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Camden
Camden city (1990 pop. 87,492), seat of Camden co., W N.J., a port on the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia, settled 1681, inc. 1828. The opening of the Camden and Amboy RR to New York in 1834 spurred the city's growth as a commercial, shipbuilding, and manufacturing center. In 1858, Richard... Read more |
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Cumberland Market Group
Cumberland Market Group. A small group of painters formed in London towards the end of 1914, with Robert Bevan, Harold Gilman, and Charles Ginner as the core members; all three had belonged to the recently defunct Camden Town Group and were at this time members also of its successor, the London... Read more |
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Norfolk (England)
Norfolk was the fourth largest of the traditional counties. From Yarmouth in the east to Sutton bridge in the west is over 70 miles. The county is separated from Suffolk in the south by the rivers Waveney and Little Ouse, and from Cambridgeshire to the west by the river Nene. Much of the eastern... Read more |
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Malcolm Drummond
Drummond, Malcolm (1880–1945). British painter, born at Boyne Hill, Berkshire. He read history at Oxford University, 1899–1903, then studied at the Slade School, 1903–7, and under Sickert at Westminster School of Art. Like others in Sickert's circle he was a founder member of... Read more |
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Audubon
Audubon borough (1990 pop. 9,205), Camden co., SW N.J., a suburb of Camden; inc. 1905. Audubon is mostly residential. It was named after John James Audubon , the ornithologist, who studied the birds of the area in 1829.... Read more |
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Highgate
Highgate residential area within Camden, Islington, and Haringey boroughs, London, England. The house where Francis Bacon died is in Highgate, and Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, and Karl Marx are buried in Highgate cemetery in Camden. Highgate School, a public school founded in 1565, is there.... Read more |
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson 1767-1845, 7th President of the United States (1829-37), b. Waxhaw settlement on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina (both states claim him). Early Career A child of the backwoods, he was left an orphan at 14. His long military career began in 1781, when he fought... Read more |
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Harold Gilman
Gilman, Harold (1876–1919). British painter of interiors, portraits, and landscapes, born at Rode, Somerset, the son of a country parson. He became interested in art during a long convalescence after an accident and he had his main training at the Slade School, 1897–1901; his fellow... Read more |
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Robert Bevan
Bevan, Robert (1865–1925). British painter and lithographer, born in Hove, Sussex. He studied briefly at Westminster School of Art under Fred Brown (1888), then at the Académie Julian in Paris. During the 1890s he travelled a good deal (including visits to Spain and Tangier) and he had... Read more |
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Battle of Camden
CAMDEN, BATTLE OF CAMDEN, BATTLE OF, American Revolutionary battle taking place 16 August 1780. Following General Benjamin Lincoln's defeat and capture at Charleston, South Carolina, General Horatio Gates was given command of the American army in the southern department, consisting of 1,400... Read more |
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