(Encyclopedia) Spellman, Francis Joseph, 1889–1967, American Roman Catholic cardinal, b. Whitman, Mass. Educated at Fordham and the American College at Rome, he was ordained May 14, 1916. He was a…
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Secretary of State William M. Evarts, 1877Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, 1877Secretary of War George W. McCrary, 1877Alexander Ramsey, 1879Attorney General Charles Devens,…
A lake of Thibet, famous for its gold sands. Bright are the waters of Sing-su-bay And the golden floods that thitherward stray. Thomas Moore: Paradise and the Peri. Source: Dictionary of…
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(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Eastman, 1824–1906, American portrait and genre painter, b. Lovell, Maine. He studied with a lithographer in Boston and later in Düsseldorf, then for almost four years at The…
The MacArthur Foundation awards monetary prizes each year in order to provide financial assistance for selected innovators.Susan Alcock, 39, associate professor of classical archaeology and…
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