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Mavourneen
Mavourneen (1891), a play by George H. Jessop and Horace Townsend. [14th Street Theatre, 102 perf.] Terence Dwyer ( W. J. Scanlan) rescues his beloved Kate ( Grace Thorne) from abductors, only to have her mean sister, Lady Caroline Dwyer ( Helen Tracy), contrive to separate the pair and have... Read more |
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Caroline Affair
Caroline Affair In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in Upper Canada (now Ontario), demanding a more democratic government. There was much sympathy for their cause in the United States, and a small steamer, the Caroline, owned by U.S. citizens, carried men and supplies... Read more |
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 1812-70, English author, b. Portsmouth, one of the world's most popular, prolific, and skilled novelists. Early Life and Works The son of a naval clerk, Dickens spent his early childhood in London and in Chatham. When he was 12 his father was imprisoned for debt, and Charles was... Read more |
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G K Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton), 1874-1936, English author. Conservative, even reactionary, in his thinking, Chesterton was a convert (1922) to Roman Catholicism and its champion. He has been called the "prince of paradox" because his dogma is often hidden beneath a light,... Read more |
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Caroline Norton
Norton, Caroline (1808–77). Author and reformer. Caroline, a society beauty and granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, married at the age of 19 the Hon. George Norton, brother of Lord Grantley. Her husband, an unpleasant bully, brought an action in 1836 for crim. con. (adultery)... Read more |
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Christmas
Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks after Easter , Pentecost , and Epiphany (Jan. 6). The observance probably does not date earlier than AD 200... Read more |
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Mary Anning
Mary Anning Mary Anning (1799-1847) made several important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the first half of the nineteenth century, including a nearly complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur. Her findings were key to the development paleontology as a scientific discipline in Britain. ... Read more |
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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885-1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he... Read more |
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