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Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather , 1663-1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1678; M.A., 1681); son of Increase Mather and grandson of Richard Mather and of John Cotton. He was ordained (1685) and became a colleague of his father at North Church, Boston, serving as pastor in his... Read more |
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Mark Lemon
Mark Lemon 1809-70, English editor and humorist. He was a founder of Punch in 1841 and one of its first editors. Besides contributing to periodicals, he wrote more than 60 plays, none of them memorable.... Read more |
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bistre
bistre. A transparent brown pigment derived from the soot of burned wood. The colour varies depending on the type of wood. It is often used as a wash for pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours. Claude and Rembrandt were among the artists who most memorably exploited its potentialities. See also... Read more |
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John Hales
John Hales 1584-1656, English clergyman and scholar, often alluded to as the Ever-Memorable. He won distinction by his lectures on Greek at Oxford, his preaching, and his writings. From 1613 to 1649 he held a fellowship at Eton College. As chaplain to Sir Dudley Carleton, he was an observer at the... Read more |
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Minnesota (river)
Minnesota river, 332 mi (534 km) long, rising in Big Stone Lake at the W boundary of Minnesota and flowing SE to Mankato, then NE to the Mississippi S of Minneapolis. Earlier called the St. Peter or St. Pierre, it was an important route of explorers and fur traders. The river follows the valley of... Read more |
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William Cartwright
William Cartwright 1611-43, English author and divine. An ardent royalist and disciple of Ben Jonson , he had a high reputation as a preacher and author. In addition to his poems, which are now almost entirely forgotten, Cartwright wrote plays, of which The Ordinary (1635?) and The Royal Slave ... Read more |
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Michael Field
Michael Field pseud. used by two English authors, Katherine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914, and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913, who collaborated on numerous literary works, including lyrics and poetic tragedies. Although their work was praised by such contemporaries as Robert Browning and... Read more |
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Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck , 1854-1921, German composer and teacher. He is known chiefly for his first opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893), successful because of its fairy-tale subject and its folk-inspired music. He wrote other operas and dramatic music which are mostly forgotten.... Read more |
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atomism
atomism philosophic concept of the nature of the universe, holding that the universe is composed of invisible, indestructible material particles. The theory was first advanced in the 5th cent. BC by Leucippus and was elaborated by Democritus. Epicurus restated the doctrine, giving the atoms weight.... Read more |
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Cryptomnesia
CRYPTOMNESIA Cryptomnesia is a memory that has been forgotten and then returns without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. In general, the memory returns in the form of an idea or intuition, but reappearances in the form of actions have also been... Read more |
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