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Robert Graves: When I'm Killed
When I'm KilledWhen I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'…Graves, Michael
(Encyclopedia) Graves, Michael, 1934–2015, American architect, b. Indianapolis, Ind., educated at the Univ. of Cincinnati and Harvard. He taught at Princeton from 1962 to 2002. Graves was a member of…Graves, William Sidney
(Encyclopedia) Graves, William Sidney, 1865–1940, American army officer, b. Hill co., Tex., grad. West Point, 1889. He served (1899–1901) in the Philippines and commanded (1918–20) American forces in…Graves, Thomas Graves, Baron
(Encyclopedia) Graves, Thomas Graves, Baron, 1725?–1802, British admiral. During the American Revolution his fleet was routed (1781) by the comte de Grasse at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, a defeat…Percy Bysshe Shelley: On Robert Emmet's Grave
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To IrelandThe Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812On Robert Emmet's Grave Published from the Esdaile manuscript book by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated 1812. ...…postmodernism
(Encyclopedia) postmodernism, term used to designate a multitude of trends—in the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and many other areas—that come after and deviate from the many 20th-cent.…Graves' disease
(Encyclopedia) Graves' disease: see thyroid gland.Hallstatt
(Encyclopedia) HallstattHallstatthälˈshtät [key], village, Upper Austria prov., W central Austria, in the Salzkammergut, on the Lake of Hallstatt. A tourist center, it is one of the oldest…Simcoe, John Graves
(Encyclopedia) Simcoe, John GravesSimcoe, John Gravessĭmˈkō [key], 1752–1806, British army officer, first governor of Upper Canada (Ontario). He served with the British in the American Revolution.…body snatching
(Encyclopedia) body snatching, the stealing of corpses from graves and morgues. Before cadavers were legally available for dissection and study by medical students, traffic in stolen bodies was…Trending
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