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Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl, 1872–1970, British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer, b. Trelleck, Wales. As with his philosophical stance, Russell's…

Russell, Charles Edward

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Charles Edward, 1860–1941, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa. He was a prominent newspaper editor (1894–1902) in New York and Chicago. A member of the Socialist party before…

Brewer's: Russel

A common name given to a fox, from its russet colour. Dann Russel, the fox, stert up at cones, And by the garget hente Chaunteclere And on his bak toward the wood him here. Chaucer: The…

Norton, Charles Eliot

(Encyclopedia) Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827–1908, American scholar and teacher, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1846. As professor of the history of art at Harvard (1875–98) and as a man of…

Rutherford, Joseph Franklin

(Encyclopedia) Rutherford, Joseph Franklin, 1869–1942, American sectarian leader, b. Missouri. He became leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Russellites) after the death of the sect's…

Jehovah's Witnesses

(Encyclopedia) Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian group originating in the United States at the end of the 19th cent., organized by Charles Taze Russell, whose doctrine centers on the Second Coming of…

Frege, Gottlob

(Encyclopedia) Frege, GottlobFrege, Gottlobgôtˈlōp frāˈgə [key], 1848–1925, German philosopher and mathematician. He was professor of mathematics (1879–1918) at the Univ. of Jena. Frege was one of…

Means, Russell

(Encyclopedia) Means, Russell, 1939–2012, Native American activist, b. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.Dak. An Oglala Sioux, he grew up near San Francisco, and attended four colleges but never…

Pope, John Russell

(Encyclopedia) Pope, John Russell, 1874–1937, American architect, b. New York City, studied at the College of the City of New York and the School of Mines, Columbia (Ph.B., 1894). He won a fellowship…

Charles Russell DAVIS, Congress, MN (1849-1930)

DAVIS Charles Russell , a Representative from Minnesota; born in Pittsfield, Pike County, Ill., September 17, 1849; moved with his father to Le Sueur County, Minn., in 1854; attended the public…