(Encyclopedia) Comey, James Brien, Jr., 1960–, American law enforcement official, b. Yonkers, N.Y., grad. William and Mary, 1982, Univ. of Chicago Law School, 1985. He was assistant U.S. attorney for…
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(Encyclopedia) Farmer, James Leonard, Jr., 1920–99, African-American civil-rights leader who was one of the principal civil-rights figures of the 1950s and 60s, b. Marshall, Tex., grad. Wiley College…
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To see no other verdure than its own;
To feel no other breezes than are blown
Through…
Bright star! would I were sted...Four Seasons fill the measure ...The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft…
I cry your mercy-pity-love!-aye, love!O thou whose face hath felt th...If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd, If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,
And, like Andromeda,…
by JohnKeatsTo My Brother GeorgeTo George Felton Mathew Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;
Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to view
A…
William Jr. StanleyBorn: 1858Birthplace: Brooklyn, N.Y. Induction coil—Stanley designed a practical induction coil system that varied alternating current (AC) voltage. His coil became the prototype…
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