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Sir Clifford Sifton
Sir Clifford Sifton 1861-1929, Canadian political leader, b. Ontario. A lawyer in Manitoba, he sat (1888-96) in the provincial legislature and then served (1896-1911) in the Canadian House of Commons. As minister of the interior (1896-1905) in Wilfrid Laurier's cabinet he pursued a vigorous immigra...
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Michael Innes
Michael Innes pseud. of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, 1906-94, British writer and scholar, b. near Edinburgh. From 1969 to 1973 he was a reader in English literature at Oxford. Under his own name he wrote novels, short stories, and such critical studies as Character and Motive in Shakespeare ...
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heliotrope
heliotrope [Gr.,=sun-turning] or turnsole, name for any plant that turns to face the sun, especially members of the genus Heliotropium of the family Boraginaceae. The garden heliotrope is a valerian, and the winter heliotrope, or sweet coltsfoot, is a composite.
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Nippon
Nippon , name for Japan, derived from Dai Nippon, meaning Great Japan. The expression comes from the Chinese ideograph for the place where the sun comes from, or Land of the Rising Sun. The term Nipponism has come to imply an extreme Japanese nationalism.
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Michael Praetorius
Michael Praetorius , 1571-1621, German composer and musicographer, whose name originally was Schultheiss. He was a prolific composer, his Musae Sioniae (9 vol., 1605-11) alone containing 1,244 choral works. Now he is remembered chiefly for his Syntagma musicum (3 vol., 1615-19), which minutely d...
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David William Duncan Cameron
David William Duncan Cameron kăm´eren , 1966-, British politician, b. London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked for the Conservative party's research department beginning in 1988, became an adviser to two high-ranking government ministers, and headed corporate communications (1994-2...
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Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer parallel of latitude at 23°30′ north of the equator; it is the northern boundary of the tropics . This parallel marks the farthest point north at which the sun can be seen directly overhead at noon; north of the parallel the sun appears less than 90° from the souther...
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superior planet
superior planet Any planet whose orbit is farther from the Sun (and hence larger in radius) than that of the Earth, namely Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune....
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Michael Arlen
Michael Arlen 1895-1956, English novelist, b. Bulgaria as Dikran Kuyumjian. The son of Armenian parents, he was brought to England as a child. In 1922 he became a British subject and changed his name, and in 1928 he married Countess Atalanta Mercati. Arlen is best remembered for his fantastically s...
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Tommaso Campanella
Tommaso Campanella , 1568-1639, Italian Renaissance philosopher and writer. He entered the Dominican order at the age of 15, and although he was frequently in trouble with the authorities, he never left the church. Imprisoned in 1599 on the grounds that he was plotting against the Spanish rule of Na...
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