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Gibbs
Gibbs, (Oliver) Wolcott (b. New York, N.Y., 21 February 1822; d. Newport, Rhode Island, 9 December 1908) chemistry Gibbs Read more |
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William Coddington
William Coddington 1601-78, one of the founders of Rhode Island, probably b. Boston, England. He came to America in 1630 as an officer of the Massachusetts Bay Company and was its treasurer from 1634 to 1636. He supported Anne Hutchinson in the antinomian controversy. With her, John Clarke , and... Read more |
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Rhode Island (state)
Rhode Island smallest state in the United States, located in New England; bounded by Massachusetts (N and E), the Atlantic Ocean (S), and Connecticut (W). Its official name is the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Facts and Figures Area, 1,214 sq mi (3,144 sq km). Pop. (2000)... Read more |
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John Clarke
John Clarke 1609-76, one of the founders of Rhode Island, b. Westhorpe, Suffolk, England. He emigrated to Boston in 1637 and shortly thereafter joined Anne Hutchinson (with whom he had sided in the antinomian controversy) and William Coddington in founding (1638) Portsmouth on Aquidneck (Rhode... Read more |
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Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Respectability Jazz was traditionally a music too closely associated with sin and race to attract an establishment following. Born in southern whorehouses and bar-rooms and developed by black musicians with a reputation for intemperance and... Read more |
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Claus Von Bulow
Claus Von Bulow Trials: 1982 & 1985 Defendant: Claus Von BulowCrime Charged: Attempted murderChief Defense Lawyers: First trial: John Sheenan and Herold Price Fahringer; second trial: Thomas P. Puccio and John SheehanChief Prosecutors: First trial: Stephen Famiglietti and Susan McGuirl;... Read more |
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Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins 1707-85, colonial governor of Rhode Island and political leader in the American Revolution, b. Providence, R.I. A member of the colonial assembly for many years, he also served as assistant justice (1747-49) and chief justice (1751-55) of the superior court. Between 1755 and 1768 he... Read more |
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Robert Feke
Robert Feke , c.1705-c.1750, early American portrait painter, b. Oyster Bay, N.Y. He practiced in Newport, R.I., New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston. He probably studied in Europe for a time, but soon developed a very personal painting style. His best-known portrait of Isaac Royall and his... Read more |
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Hasbro Inc
Hasbro, Inc. 1027 Newport AvenuePawtucket, Rhode Island 02862-1059U.S.A.Telephone: (401) 431-TOYS (8697)Toll Free: (800) 255-5516Fax: (401) 431-8535Web site:http://www.hasbro.com Public Company Incorporated: 1926 as Hassenfeld Brothers Inc.Employees: 8,900Sales: $3.79 billion (2000)Stock... Read more |
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Narragansett Bay
NARRAGANSETT BAY NARRAGANSETT BAY. An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay was so named by English explorers after the Indians who lived on its western shore. The bay served as a primary artery of colonial maritime commerce. Trade and shipbuilding were the... Read more |
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Leisure
...the mid‐nineteenth century were farmers...and later nineteenth century affected...resorts such as Newport, Rhode Island; the Berkshires in western...century, offered islands ... |
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Mahan, Alfred T.
...Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1885. Over the following quarter century, he wrote some of the...the lines of late‐nineteenth‐century navalism, had the...and at Quogue on Long Island with his ... |
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Tourism
...Niagara Falls; Newport, Rhode Island; Cape May, New...locale in the late nineteenth century.Originally a pastime...democratized in the twentieth century. The automobile...Attractions in the Nineteenth ... |
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Bases, Military: Development of
...on Governors Island in New York Harbor...first half of the nineteenth century saw the establishment...in the twentieth century.When the U.S...1825, and Mare Island, San Francisco...significant facilities at Newport, ... |
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Education, Military
...United States since the mid‐nineteenth century. Its principal purpose is...the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island; the Army War College at Carlisle...the development in the late nineteenth century of ... |
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Military, The
...and for more than a century after the 1814 Treaty of...every American war.Nineteenth‐century America enjoyed a high level of security...Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1884 hastened the ... |
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James, William
...imbibing two major forces of nineteenth‐century intellectual life: the urge...and in 1860 the family moved to Newport, Rhode Island, so he could study with William Morris...dilemma of the early twentieth‐century middle ... |
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Rhode Island's rich and famous
NEWPORT, RH. - Newport, Rhode Island, is famous for its magnificent...finest families at the end of the nineteenth century. Many of them resemble renaissance...decided to spend her summers in Newport, the rest ... |
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Black music and musicians in the nineteenth century.
...nine-teenth century that composed...during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...music teacher Newport Gardner (African...prominent merchant of Newport, Rhode Island. In 1791 Gardner...was sung in both ... |
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TImes and tides: (includes related articles and two book reviews)(Cross...
The annual Newport Symposium is the world's most...the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island, acts as host. The alliance...mansions that housed the late nineteenth-century elite when Newport was by ... |
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The bannings on the Magic Isle Santa Catalina Island, 1892-1919.(Essay)
...romanticized a small island located a few...than half a century after the song...during the late nineteenth century, when the...Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, commodious...New York, ... |
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THE NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION: RECENT ACQUISITIONS
...Newport, Rhode Island. After his...Torpedo Station in Newport for eighteen...Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, published...editions of the Newport Recruit, World...in the late ... |
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BLACK AMERICANS AND THE STATE IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY GUATEMALA*
...assistant.2 In Newport, Rhode Island, a Guatemalan...Guatemalan nationals in Rhode Island complained...the turn of the century. In some respects...early-twentieth-century African Americans...decades of the ... |
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Jo;Wilbur (Joshua Wilbur)
...Newport, Rhode Island. Joshua...While at Newport, Joshua...built in Newport a Federal...success at Newport as both a...leave the Rhode Island seaport...streets of Newport. ... |
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"She said she did not know money": urban women and Atlantic markets in the...
...which by the early nineteenth century included an ideal...court records of Newport, Rhode Island, and Charleston...eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The courts of common...economic exchanges. In ... |
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The taming of Rogue Island.(Flashback: To know nothing of what happened...
...from Rhode Island run. Okay...the point: Rhode Island, or...drummer. The Rhode Islanders...according to one nineteenth-century historian...centralized power, Rhode Island ... |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
...rcn.com> EAIA-NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION...cooperation with the Newport Restoration Foundation...holding a meeting in Newport, Rhode Island, April 17. The NRF...eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ... |
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