Author:
Simon Winchester
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Prior to this book, I would have assumed that any history of lexicography would be pedantic, ponderous, dusty and…
(Encyclopedia) Brady, Mathew B., c.1823–96, American pioneer in photography, b. Warren co., N.Y. Brady learned the daguerreotype process from S. F. B. Morse and in 1844 opened his own photographic…
Senate Years of Service: 1833-1844
Party: Jacksonian; Democrat WRIGHT Silas, Jr. , a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Amherst, Mass., May 24, 1795; moved with his father to…
KLINE Ardolph Loges , a Representative from New York; born near Newton, Sussex County,
N.J., February 21, 1858; attended public schools in Newton, N.J., and Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.; moved…
Senate Years of Service: 1857-1875; 1879
Party: Republican; Republican CHANDLER Zachariah , (Nephew of John Chandler and Thomas Chandler, grandfather of Frederick Hale and great-great-granduncle of…
(Encyclopedia) body-marking, painting, tattooing, or scarification (cutting or burning) of the body for ritual, esthetic, medicinal, magic, or religious purposes. Evidence from prehistoric burials,…
(Encyclopedia) Wang MangWang Mangwäng mäng [key], 45 b.c.–a.d. 23, Chinese Han dynasty regent who usurped the throne and ruled (a.d. 8–23) as emperor of the Hsin [new] court, carrying out many…
by Ambrose Bierce SPOOKERSUCCESSSTORY -n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph…
(Encyclopedia) Ch'inCh'inchĭn [key], dynasty of China, which ruled from 221 b.c. to 206 b.c. The word China is derived from Ch'in, the first dynasty to unify the country by conquering the warring…
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