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(Encyclopedia) Wilderness Road, principal avenue of westward migration for U.S. pioneers from c.1790 to 1840, blazed in 1775 by the American frontiersman Daniel Boone and an advance party of the…Baruch, in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) BaruchBaruchbər&oomacr;kˈ, bāˈr&oomacr;k [key], in the Bible. 1 Jeremiah's scribe, for whom the book of Baruch is named. 2 Builder of the wall. 3 Signer of the Covenant.Ernest Hemingway Biography
Ernest HemingwaynovelistBorn: 7/21/1899Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer considered spokesman of the “lost generation.” His works, which…Gray, Elisha
(Encyclopedia) Gray, Elisha, 1835–1901, American inventor, b. Barnesville, Ohio. He patented many electrical devices, most of them having to do with the telegraph. His telautograph (1888) for…telephone
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Hand telephone telephone, device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. The telephones now in general use evolved from…hooks, bell
(Encyclopedia) hooks, bell, 1952–2021, American author, poet, social critic, and Black feminist, b. Hopkinsville, Ky., as Gloria Jean Watkins, Stanford…John Donne: Expostulation XVII. Nunc lento
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, is this one of thy ways of drawing light out of darkness, to make him for whom this bell tolls, now in this dimness of his sight, to become a…Bell, Daniel
(Encyclopedia) Bell, Daniel, 1919–2011, American sociologist, b. New York City as Daniel Bolotsky, grad. City College (1939), Columbia (Ph.D., 1960). His immigrant parents changed their surname when…The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead
The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am deadAt Inde Mortuus Es, Sonitu Celeri, Pulsuque AgitatoMeditationJohn Donne THE bell rings out, the pulse thereof is changed; the tolling…jellyfish
(Encyclopedia) jellyfish, common name for the free-swimming stage (see polyp and medusa), of certain invertebrate animals of the phylum Cnidaria (the coelenterates). The body of a jellyfish is shaped…Trending
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