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Defoe, Daniel
Defoe, Daniel (c.1660–1731). Prolific English writer. Educated at Charles Morton's dissenting academy, Defoe was pardoned for fighting for Monmouth, and gaoled for bankruptcy in 1692, before becoming William III's unofficial apologist in the best-selling True-Born Englishman (1701). Imprisoned and pilloried for seditious libel for his satire on high-church bigotry, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Defoe was recruited as a propagandist and intelligence agent by Robert Harley, writing the seminal propaganda journal the Review (1704–13), and reporting on the passage of the Act of Union (1707) through the Scottish Parliament. Re-employed by Harley in 1710, Defoe wrote government propaganda until 1714. Having finally made his peace with the Whigs, Defoe published Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first of the series of fictional autobiographies, including A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Moll Flanders (1722), and Roxana (1724), for which he has been confusingly labelled the first English novelist. Crucially significant as sources for early-18th-cent. British society, works like A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–6) have been intensively quarried by historians. Still hounded by creditors, Defoe, fittingly, died near his birthplace close by the real-life Grub Street.
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JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-DefoeDaniel.html JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-DefoeDaniel.html |
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Defoe, Daniel
Defoe, Daniel (c.1660–1731). Prolific English writer. Educated at a dissenting academy, Defoe was pardoned for fighting for Monmouth, and gaoled for bankruptcy in 1692, before becoming William III's unofficial apologist in the best‐selling True‐Born Englishman (1701). Imprisoned and pilloried for seditious libel for his satire on high‐church bigotry, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Defoe was recruited as a propagandist by Robert Harley. Having finally made his peace with the Whigs, Defoe published Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first of a series of fictional autobiographies, including A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Moll Flanders (1722), and Roxana (1724).
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JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-DefoeDaniel.html JOHN CANNON. "Defoe, Daniel." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-DefoeDaniel.html |
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , 1923–2008, American virologist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., grad. Univ. of Rochester; M.D. Harvard, 1945. He worked in the United States, Iran, Australia, and Pacific Islands studying infectious diseases, especially prion diseases and, in particular, kuru, a brain disease caused by prions and spread among the Fore people of New Guinea by ritual cannibalism. In 1958 he joined the National Institutes of Health, where he conducted research and headed (1970–97) the brain studies laboratory of the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke. In 1976 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruch S. Blumberg .
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"Daniel Carleton Gajdusek." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Daniel Carleton Gajdusek." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gajdusek.html "Daniel Carleton Gajdusek." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gajdusek.html |
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