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Biographies: 2015 People in the News

2015 People in the News See also 2014 People in the News 2013 People in the News 2012 People in the News 2011 People in the News 2010 People in the News 2009 People in…

Henry LAURENS, Congress, SC (1724-1792)

LAURENS, Henry, a Delegate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 6, 1724; received his early education in Charleston; went to England in 1744 to acquire a business education;…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Scene from 'Tasso'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines Written among the Euganean HillsSong for 'Tasso'Scene from 'Tasso' Composed, 1818. Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Maddalo, a courtier…

George Washington Biography

George WashingtonBorn: 2/22/1732Birthplace: Westmoreland County, Va. George Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732 (Feb. 11, 1731/2, old style) in Westmoreland County, Va. While in his teens,…

Wilde, Oscar

(Encyclopedia) Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lover's Tale

The Lover's Tale Sometimes I thought Camilla was no more, Some one had told me she was dead, and ask'd me If I would see her burial: then I seem'd To rise, and thro' the forest-shadow…

Brewer's: Bucca

A goblin of the wind, supposed by the ancient inhabitants of Cornwall to foretell shipwrecks. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Buccaneer'Bubble A B C D E…