Search

Search results

Displaying 391 - 400

Bermuda Hundred

(Encyclopedia) Bermuda Hundred, fishing village, on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers, SE Va., NE of Petersburg; founded 1613. During the Civil War the Union Army of…

Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of, 1563–1612, English statesman; son of William Cecil, Baron Burghley. He entered Parliament and came gradually to rank second only to his father as…

Roger of Loria

(Encyclopedia) Roger of Loria, c.1245–1304, Sicilian-Aragonese admiral. An adherent of Manfred, last Hohenstaufen king of Sicily, he left Sicily for Aragón after Manfred's defeat (1266) by the…

1 Samuel: 22

1 Samuel Chapter 22 1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one…

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

(Encyclopedia) Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'oĕng&oomacr;ˈgē wä tē-ŏngˈgō [key] or James Ngugi, 1938–, Kenyan writer, acclaimed as East Africa's foremost novelist. He studied at universities…

Dewey, John

(Encyclopedia) Dewey, John, 1859–1952, American philosopher and educator, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont, 1879, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1884. He taught at the universities of Minnesota (1888…

Wilder, Thornton Niven

(Encyclopedia) Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897–1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Yale (B.A., 1920), Princeton (M.A., 1925). He received most of his early education in China…

Selden, John

(Encyclopedia) Selden, John, 1584–1654, English jurist and scholar. He studied at Oxford, was called to the bar in 1612, and was elected to Parliament in 1623. He had already assisted in preparing…

Kensington and Chelsea

(Encyclopedia) Kensington and Chelsea, inner borough (1991 pop. 127,600) of Greater London, SE England. Kensington is largely residential with fashionable shopping streets and several luxurious…

Koch, Kenneth

(Encyclopedia) Koch, Kenneth (Kenneth Jay Koch)Koch, Kennethkōk [key], 1925–2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b. Cincinnati. After studying at Harvard and Columbia he was associated with…