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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes), 1930-98, English poet, b. Mytholmyroyd, Yorkshire. Hughes's best poetry focuses on the unsentimental within nature. His poems are marked by controlled diction and style, which create a sense of order and meaning in violent or passionate natural events, often in the... Read more |
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Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin 1930-95, American writer, b. New York City. An offbeat fiction writer, Elkin had a gift for black comedy, fantastic imagery, bizarre situations, and a kind of lyrical bleakness, all expressed in ornately wrought language. He was essentially a moralist, and his works reveal a deep... Read more |
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Science museums
museums of science institutions or buildings where collections relevant to science and technology are preserved and displayed to promote education and research. While the preponderance of these museums are in North America and Europe, the chief cities of Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Latin... Read more |
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American Geographical Society
American Geographical Society (AGS), oldest geographical society in the United States, founded 1852 in New York City. Its purpose is to advance the science of geography through discussion and publication. The society maintains its collection in the library at the Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.... Read more |
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Thomas Wentworth
Wentworth, Thomas (1593–1641), created 1st earl of Strafford in 1640, and appointed lord deputy by Charles I in 1632. Wentworth aimed at restoring church and king at the expense of Old English recalcitrance and New English corruption by an active policy, nicknamed ‘thorough’,... Read more |
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Hogmanay
Hogmanay in Scotland, New Year's Eve, and the celebrations that take place at this time. Also, a gift of cake etc. demanded by children at Hogmanay. The word is recorded from the early 17th century, and perhaps comes from an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French aguillanneuf ‘last day of... Read more |
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Hopewell
HOPEWELL HOPEWELL is the name given to a distinctive, widely shared cultural expression flourishing between a.d. 1 and 400 among locally rooted societies from the Kansas City area to upstate New York, and from southern Ontario and northern Wisconsin to peninsular Florida. Hopewell has no single... Read more |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), nonprofit medical research organization founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes and largly funded from proceeds of the 1984-85 sale of Hughes Aircraft. Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., it is one of the world's largest and wealthiest philanthropies. HHMI supports... Read more |
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museums of science
museums of science institutions or buildings where collections relevant to science and technology are preserved and displayed to promote education and research. While the preponderance of these museums are in North America and Europe, the chief cities of Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Latin... Read more |
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