(Encyclopedia) Roget, Peter MarkRoget, Peter Markrōzhāˈ [key], 1779–1869, English physician and lexicographer. For 50 years while he practiced medicine and was secretary of the Royal Society (1827–49…
(Encyclopedia) Twain, Mark, pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature.…
FOLEY James Bradford , a Representative from Indiana;
born near Dover, Mason County, Ky., October 18, 1807;
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employed on a flatboat on the Mississippi River in 1823…
FOLEY Thomas Stephen , a Representative from Washington; born in Spokane, Wash., March 6,
1929; graduated from Gonzaga High School, Spokane, Wash., 1946; A.B.,
University of Washington, Seattle,…
(Encyclopedia) Saint Mark's Church, Venice, named after the tutelary saint of Venice. The original Romanesque basilical church, built in the 9th cent. as a shrine for the saint's bones, was destroyed…
(Encyclopedia) Tobey, Mark, 1890–1976, American painter, b. Centerville, Wis. An avid traveler, Tobey visited China and Japan in 1934. He then developed his celebrated “white writing,” in which he…
(Encyclopedia) Leyner, Mark, 1956–, American writer, b. Jersey City, N.J. His hyperliterate postmodernist short stories, collected in I Smell Esther Williams (1983), My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist…
FOLEY John Robert , a Representative from Maryland; born in Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minn.,
October 16, 1917; graduated from St. Felix High School, Wabasha, Minn., 1935; B.A., St.
Thomas…
(Encyclopedia) Baldwin, James Mark, 1861–1934, American psychologist, b. Columbia, S.C., grad. Princeton (B.A., 1884; Ph.D., 1889). He taught philosophy at the Univ. of Toronto (1889–93), psychology…
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