EVANS Melvin Herbert , a Delegate from the Virgin Islands; born in Christiansted, St.
Croix, V.I., August 7, 1917; attended the public schools; B.S., Howard
University, Washington, D.C., 1940; M.D…
(Encyclopedia) Grafton, Richard, d. c.1572, London publisher and printer. In 1539 with Edward Whitchurch he printed the Great Bible in black letter (see type). He printed the first edition of the…
(Encyclopedia) King Horn, probably the earliest English-language romance, written c.1250 and containing about 1,500 lines. It is by an anonymous author and is based on an earlier work in French.…
(Encyclopedia) King's Lynn, town (1991 pop. 37,323), Norfolk, E England, on the Great Ouse River near its influx into The Wash, an inlet of the North Sea. Its large harbor serves foreign as well as…
(Encyclopedia) King, Henry, 1592–1669, English poet. He became bishop of Chichester in 1642. Elegies constitute nearly half his work, his most notable being “The Exequy,” written on the death of his…
Scene VA park near Middleham Castle In YorkshireEnter Gloucester, Hastings, and StanleyGloucesterNow, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,
Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,
Into…
(Encyclopedia) RuthvenRuthvenrĭvˈən, r&oomacr;thˈvən [key], Scottish noble family, believed to trace its ancestry to Thor, a Saxon or Dane, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I. The…
Scene IIIAnother part of the fieldFlourish. Enter King Edward IV in triumph; with Gloucester, Clarence, and the restKing Edward IVThus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are…
FRAZER Victor O. , a Delegate from Virgin Islands; born in Charlotte Amalie, St.
Thomas, V.I., May 24, 1943; graduated Charlotte Amalie High School; B.A., Fisk
University, 1964; J.D., Howard…
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