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Gordon Parks (Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks), 1912-2006, African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer, b. Fort Scott, Kans. Parks purchased his first camera in 1938 and became a photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1942. A largely self-taught trailblazer,... Read more
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Scriblerus Club Scriblerus Club
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Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696–1743), as vice-chamberlain exercised great influence over Queen Caroline. He was a close friend of Lady M. W. Montagu. He was satirized by Pope in various works from 1732 onwards, at first with mildness, as ‘Lord Fanny’, an idle... Read more
Henry Parry Liddon Henry Parry Liddon
Henry Parry Liddon 1829-90, English clergyman, a noted preacher and lecturer. As canon of St. Paul's Cathedral (1870-90) and Dean Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxford (1870-82), he exercised great influence, which he used chiefly for advancing the High Church movement in the Church of England.... Read more

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