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Rawls, John Bordley

(Encyclopedia) Rawls, John Bordley, 1921–2002, American philosopher and political theorist, b. Baltimore, grad. Princeton (A.B., 1943; Ph.D., 1950). He taught at Princeton (1950–52), Cornell (1953–59…

Brewer's: Assassins

A band of Carmathians, collected by Hassan, subah of Nishapour, called the Old Man of the Mountains, because he made Mount Lebanon his stronghold. This band was the terror of the world for…

Brewer's: Mundungus

Bad tobacco. Mundungus, in Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768), is meant for Samnel Sharp, a surgeon, who published Letters from Italy. Tobias Sinollett, who published Travels through…

Brewer's: Read

or Read (Simon), alluded to by Ben Jonson in the Alchemist, i. 2, was Simon Read, of St. George's, Southwark, professor of physic. Rymer, in his Foedera, vol. xvi., says, “he was indicted…

The True George Washington: Friends: Children

ChildrenIn this connection it is worth glancing at Washington's relations with children, the more that it has been frequently asserted that he had no liking for them. As already shown, at…

Tobit: 2

Tobit Chapter 2 1 Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks,…

World Cup Preview: 2006

A third of the world will be tuned in from June 9 to July 9, 2006 by Chris Frantz Related Links World Cup Through the Years World Cup Winners All-Time World Cup LeadersAll-Time…

World Cup Preview: 2006

A third of the world will be tuned in from June 9 to July 9, 2006 by Chris Frantz Related Links World Cup Through the Years World Cup Winners All-Time World Cup LeadersAll-Time…