My Husband and Captain Henry Kerley had gone to Boston to request that soldiers come to our aid as an Indian attack was possible. While they were gone on February 10, the garrison house in which my fam...

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Ronald Edward DeWolf (May 7, 1934 – September 16, 1991), born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr., also known as "Nibs" Hubbard, was the eldest child of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Hubbard's fir...

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Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary o...

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Charles Edward Bennett (December 2, 1910 – September 6, 2003) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1949 to 1993. He was a Democrat who resided in Jacksonville,...

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HOGG, THOMAS ELISHA (1842–1880). Thomas Elisha Hogg [pseud. Tom R. Burnett], lawyer, editor, and writer, son of Lucanda (McMath) and Joseph Lewis Hogg, was born in Cherokee County, Texas, on June 19,...

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) Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 8, 1925) was an American businessman and author. A highly controversial Boston stock promoter, he is known for both his efforts to promote reform...

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman and author, best remember...

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Mary Jobe Akeley was an explorer and naturalist and the wife of Carl E. Akeley. She is famous as one of the earliest women explorers in Africa where she helped her husband hunt and photograph animals...

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Delia Julia Akeley (1875 – 1970), commonly known by her nickname, Mickie, was an American explorer. She was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a daughter of Patrick and Margaret (Hanberry) Denning, Irish...

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Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, [fn1] was born on 17 June 1910 in Belgravia, Westminster, England and died 11 August 11, 2003 in Paris, France. Her remains are interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard in Oxfor...

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Nancy Freeman-Mitford , CBE, styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Rodd thereafter. She was born 28 November 1904 in Belgravia, Westminster, England and died 30 June 1973 o...

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Jessica Lucy Mitford , nicknamed Decca or Dec , writer and campaigner, was born in Burford, Oxfordshire on 11 September 1917 and died Oakland, California 23 July 1996. Parents: 7th and penultimate ch...

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Paul Almond, OC (born April 26, 1931 in Montréal, Québec) is one of Canada's preeminent film and television directors, and he has directed and produced over 130 television dramas for the CBC, BBC, ABC ...

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Links --------- Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States, Volume 7 edited by John Howard Brown. Page 370

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Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics. Burke became a highly distinguis...

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) William Goodell (October 17, 1829 – October 27, 1894) was an eminent American gynecologist from Philadelphia, best remembered for first describing what is now referred to as Goodell's sign. Bio...

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Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April 22, 1801 – November 2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign M...

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Murragh Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington (c.1645–1718) was an Irish peer and member of the House of Lords. from Murrough (or Murragh) Boyle was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of The Most Reverend...

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Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (16 March 1919, Chelsea, London–12 August 2001, Paris), was a British social anthropologist, ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries. P...

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John Pierpont (1785 - 1866), poet, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, was successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and lastly a Unitarian minister. His most famous poem is The Airs of Palestine. His soc...

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) Samuel Ward (1577–1640) was an English Puritan minister of Ipswich. Life He was born in Suffolk, son of John Ward, minister of Haverhill, by his wife Susan. Nathaniel Ward was his younger b...

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Nathaniel Ward (1578–October 1652) was a Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer in England and Massachusetts. He wrote the first constitution in North America in 1641. A son of John Ward, a noted Puri...

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Charles Cotton (28 April 1630 – 16 February 1687) was an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angle...

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Thomas Fuller, in a Life of Henry Smith which he prefixed to the first Collected Edition of his works, said of him: “He was commonly called the Silver-tongued preacher, and that was but one metal b...

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Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (Portland, Maine, 26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was an American author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the religious novel Stepping Heavenward...

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) John Mercer (February 6, 1704 – October 14, 1768) was a colonial American lawyer, land speculator, and author. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he came to Virginia in 1720 where he built the colonial e...

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Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH From Wikipedia (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted n...

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John Galsworthy OM (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter....

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Wiki: Herbert George "H.G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other gen...

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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of Art. Charles Altamont Do...

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary critic...

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Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot , was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers ...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one ...

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Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters,...

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical myt...

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"Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in gov...

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William Cobbett From Wikipedia (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolis...

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Dennis Hart Mahan (April 2, 1802 – September 16, 1871) was a noted American military theorist and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1824-1871. He was the father of Am...

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Daniel Defoe Born Daniel Foe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Defoe is widely considered as the father of the English novel. He wrote novels, pamphlets, and thousands of essays during his lifetime....

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John Evelyn From Wikipedia John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of th...

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Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862 – 3 January 1931) was a British-born novelist who became the first prolific, female fantasy writer in Canada. The daughter of the Royal Navy Captain John Moresby, M...

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Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was the author of Robert's Rules of Order, which became the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure and remains today the most common parli...

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John Heywood From Wikipedia: John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his famous epigrams, plays, poems, and collection of proverbs.[1][2] Although he is best known as a playw...

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English poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. John Donne was born in London, into a Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in ...

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Elizabeth Simcoe (September 22, 1762 – January 17, 1850) was an artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Biogr...

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Bernard Romans (bapt. 6 July 1741, Delft - 1784, at sea) was a Dutch-born American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer. His best known work, A Concis...

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During the American revolutionary war, John Fellows, Jr. (of Sheffield, Berkshire County, MA) fought in Capt Bacon's Company, Col John Fellows' Regiment, with the Mass line at sixteen years of age. He ...

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John Webster From Wikipedia (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of ...

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Benjamin "Ben" Jonson From Wikipedia (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his sati...

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Christopher Marlowe (baptised on 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day.[2] He...

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Marion Talbot (July 31, 1858 – October 20, 1948) was Dean of Women at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1925, and an influential leader in the higher education of women in the United States duri...

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Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo,...

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Letitia Baldrige (February 9, 1926 – October 29, 2012) was an American etiquette expert and public relations executive who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary. Kn...

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Albion Winegar Tourgée (May 2, 1838 – May 21, 1905) was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, judge, novelist, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citize...

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... Emily Hill Woodmansee (March 24, 1836 – October 18, 1906)[1] was a nineteenth century Mormon poet and hymnwriter. Although only one of her hymns "As Sisters In Zi...

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Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922) was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, includin...

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Joseph Dow is the author of the "History of Hampton," a monumental work on the early history and genealogy of Hampton, New Hampshire. "Let us pause each April 12th, and pay honor to the birthday of...

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George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. ...

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. William Richards Castle, Jr. (1878–1963) was an educator and diplomat. With great wealth from his family's Hawaiian holdings, he rose rapidly to the highest levels of the United States Department o...

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Ezra J. Poulsen was born and reared at Paris, Idaho, where he was graduated from Fielding Academy. He later filled an L.D.S. mission to the Southern States; and after receiving his degree from Brigham ...

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Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was a visionary American theatre director and drama critic, "one of the most influential in the United States". He was most notable as on...

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John Mason Brown (July 3, 1900 – March 16, 1969) was an American drama critic and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Eveni...

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Dionysius Lardner (3 April 1793 - 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopedia. Early life in Dublin His ...

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John Lyon (4 March 1803, Glasgow – 28 November 1889) was a 19th-century Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer. Born into a poor and illiterate family in Glasgow, Lyon became an apprentice we...

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Graduated from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA in 1897. During her collegiate course, she received the Highest 2d & 4th year Honors in the History of Radcliffe. Upon her Graduation in 1897 she receive...

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He wrote the famous poems: "Little Boy Blue" and the "Dutch Lullaby" (Wynken, Blynken, and Nod) ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---- Euge...

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Statue of Richard Colt Hoare in Salisbury Cathedral. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18...

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Edmondes, Clement, son to sir Thomas Edmondes, mentioned as the patron of the preceding sir Thomas, was born in Shropshire in 1566 and in 1585 became either clerk or chorister of All Souls’ college too...

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William Shakespeare passed away on his 52nd birthday, and the cause of his death remains a mystery. He died on April 23 (Julian calendar) which is May 4. Buried at Holy Trinity Churchyard. His wife Ann...

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Clare "Blossom" Elfman (née Bernstein) is an American novelist. Elfman was born in New York City. Adaptations of Elfman novels 'The Girls of Huntington House' was produced as a film and 'I Think I'...

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She is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is perhaps most famous for her book The Artist's Way (1992). She also has written many o...

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Moses B. Stuart (March 26, 1780–January 4, 1852, age 71), an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut. Life and career He was reared on a farm graduating with highest honour...

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Elizabeth Stuart, aside from Jacob Abbott, was one of the earliest writers of books for girls, publishing the four volume Kitty Brown series of books for girls, under the pen name H. Trusta, and other ...

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Austin Phelps (January 7, 1820—October 13, 1890), was an American Congregational minister and educator. He was for 10 years President of the Andover Theological Seminary and his writings became stand...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets....

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Herbert Dickinson Ward (June 29, 1861 – June 27, 1932) was an American author, born at Waltham, Massachusetts, son of William Hayes Ward. He graduated from Amherst College in 1884, and wrote extensiv...

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William Hayes Ward (June 25, 1835[1] - August 29, 1916) was an American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist, born at Abington, Mass. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1852, Amherst C...

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Alexandra Styron is the youngest daughter of writer and novelist William Styron (1925-2006). She is the author of the novels All The Finest Girls and Reading My Father: A Memoir. A graduate of Barnar...

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. William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967) was an American diplomat, journalist, and novelist. Although in his youth he was considered something of a radical, he later be...

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Ian L. McHarg ( November 20, 1920 - March 5, 2001 ) was born in Clydebank, Scotland and became a landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the found...

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This article is about Erasmus Darwin, who lived 1731–1802; for his descendants with the same name, see Erasmus Darwin (disambiguation). Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin in 1792 Born 12 December 1731(17...

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Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (1892-18 May 1983) was an Irish Jesuit historian. Life He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of the...

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Denis Roleston Gwynn (1893–1973) was an Irish journalist, writer and professor of modern Irish history. He served in World War I. He was the second son of Stephen Gwynn, writer and scholar. He wa...

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Stephen Lucius Gwynn (13 February 1864 – 11 June 1950) was an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant nationalist politician. and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons o...

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Major-General Sir Charles William Gwynn KCB, CMG, DSO, FRGS (4 November 1870 - 12 November 1962) was an Irish born British Army officer, geographer, explorer and author of works on military history a...

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Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850 – June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later ...

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Charles Adelle Lewis Totten (February 3, 1851 - April 12, 1908) was an American military officer, a professor of military tactics, a prolific writer, and an influential early advocate of British Isra...

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Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889) was an American academic, author and president of Yale College from 1846 through 1871. Biography Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York ...

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Everything you wanted to know about Jan Kerouac: you wanted to know about Jan Kerouac:

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Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957) was an American Professor of Law, judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate. Defending freedom of speech, he was described by Senator ...

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Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary ...

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Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (March 20, 1845 – March 10, 1888) was an American writer, historian, and expert on ancient art. Mitchell was one of the first Americans to write and publish a book on class...

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to th...

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John Henry Bartlett (March 15, 1869 – March 19, 1952) Descendant of Josiah Bartlett, signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Bartlett was an American teacher, high school principal, lawyer, aut...

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Mary Boykin Chesnut, born Mary Boykin Miller (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886), was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the th...

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Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree (September 26, 1897 – July 14, 1976), was an American-born British journalist, investor and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Harborough constituency in ...

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Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings (...

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Pauline de Rothschild (December 31, 1908 – March 8, 1976) was a writer, a fashion designer, and, with her second husband, a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry. She...

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