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Roger of Wendover

(Encyclopedia)Roger of Wendover, d. c.1236, English chronicler, a monk of St. Albans. As historiographer of St. Albans, he began the Flores historiarum (see Matthew of Westminster), a general chronicle starting wit...

Kemble, Fanny

(Encyclopedia)Kemble, Fanny: see under Kemble, Roger. ...

Wood, Sarah

(Encyclopedia)Wood, Sarah: see under Kemble, Roger. ...

Williams, Daniel Hale

(Encyclopedia)Williams, Daniel Hale, 1858–1931, American surgeon, b. Hollidaysburg, Pa., M.D. Northwestern Univ., 1883. As surgeon of the South Side Dispensary in Chicago (1884–91), he became keenly aware of th...
 

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