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Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman 1791-1868, English clergyman, poet, and historian, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, from 1849. He was the author of several dramatic poems as well as some important historical works. His History of the Jews (1830) was the first work of English theology to subject the Bible... Read more |
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Saint George Jackson Mivart
MIVART, ST. GEORGE JACKSON (b. London, England, 30 November 1827; d. London, 1 April 1900) biology, natural history. Mivart was born of well-to-do parents who were members of the rising nonprofessional middle class. His father Read more |
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William Clark
William Clark 1770-1838, American explorer, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark expedition , b. Caroline co., Va.; brother of George Rogers Clark . He was an army officer (1792-96), serving in a number of engagements with Native Americans. In 1803 he was chosen by his friend Meriwether ... Read more |
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Social History
History, Social CRISES BIBLIOGRAPHY Social history emerged as a discipline over the course of about twenty years at the conjunction of two seemingly contradictory schools of historical writing: English social history and the French Annales school. Defined by George Macaulay Trevelyan... Read more |
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George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan 1876-1962, English historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Educated at Cambridge, he became professor of modern history there in 1927 and was master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. He was a master of the so-called literary school of historical writing, and his... 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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Esquire History of Henry Esmond The
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Grover Cleveland Alexander
Grover Cleveland Alexander 1887-1950, American baseball player, b. St. Paul, Nebr. One of the great right-handed pitchers in National League history, Alexander pitched 696 games and won 373 of them, compiling a .642 winning percentage. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1911-17 and again in... Read more |
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catastrophism
catastrophism , in geology, the doctrine that at intervals in the earth's history all living things have been destroyed by cataclysms (e.g., floods or earthquakes) and replaced by an entirely different population. During these cataclysms the features of the earth's surface, such as mountains and... Read more |
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