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(Encyclopedia) Davidson, John, 1857–1909, Scottish poet. After teaching in Scotland he went to London. There, struggling with poverty and illness, he wrote Fleet Street Eclogues (1893; Ser. 2, 1896), Ballads and S...

(Encyclopedia) John the Baptist, Saint, d. c.a.d. 28–a.d. 30, Jewish prophet, considered by Christians to be the forerunner of Jesus. He was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, who was also a kinswoman of Mary, th...

(Encyclopedia) Cobham, John Oldcastle, Lord: see Oldcastle, Sir John. ...

(Encyclopedia) Cornwell, David John Moore: see le Carré, John. ...

(Encyclopedia) John Carter Brown Library: see Brown, John Carter. ...

(Encyclopedia) Galbraith, John Kenneth gălˈbrāth [key], 1908–2006, American economist and public official, b. Ontario, Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.S., 1931), Univ. of California, Berkeley (M.S., 1933; Ph....

(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Frederick John Foakes-: see Foakes-Jackson, Frederick John. ...

(Encyclopedia) Smith, John, d. 1612, English nonconformist: see Smyth, John. ...

(Encyclopedia)  Who, The, English rock music group formed in 1964. The members were Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend, 1945–, Chiswick, London, U.K., guitar, ...

(Encyclopedia) Burgoyne, John bərgoinˈ [key], 1722–92, British general and playwright. In the Seven Years War, his victory over the Spanish in storming (1762) Valencia de Alcántara in Portugal made him the toas...