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Daniel Harvey Hill
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David Dalrymple Hailes
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David Hartley
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David Hartley_2
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David Jayne Hill
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Dence Will Bibliography G E
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Diseases Of The Heart
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Diseases Of The Uterus
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Douglas Haig Haig
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Douglas Hailsham
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Ebenezer Henderson
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Edgar Von Haniel Von
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Edmond Herbert
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Edmund Gunter
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Edmund Gurney
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Edmund Halley
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Edouard Herriot
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Edward Craven Hawtrey
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Edward Everett Hale
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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
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Edward Hake
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Edward Hall
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Edward Hawke Hawke
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Edward Henry Harriman
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Edward Herbert Herbert Of
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Edwin Hatch
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Effect Upon Non Hellenic Peoples
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Effects Of Jewish Literary
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El Hasa
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Elias Hicks
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Elie Halevy
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Elie
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Eliza Haywood
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Elizabeth Hamilton
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Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
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Emil Christian Hansen
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Emma Hamilton
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Emmanuel Hiel
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Enrica Handel Mazzetti
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Entomology
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Epistle To The Hebrews
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Ernest Abraham Hart
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Ernest Hello
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Ernest Theodore Hamy
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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
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Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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Essential Discords And Rigid
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Eugen Gura
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Evelina Haverfield Balguy
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Ewald Friedrich Hertzberg
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Ewald Hering
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Farrer Herschell Herschell
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
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Ferdinand Hiller
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
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Ferencz Herczeg
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Fernando De Herrera
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Fertility And Heterostylism
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Fitz Greene Halleck
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Fitzedward Hall
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Francis Bret Harts
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Francis John Haverfield
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Francisco Herrera
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Francois Alphonse Hamelin
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Francois Hemsterhuis
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Frank Abney Hastings
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Frans Hals
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Franz Hauer
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Franz Ludwig Hatzfeldt
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Franz Xaver Haberl
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Frederic Harrison
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Frederick Henry Himmel
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Frederick William Harvey
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Hecker, Friedrich Franz Karl (181 German Revolutionary, Was Born At Eichtersheim In The Palatinate On Sept. 28, 1811, The Son Of A Revenue Official. On Entering The Second Chamber Of Baden In 1842, He At Once Began To Oppose The Government. A Speech, Denouncing The Projected Incorpora Tion Of Schleswig ...
Friedrich Gottlob Haase
Haase, Friedrich Gottlob German Classical Scholar, Was Born At Magdeburg On Jan. 4, 1808, And Died On Aug. 16, 1867, At Breslau, Where He Had Been Professor Since 1840. He Was One Of The Most Successful Teachers Of His Day. He Edited Several Classic Authors: Xenophon V 5833) ; Thucydides ...
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob German Pathologist And Anatomist, Was Born On July 9, 1809, At Furth, In Franconia. After Studying Medicine At Heidelberg And At Bonn, Where He Took His Doctor's Degree In 1832, He Became Prosector In Anatomy To Johannes Muller At Berlin. During The Six Years He Spent ...
Friedrich Haase
Haase, Friedrich (1827-1911), German Actor, Was Born On Nov. 1, 1827, In Berlin, The Son Of A Valet To King Fred Erick William Iv., Who Became His Godfather. He Made His First Appearance On The Stage In 1846 In Weimar, Afterwards Acting At Prague (1849-51) And Karlsruhe (1852-55). He Played ...
Friedrich Heinrich Von Der
Hagen, Friedrich Heinrich Von Der (178o 1856), German Philologist, Was Born At Schmiedeberg, Branden Burg, On Feb. 19, 1780, And Died At Berlin, Where He Was Pro Fessor Of German Literature, On June 1856. His Numerous Edi Tions Of Old German Poetry, Notably His Minnesinger (leipzig, 1838-56, 4 Vols. In ...
Friedrich Von Hagedorn
Hagedorn, Friedrich Von German Poet, Was Born On April 23, 1708, At Hamburg, Where His Father Was Danish Minister. He Was Educated At The Gymnasium Of Ham Burg, And At Jena. Returning To Hamburg In 1729, He Became Unpaid Private Secretary To The Danish Ambassador In London, Where He Lived ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Von Hacklander
Hacklander, Friedrich Wilhelm Von (1816-1877), German Novelist And Dramatist, Was Born At Burt Scheid Near Aix-la-chapelle On Nov. 1, 1816. A Short Period Of Service In The Prussian Army Resulted In His Bilder Ones Dem Soldatenleben Im Frieden (1841). After A Journey To The East, He Was Appointed Secretary To ...
Fritz Haber
Haber, Fritz (1868-1934), German Chemist, Was Born In Breslau On Dec. 9, 1868. He Studied At The Universities Of Berlin And Heidelberg And At The Technical High Schools At Char Lottenburg And Carlsruhe. He Was Then Appointed Staff Professor At Berlin University And Afterwards Became Director Of The Kaiser Wilhelm ...
Gaeriel Harvey
Harvey, Gaeriel (c. 1545-1630), English Writer, Eld Est Son Of A Ropemaker Of Saffron-walden, Essex, Was Born About He Matriculated At Christ's College, Cambridge, In 1566, And In 1570 Was Elected Fellow Of Pembroke Hall. Here Be Formed A Lasting Friendship With Edmund Spenser, And It Has Been Sug Gested ...
Geoffrey De Havilland
Havilland, Geoffrey De ), British Aeronautical Engineer, Was Born At Haslemere, And Educated At St. Edward's School, Oxford, And At The Crystal Palace School Of Engineers. He Learnt To Fly On His Own Ground At Haslemere, And Made His First Ascent In June 191o, In An Aeroplane Designed By Himself. ...
Georg Francis Hagerup
Hagerup, Georg Francis Norwegian Statesman And Jurist, Was Born At Horten On Jan. 22, 1853. Edu Cated At Oslo, Munich, Leipzig And Paris, He Began To Lecture On Law At Oslo In 1879. Hagerup, Who Belonged To The Party Of The Right, Was Minister Of Justice (1893-95) In Stang's Cabinet, ...
Georg Hermes
Hermes, Georg 7 7 5-1831), German Roman Catholic Theologian, Was Born On April 22, 1775, At Dreyerwalde, In West Phalia, And Was Educated At The Gymnasium And University Of Munster. He Was Ordained In 1799 And Two Years After The Pub Lication Of His L Ntersuchungen Fiber Die Innere Wahrheit ...