(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.…
LANDIS Frederick , a Representative from Indiana; born at Sevenmile, Butler County,
Ohio, August 18, 1872; moved with his parents to Logansport, Ind., in 1875;
attended the public schools; was…
(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…
LANDY James , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Northern Liberties
District, Philadelphia, Pa., October 13, 1813; attended the public schools;
studied law, but abandoned the same and…
LANDIS Charles Beary , a Representative from Indiana; born in Millville, Butler County,
Ohio, July 9, 1858; attended the public schools of Logansport, Ind., and was
graduated from Wabash College,…
LANDIS Gerald Wayne , a Representative from Indiana; born in Bloomfield, Greene County,
Ind., February 23, 1895; attended the public schools of Linton, Ind.; served as
a lieutenant in the Infantry…
(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…
