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Ozzie Smith
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Samuel Smith
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Donald Alexander Smith
Donald Alexander Smith Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914), was a Canadian politician, diplomat, philanthropist, and business leader with extensive interests in the fur trade, railroads, and banking. Donald A. Smith was born on Aug. 6, 1820, at Forres,... Read more |
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Reginald Smith Brindle
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W. H. Smith
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Emmitt Smith
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Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith (Margaret Florence Smith), 1902-71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher's office until 1953. Steadily gaining respect, Smith won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1969. Her poetry speaks with a fiercely comic... Read more |
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Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith or Edmund Kirby-Smith, 1824-93, American soldier, Confederate general in the Civil War, b. St. Augustine, Fla. A West Point graduate, he was cited for gallantry in the Mexican War. A major when he resigned from the U.S. army (Mar., 1861) to fight for the Confederacy, he... Read more |
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Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith 1897-1995, U.S. senator from Maine (1949-73), b. Skowhegan, Maine. She taught school briefly and then worked (1919-28) on the Skowhegan weekly newspaper. In 1930 she married Clyde Smith, the publisher of the paper, and upon his election as a U.S. representative served in... Read more |
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Smith, W. H., and Son, Ltd
Smith, W. H., and Son, Ltd, a firm...Grosvenor Street in 1792 by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. His son, William Henry Smith (1792–1865), gave the firm its...Past winners include P. White, L. Lee, Gombrich, and Heaney. |
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Smith, George
Smith, George (1824–1901), in 1846 became sole head of the firm of Smith & Elder, publishers and East India agents. Under his...authors now included R. Browning, M. Arnold, (Sir) L. Stephen, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. He was founder... |
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Literary Criticism
...of the British critic Sydney Smith, “Who reads an American book...including Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, and James Russell Lowell...Howells, Henry James, and Samuel L. Clemens called for serious adult...the journalist‐critic H.L. Mencken, along with new ... |
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Incidental Music
...such works as Bizet's music for Daudet's L'Arlésienne (1872) and Grieg's for Ibsen...for Maugham's East of Suez (1922), Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph (1926), and Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus (1931); Frederic Austin... |
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fantasy fiction
...exploits an imaginary mythology; Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), who created a series of imaginary...1950) borrows its far future setting from Smith; John Brunner (1934–95), Larry Niven (1938...and in the Incomplete Enchanter series of L. Sprague de Camp (1907– ) and ... |
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Opie, Mrs Amelia
...1769–1853), wife of John Opie the painter, and friend of Sydney Smith, Sheridan, and Mme de Staël. She was a copious novelist and poet, and was satirized by T. L. Peacock in Headlong Hall as Miss Poppyseed, ‘an indefatigable compounder... |
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Scots
...colloquy of rustic characters, in Sir W. Scott, Hogg, Galt, R. L. Stevenson and the ‘Kailyard School’. With the renaissance of...like MacDiarmid, Robert Maclellan (1907–85), S. G. Smith, Douglas Young (1913–73), Alexander Scott (1920... |
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Society for Pure English, the
...academics, formed in 1913, inspired by Bridges. Its original committee included H. Bradley, Sir W. Raleigh, and L. P. Smith. The name of the Society was somewhat misleading in that the founders had no objections to the entry of foreign words... |
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Dictionary of National Biography, The
Dictionary of National Biography, The, designed and published by George Smith, was begun in 1882 with Sir L. Stephen as editor. It included in its original form biographies of all national notabilities from earliest times to 1900. The... |
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horror
...literature has existed. M. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886...of horror/fantasy have included Joel Lane, Michael Marshall Smith, Mark Morris, Conrad Williams, Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler... |
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Margaret L. (Smith) Wickline
Margaret L. (Smith) -Wickline of Lancaster...John and Alice (Leonard) Smith. She was preceded in death...of Lancaster, and Sharon L., wife of Robert Hutton...addition to her husband, -Margaret was preceded in death by her... |
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MARGARET L. SMITH, 91.(CAPITAL REGION)
BENNINGTON, Vt. Margaret L. Smith, 91, formerly of Church Street in...s Academy, Hoosick Falls. Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and a member of the...178 Auxiliary, Hoosick Falls. Mrs. Smith was a communicant of the Immaculate... |
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OBIT - SMITH, MARGARET L.
Dr. Margaret L. Smith, dearly beloved daughter of Harland...26, 2004 in Charlottesville, Va. Margaret's survivors, brother Harland Little...blessed with cherished memories and love. Margaret not only touched the lives of friends... |
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FLORA M. BERRY * ISAAC T. BJORNSEN * WILLIAM E. CANDEE * BETTY JO GERDEMAN *...
...and enjoyed fishing and traveling. He is survived by his wife, Pat, at home; a daughter, Linda L. Hammontree of Battle Ground; a son, Douglas L. of Yakima; two sisters, Ruby Starkey of Vancouver and Virginia Novotny of Texarkana, Ark... |
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YVONNE A. DICK | HARDY E. WARD | EMMA N. BROOKS | SHIRLEY A. KRUMMEN | IRENE...
...sister, Mabel Jones of Aurora. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Gus Nadelhoffer and Alvie L. Brooks; three sisters; and two brothers. The funeral service will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, at... |
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MARTHA A.GAYLOR-MYNATT * DAVID K. GIBSON * LAWRENCE E. LOOS * JOHN H....
...Robert C., both of Vancouver, Roland L. of Camas, Larry R. of Newport, Ore...Chapel is in charge of arrangements. CAMAS Margaret M. McFarland, 92, who had been a licensed...worked in the shipyards, homemaker Ovillin L. Sanders, 94, died of congestive heart... |
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...Patricia A., 53, Valparaiso Monzulla, Margaret L., Crown Point Smith, Elizabeth S., Crown Point Tonetski...83, Crown Point Deaths elsewhere EDWIN L. MECHEM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Edwin L. Mechem, New Mexico's only four-term... |
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SENATOR MARGARET SMITH RESIGNS
...service, Illinois Sen. Margaret Smith (D-3rd) announced...support a woman to replace Margaret Smith as senator. My...Ward Committeeman Bobby L. Rush. Being both the...I ran before against Margaret Smith in ... |
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Tillman, Rush back Margaret Smith
Backing Illinois Sen. Margaret Smith (D-3rd), Ald. Dorothy...and U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-1st) Monday...wrong for running against Margaret, who along with me worked...Photograph (Sen. Margaret Smith) |
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Margaret L. Kronberger 1912-2009
Margaret L. Kronberger, 96, of Cheyenne...D., to Jesse and Maude Smith.Mrs. Kronberger was taught...Cheyenne; a brother, Veldron Smith of Edmonds, Wash.; a sister...her parents, Jesse and Maude Smith; brothers, Darrold Smith... |
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