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Exceptional Human Experience
Exceptional Human Experience (Journal) Semiannual journal founded and edited by Rhea A. White. Its central subject matter is exceptional human experience, which consists of experiences that begin as anomalous ones or anomalies of experience (first-time experiences) and when they become... Read more |
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Karl Spencer Lashley
LASHLEY, KARL SPENCER(b. Davis, West Virginia, 7 June 1890; d. Poitiers, France, 7 August 1958),psychology, neurophysiology. For the original article on Lashley see DSB, vol. 8.A major biographical treatment of Karl Lashley since the original DSB article is Nadine Weidman’s Constructing Scientific... Read more |
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Twenty-Second Amendment
TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT The Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some... Read more |
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Robert E. Chambers Jr
CHAMBERS, ROBERT(b. Peebles, Scotland, 10 July 1802;d. St. Andrews, Scotland, 17 March 1871), biology, geology, popular science. For the original article on Chambers see DSB, vol. 3.Chambers helped popularize science by writing for general interest publications—particularly Chambers’s Edinburgh... Read more |
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figure of speech
figure of speech intentional departure from straight-forward, literal use of language for the purpose of clarity, emphasis, or freshness of expression. See separate articles on antithesis ; apostrophe ; conceit ; hyperbole ; irony ; litotes ; metaphor ; metonymy ; paradox ; ... Read more |
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Confederation Congress 1781-1789
CONFEDERATION CONFEDERATION. The era 1781–1789 takes its name from the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the new United States, ratified by the Second Continental Congress on 1 March 1781. This decade has sometimes been described as an era in which America experienc... Read more |
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Orleans
Orléans , family name of two branches of the French royal line. The house of Valois-Orléans was founded by Louis, duc d' Orléans (see separate article), whose assassination (1407) caused the civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians . This house ascended the French throne... Read more |
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