(Encyclopedia) Booth, William, 1829–1912, English religious leader, founder and first general of the Salvation Army, b. Nottingham. Originally a local preacher for the Wesleyan Methodists, he went (…
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(Encyclopedia) Booth, family prominent in the Salvation Army, founded by William Booth. His wife, Catherine Mumford Booth, 1829–90, whom he married in 1855, played a leading part in the foundation…
(Encyclopedia) hexameterhexameterhĕksămˈətər [key] [Gr.,=measure of six], in prosody, a line to be scanned in six feet (see versification). The most celebrated hexameter measure is dactylic, which…
THOMPSON Theo Ashton , a Representative from Louisiana;
born in Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, La., March 31, 1916;
attended the public schools and the Louisiana State University 1932-1934,…
(Encyclopedia) LafayetteLafayetteläˌfēĕtˈ, lăfˌēĕtˈ [key]. 1 City (1990 pop. 23,501), Contra Costa co., NW Calif., a residential suburb in the San Francisco–Oakland area; settled 1848, inc. 1968. The…
Through Sept. 26, 1999. World Cup matches are in bold type.Date Result USA Goals Site CrowdJan. 27PortugalW, 7-0Chastain, Lilly (3), Akers, Hamm, MacMillanOrlando, Fla.—Jan. 30PortugalW, 6-…
(Encyclopedia) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807–82, American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he…
(Benedict ). The most wealthy farmer of Grand Pré ( Nova Scotia), and father of Evangeline. When the inhabitants of his village were exiled, and he was about to embark, he died of a broken…
(1 syl.). According to American superstition, if a damsel finds a blood-red ear of maize, she will have a suitor before the year is over. “Even the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not…
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