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Ulysses Simpson Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822-85, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and 18th President (1869-77) of the United States, b. Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant. Military Career Grant spent his youth in Georgetown, Ohio, was graduated from West Point in... Read more
Baucis Baucis
Baucis in a story told by Ovid, the wife of a good old countryman Philemon. They entertained the gods Zeus and Hermes as hospitably as their poverty allowed when the gods, who had visited the earth in disguise, were rejected by the rich. For this, the couple were saved from a flood which covered... Read more
Grant Fuhr Grant Fuhr
Grant Fuhr 1962— Hockey player, coach The Edmonton Oilers dominated the National Hockey League (NHL) throughout the 1980s, in no small part due to the goaltending talents of Grant Fuhr. Fuhr was an indispensable component of a team that won five Stanley Cups in seven years, a sometimes... Read more
Francis Russell 4th earl of Bedford Francis Russell 4th earl of Bedford
Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th earl of (1593–1641). Bedford hoped to resolve the political crisis of early 1641, since he was acceptable to Charles I as well as the parliamentary leaders. In concert with his client John Pym, a key figure in the Commons, he planned to accept office in the... Read more
predestination predestination
predestination in theology, doctrine that asserts that God predestines from eternity the salvation of certain souls. So-called double predestination, as in Calvinism , is the added assertion that God also foreordains certain souls to damnation. Predestination is posited on the basis of God's... Read more
balance of payments balance of payments
balance of payments balance between all payments out of a country within a given period and all payments into the country, an outgrowth of the mercantilist theory of balance of trade . Balance of payments includes all payments between a country and its trading partners and is made up of the... Read more
George Henry Thomas George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas 1816-70, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Southampton co., Va. He served in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. Later he taught at West Point and served in Texas. As a brigadier general of volunteers, he was sent to Kentucky, where he defeated the Confederates at... Read more
salvage salvage
salvage in maritime law, the compensation that the owner must pay for having his vessel or cargo saved from peril, such as shipwreck, fire, or capture by an enemy. Salvage is awarded only when the party making the rescue was under no legal obligation to do so. A claim for salvage ordinarily is... Read more
Robert Grant Aitkin Robert Grant Aitkin
Aitken, Robert Grant (b. Jackson, California, 31 December 1864; d. Berkeley, California, 29 October 1951) astronomy. During forty years at the Lick Observatory, Aitken was an outstanding observer of double stars, and his New General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 120 Read more

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