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George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) is best remembered for his work Man and Nature (1864), which was later revised as The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1874). Published one hundred years before the ecology movement of the 1960s, Marsh's theories recognized human impact on... Read more |
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William Henry Perkin
William Henry Perkin British chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838–1907) created the first synthetic dye (aniline purple, or mauveine) in 1856. Recognizing its commercial potential, he patented his discovery and set about manufacturing it. Perkin's continued research went on to find other... Read more |
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Sir William Henry Perkin
Sir William Henry Perkin 1838-1907, English chemist. In 1856 he discovered the first aniline dye (aniline purple, known as mauve and mauveine); by founding a factory to make it, Perkin established the aniline dye industry in England. He was knighted in 1906. His son, William Henry Perkin, Jr., ... Read more |
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environmentalism
environmentalism movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources , prevention of pollution , and control of land use . The philosophical foundations for environmentalism in the United States were established by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo... Read more |
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Anne Sullivan Macy
Anne Sullivan Macy 1866-1936, American educator, friend and teacher of Helen Keller , b. Feeding Hills, Mass. Placed in Tewksbury almshouse (1876), she was later admitted (1880) to Perkins Institution for the Blind, since her eyes had been seriously weakened by a childhood infection. Although a... Read more |
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Perkin Warbeck
Perkin Warbeck 1474?-1499, pretender to the English throne, b. Tournai. He lived in Flanders and later in Portugal and arrived in Ireland in the employ of a silk merchant in 1491. There adherents of the Yorkist party persuaded him to impersonate Richard, duke of York, the younger brother of Edward... Read more |
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Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips Record company executive For the Record… Sources There will always be debates as to who was the first rock and roller; Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, Bill Haley or Bo Diddley, etc., etc. But the “Father” of the genre will always be recognized as Sam Phillips, the... Read more |
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Covenant theology
Covenant Theology (Or Federal Theology), elaboration of the doctrines of Calvinism, which became as important in New England as the original teaching. Developed in the writings of the English Puritans William Perkins and William Ames, and in those of early New England ministers, the Covenant... Read more |
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Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe 1900-1938, American novelist, b. Asheville, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1920, M.A. Harvard, 1922. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe wrote four mammoth novels, which, while highly autobiographical, present a sweeping picture of American life. He was the... Read more |
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Equus
Equus (1974). Peter Shaffer's 1973 London success, centering on a psychiatrist and his young male patient who is obsessed with horses, was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and others at the Plymouth Theatre for a run of 1,209 performances. Anthony Hopkins was the original doctor and Peter Firth,... Read more |
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