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Carroll Smalley PAGE, Congress, VT (1843-1925)
Senate Years of Service: 1908-1923 Party: Republican PAGE Carroll Smalley , a Senator from Vermont; born in Westfield, Orleans County, Vt., January 10, 1843; attended the common schools, People'…Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Author:Lewis HydePublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Professor-poet Lewis Hyde is one of those rare creatures able to wed a searching intelligence to rigorous research and convey his…Synge, John Millington
(Encyclopedia) Synge, John MillingtonSynge, John Millingtonsĭng [key], 1871–1909, Irish poet and dramatist, b. near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary…Law, John
(Encyclopedia) Law, John, 1671–1729, Scottish financier in France, b. Edinburgh. After killing a man in a duel (1694) he fled to Amsterdam, where he studied banking. Returning to Scotland (1700), he…Brewer's: Bessemer Iron
Pig-iron refined, and converted into steel or malleable iron by passing currents of air through the molten metal, according to a process discovered by Sir H. Bessemer, and patented in 1856…Brewer's: Bessus
A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BestBessie Bell and Mary…Anne, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
(Encyclopedia) Anne, 1665–1714, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–7), later queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1707–14), daughter of James II and Anne Hyde; successor to William III.…The Wright Brothers Centennial
A Century of Flight The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio Orville Wright, Major John F.…Brewer's: Jekyll
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two phases of one man, “the law of his members warring against the law of his mind.” Jekyll is the “would do good,” Hyde is “the evil that is present.” (…Grand Canyon
(Encyclopedia) Grand Canyon, great gorge of the Colorado River, one of the natural wonders of the world; c.1 mi (1.6 km) deep, from 4 to 18 mi (6.4–29 km) wide, and 217 mi (349 km) long, NW Ariz. The…Trending
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