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Squanto
Squanto Squanto (1585?-1623) was the guide for many of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony. Squanto is remembered as the interpreter, guide, and agricultural advisor who shepherded the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth Colony through their precarious early existence in the New World and... Read more |
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Peter Brian Medawar
MEDAWAR, PETER BRIAN(b. Rio de Janeiro, 28 February 1915, d. London, 2 October 1987),immunology, transplant biology, medicine.Sir Peter Medawar is best remembered for developing the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, thus laying the foundation for successful organ and tissue... Read more |
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Cognitive development
Cognitive development Definition Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Description It was once believed that infants lacked the ability to think or form complex... Read more |
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Richard Alsop
Richard Alsop 1761-1815, American author, b. Middletown, Conn. Best remembered as one of the Connecticut Wits , he collaborated with Theodore Dwight and others in writing light satiric verse for the Political Greenhouse and the Echo.... Read more |
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Clodion
Clodion or Claude Michel , 1738-1814, French rococo sculptor. He executed several important commissions under Louis XVI but is best remembered for his bas-reliefs and small figure groups in bronze and terra-cotta representing fauns, nymphs, and children. He is represented in the Louvre and in... Read more |
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Sir Thomas Elyot
Sir Thomas Elyot , c.1490-1546, English author. He wrote the earliest Latin-English dictionary (1538) and is remembered especially for his sensible and well-written treatise on the education of statesmen, The Book Named the Governour (1531).... Read more |
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Govert Flinck
Govert Flinck , 1615-1660, Dutch painter. A student of Rembrandt, Flinck is remembered mainly for his numerous portraits. There is a large and representative collection of Flinck's works in the Rijks Museum, one example from which, his Blessing of Jacob, illustrates his competent handling of... Read more |
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Johann Georg Graevius
Johann Georg Graevius , 1632-1703, German antiquary. His German name was Gräve or Greffe. He was historiographer to William III of England and is remembered for his vast catalogs of Roman and Italian antiquities.... Read more |
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Johann Christian Gunther
Johann Christian Günther , 1695-1723, German lyric poet. The young Goethe was inspired by the naturalness and vigor of Günther's verse. Among his remembered poems is the drinking song "Brothers, Let's Be Merry."... Read more |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater , 1741-1801, Swiss theologian and mystic. He wrote several books on metaphysics, but he is chiefly remembered for his work on physiognomy, the art of determining character from facial characteristics.... Read more |
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Polar explorer Edgar Evans remembered.(News)
...Evans died a month after the expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the pole, only to find found Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. Scott wrote in his diary: "Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough... |
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Dick Barton and the case of the polar explorer frozen out by the BBC;...
...already made his mark as a polar explorer, professional broadcaster...had been awarded the Polar Medal in 1939 for his...customary to invite passing polar explorers to visit the ship...d have wished to be remembered not so ... |
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Dick Barton and the case of the polar explorer frozen out by the BBC.(Letters)
...already made his mark as a polar explorer, professional broadcaster...had been awarded the Polar Medal in 1939 for his...customary to invite passing polar explorers to visit the ship...d have wished to be remembered not so ... |
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Polar explorer Crozier was a loser in love.(Entertainment)
...the mystery behind the polar bear- encircled monument...expeditions, with legendary explorers such as Parry, Ross...contrast to many better-remembered contemporaries. Although...consider marrying a polar explorer. Smith ... |
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My journey to the bottom of the WORLD; VOYAGE: Plucky grandmother takes a...
...the forgotten hero of a Polar exploration has returned...Frank Wild, the only explorer to have undertaken five...mark the grave of fellow explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton...has been fascinated by polar history for years, but...that Frank should be ... |
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Kerry's polar explorer; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.(Features)
...Robert Forde from Cobh, but today it's Tom Crean who is best remembered. James Killian, Tralee, Co. Kerry. QUESTION How many...is not to be confused with a later King Ethelred, who is remembered as 'the Unready,' though both kings had to contend with... |
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Spacecraft reveals look at Mars' polar region
...cracked terrain in Mars' northern polar region believed to hold a reservoir...was received. "They will be remembered forever that they are the first...avoided the fate of another polar explorer, the Mars Polar Lander, which crashed into... |
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Amundsen's South Pole feat remembered 100 years on
...Norway (AP) — Polar adventurers, scientists...100th anniversary of explorer Roald Amundsen becoming...minus 40 C), the group remembered the Norwegian explorer...director of the Norwegian Polar Institute.Winther dropped...men will forever ... |
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25 years ago A Government agency was accused yesterday of... [Derived headline]
...Peary was examined by the Committee of the House of Representatives yesterday regarding his Polar explorations. It will be remembered that the explorer's record was questioned by certain members of the House, and that the proposal to advance... |
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Not like other explorers.("No More Beyond: The Life of Hubert Wilkins")(Book...
...like other great explorers, primarily because...involved in numerous polar expeditions, he...than just a polar explorer. In his long and...yet be so little remembered." According to...of veteran polar ... |
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