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Adelaide Crapsey
Crapsey, Adelaide (1878–1914), author of a slender volume, Verse (1915), written in the last year of her brief life. Of her fastidious poetry, the best‐known pieces are her cinquains, a stark metrical form of her own invention, resembling the Japanese haiku. The cinquain is a precise... Read more |
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Henry Hastings 3d earl of Huntingdon
Henry Hastings Huntingdon, 3d earl of 1535-95, English nobleman. Through his mother, Catherine Pole, a great granddaughter of the duke of Clarence (brother of Edward IV and Richard III), Hastings claimed the right to succeed Elizabeth I to the English throne. He received some support from the... Read more |
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren Maya Deren (1917-1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker, documentarian, author, and Voudoun priestess, to name a few. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades following her death. Deren was a... Read more |
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William James Perry
William James Perry 1927-, U.S. government official, b. Vandergrift, Pa. A Ph.D. in mathematics, former Stanford engineering professor, and founder of a military electronics firm, he served (1977-81) as defense undersecretary for research and development during the Carter administration. Appointed... Read more |
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Vijayanagar
Vijayanagar [Sanskrit,=city of victory], ruined city, SE India. It was the capital (14th-16th cent.) of the Hindu Vijayanagar empire, which embraced all India S of the Kistna River and shielded S India from the Muslim kingdoms of the north. At its height during the reign (c.1510-c.1530) of... Read more |
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Chichester
Chichester Roman The civitas-capital of the Reg(i)ni; its Roman name was Noviomagus. Lying within the area of the possible late Iron Age oppidum defined by the Chichester entrenchments, after a brief military occupation the Roman town developed early. This can be ascribed to the influence of the... Read more |
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Brief for Appellee
Brief for Appellee In the Supreme Court of the United StatesNo. 78–18, 1971 Term Jane Roe, John Doe, Mary Doe, and James Hubert Hallford, M.D. Appellants,vs.Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas Appellee. On Direct Appeal from the United States District Court for the... Read more |
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Brief
BRIEF A summary of the important points of a longer document. An abstract of a published judicial opinion prepared by a law student as part of an assignment in the case method study of law. A written document drawn up by an attorney for a party in a lawsuit or by a party himself or herself... Read more |
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Amicus Curiae
AMICUS CURIAE Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its... Read more |
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John Gay
John Gay 1685-1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple, Devon. Educated at the local grammar school, he was apprenticed to a silk mercer for a brief time before commencing his literary career in London. The first of his writings to have any real merit were the mock pastoral, The Shepherd's... Read more |
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Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North.(Brief article)(Book...
Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. Peter Leach and...published his survey on Yorkshire's historic West...sprawl of Leeds to the Yorkshire Dales, from hills...revised and expanded edition which, as always... |
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Independent Newspapers.(Digests)(Brief Article)
... Independent Newspapers has extended distribution of its compact edition to East Anglia, Yorkshire and the North-east this week. |
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Hunt is on for theft suspect ; IN BRIEF [Edition 2]
...near Southminster rail station on Tuesday, May 10, at around 10pm. A 49-year-old man, a Gurkha soldier from North Yorkshire, was at the station when he was approached and assaulted and his wallet was stolen. Anyone with any information... |
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North Yorkshire: Two in court over body in canal.
...the villages of Brayton and Burn. During a brief hearing, both men used interpreters to confirm their personal...report. * Click here to watch the latest edition of YEP TV. Click here for a full run down... |
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Randall's set to hit target again with autobiography
...from Rovers after turning down the North West Blues. He marked his bow in...the 1989-90 campaign. After a brief spell with Weymouth, Randall continued...is to be published by Vertical Editions, of Skipton, Yorkshire. |
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Blair preaches humility amid election apathy; SPECIAL EDITION.
...Downing Street soon after dawn, following a brief visit to Labour's Millbank. He was...half a dozen. Mr Hague, speaking in his Yorkshire constituency of Richmond, called the...some successes, not least in Essex and north-east London, where they captured Romford... |
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Swaledale; valley of the wild river. (reprint, 1998).(Brief article)(Book...
...offers this second edition of his 1998 archaeological...the many dales of the North Yorkshire Pennines. This work...the 18th century. This edition is full of color photographs...history. Distributed in North America by The David... |
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Business and City in brief
...Franz-Josef Kortum. Yorkshire gas stake Yorkshire Electricity has paid...Armada gas field in the North Sea, which is operated by Amerada Hess. Yorkshire, which will spend a...Training cost (First Edition) Lloyds Abbey Life... |
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NEWS briefs.
...which was published by North Light Books in 1999...is available in an edition size of 95, has a paper...Balmoral" and "Yorkshire," and has recently...refined art. A limited edition of 250 offset lithographs...Toon also has limited-edition ... |
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Confidential.(Briefs)
...electronics firms. Beware the Yorkshire Moors Although British...mysteries, England's North Yorkshire Moors are suddenly developing...filters as early as 1985 in North America. The 350 SDL...mother tongue. The 11th edition of the dictionary ... |
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