Old ManuscriptAlfred KreymborgThe sky
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary.
To read it all,
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom;…
Sir Alfred HitchcockdirectorBorn: 8/13/1899Birthplace: London, England British director famous for his dark, voyeuristic suspense films. He is best known for Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window…
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Alfred A. Knopfbook publisherBorn: 9/12/1892Birthplace: New York City A premier book publisher who paid as much attention to the typestyle and materials of the books he published as to the…
(Encyclopedia) Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: see under Nobel Prize; for a table of the winners of the prize, see Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in…
(Encyclopedia) Hershey, Alfred Day, 1908–1997, American microbiologist, b. Owosso, Mich., Ph.D., Michigan State College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1934. Hershey was a professor at the Washington…
(Encyclopedia) Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of AldwickCooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwickk&oomacr;ˈpər, k&oobreve;pˈər [key], 1890–1954, British statesman and…
(Encyclopedia) Kingsley, Charles, 1819–75, English author and clergyman. Ordained in 1842, he became vicar of Eversley in Hampshire in 1844. From 1848 to 1852 he published tracts advocating Christian…
CONKLING Alfred , a Representative from New York; born in Amagansett, N.Y., October 12, 1789;
was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar…
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