and in 1801 the President made him governor of Missis...
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Baring
Baring , British family of bankers. Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810) founded (1763) the John and Francis Baring Company, which he renamed Baring Brothers and Company in 1806. At first the firm acted as import and export agents for others, but it soon became an independent merchant bank. Sir Francis, a...
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Calvinistic Methodist Church
Calvinistic Methodist Church Protestant Christian denomination, closely allied to Presbyterianism . It originated in Wales (1735-36) with the evangelistic preaching of Howell Harris, Daniel Rowlands, and others. In Wales it is considered to be the only denomination distinctly Welsh in origin, and ...
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Edwin Herbert Land
Edwin Herbert Land 1909-91, American inventor and photographic pioneer. While at Harvard, Land became interested in the properties and manipulation of polarized light. He left Harvard and, in 1932, created Polaroid J Sheet, a polarizing material that was inexpensive and easy to fabricate. In partne...
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