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Poems in Honor of Spring

  A selection of verses to cheer the winter-weary soul Related Links The Vernal Equinox Poetry for the Seasons Quotations for Mother's Day Winter Quotations…

Adelaide Crapsey

Crapsey, Adelaide[1878-1914](3)Born in Brooklyn, Sept. 9, 1878. Her young girlhood was spent in Rochester, N.Y., where her father, Algernon S. Crapsey, was rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: To Christopher North

To Christopher North You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the…

Robert Raymond REID, Congress, GA (1789-1841)

REID Robert Raymond , a Representative from Georgia; born in Prince William Parish, Beaufort District, S.C., September 8, 1789; attended South Carolina College at Columbia; moved to Augusta, Ga…

Brewer's: Hertford

(Anglo-Saxon, heort-ford, the hart's ford). The arms of the city are “a hart couchant in water.” Hertford, invoked by Thomson in his Spring, was Frances Thynne, who married Algernon…

2002 Deaths: A - F

Jack Henry AbbottJohn AgarBob AkinStephen AmbroseWalter AnnenbergKenneth ArmitageBuck BakerNorman “Buddy” BakerJoaquín BalaguerDavid W. BarryAlice BauerMildred BensonDave BergMilton…

Brewer's: Leicester Square

(London). So called from a family mansion of the Sydneys, Earls of Leicester, which stood on the north-east side. “The Earl of Leicester, father of Algernon Sidney the patriot ... built…

Brewer's: Saccharissa

A name bestowed by Waller on Lady Dorothea Sidney, eldest daughter of the Earl of Leicester, for whose hand he was an unsuccessful suitor, for she married the Earl of Sunderland. “The Earl…

Brewer's: Sidney

(Algernon), called by Thomson, in his Summer, “The British Cassius,” because of his republican principles. Both disliked kings, not from their misrule, but from a dislike to monarehy.…

Scientists: Applied Sciences and Technology

Agriculturalists, computer scientists, electrical engineers, engineers, and inventors Related Links Computers and the Internet Inventions and Discoveries Inventors Hall of Fame…