Karl Holl
Holl, Karl (1866-1926), German Church Historian, Born At Tubingen On May 15, Is Famous For His Work On Luther (vol. I. Of His Gesammelte Aufsiitze Zur Kirchengeschichte, 192i). This Book Is A Classic Work, Showing A Profound Knowledge Of The Period And A Remarkable Insight Into The Character Of Luther ...
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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Lake Huron
Huron, Lake, The Second Largest Of The Great Lakes Of North America, Is About 220 M. In Length, 101 M. In Width And Has A Maximum Measured Depth Of About 75o Feet. Bordering On It Are The State Of Michigan And The Province Of Ontario, Canada. The Area Of The ...
Las Or Jurdes Hurdes
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Laszlo Hunyadi
Hunyadi, Laszlo (1433-1457), Hungarian Statesman And Warrior, Was The Eldest Son Of Janos Hunyadi And Elizabeth Szilagyi. At A Very Early Age He Accompanied His Father In His Campaigns. After The Battle Of Kosovo (5448) He Was Left For A Time, As A Hostage For His Father, In The Hands ...
Laurence Housman
Housman, Laurence (1865— ), English Writer And Artist, Was Born On June 18, 1865. Having Studied At South Kensington, He First Made A Reputation As A Book Illustrator. Some Of His Best Pictorial Work May Be Seen In The Editions Of Mere Dith's Jump To Glory Jane (1892), The Weird ...
Law
Law. There Are Also Articles On The Most Important Towns, Leagues, Etc., Such As Achaean League, Regina, Athens, By ...
Lazare Hoche
Hoche, Lazare (1768-1797), French General, Was Born Near Versailles On June 24, 1768. He Enlisted In The Gardes F Ran Caises And Soon Obtained Promotion. When The Gardes F Rancaises Were Broken Up In 2789 He Served In Various Line Regiments Up To The Time Of His Receiving A Commission ...
Leland Ossian Howard
Howard, Leland Ossian (1857— ), American Entomologist, Was Born At Rockford (ill.) On June Ii, 1857. He Graduated From Cornell University, Becoming B.s. In 1877 And M.s. In 1883. After Serving As Assistant Entomologist At The United States Department Of Agriculture, Washington (d.c.), In 1878, He Was Made Chief Of ...
Leonhard Hutter
Hutter, Leonhard German Lutheran Theologian, Born At Nellingen, Near Ulm, Began To Lecture At Jena In 1594, And In 1j96 Became Professor Of Theology At Witten Berg, Where He Died On Oct. 23, 1616. Hutter Was A Champion Of Lutheran Orthodoxy, As Set Down In The Confessions And Em Bodied ...
Letters Of Horning
Horning, Letters Of, A Term In Scots Law. For Merly All Decrees Of Court For Payment Of Money Might Be Put In Execution By Letters Issuing From The King's Signet. These Signet Letters Were Called Letters Of Horning Or Letters Of Four Forms. Under Them The Debtor Was Charged Four ...
Liberal Party Labour Party
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Lord William Howard
Howard, Lord William Known As "belted Or Bauld (bold) Will," 3rd Son Of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke Of Norfolk (executed In 1572), And Of His Second Wife Mar Garet Audley, Was Born At Audley End In Essex On Dec. 19, 1563. In 1577 He Married Elizabeth, Daughter Of Thomas, Lord ...
Lucas Holstenius
Holstenius, Lucas, The Latinized Name Of Luc Holste (1596-1661), German Humanist, Geographer And Theological Writer, Was Born At Hamburg. He Studied At Leyden University, Where He Became Intimate With The Most Famous Scholars Of The Age-j. Meursius, D. Heinsius And P. Cluverius, Whom He Accom Panied On Travels In Italy ...
Ludvig Holberg Holberg
Holberg, Ludvig Holberg, Baron Scandinavian Writer, Was Born At Bergen, Norway, On Dec. 3, 1684. He Was Early Left An Orphan, And Though His Early Education Was Provided By Relatives, Had A Hard Struggle At The University Of Copenhagen, Supporting Himself By Occasional Tutorships. In 1704 He Set Out On ...
Ludwig Aloysius Hohenlohe Waldenburg B A
Hohenlohe-waldenburg-b A R T E N S T E I N, Ludwig Aloysius, Prince Of (1765-1829) , Marshal And Peer Of France, Was Born On Aug. 18, 1765. In 1784 He Entered The Service Of The Palatinate, Which He Quitted In 1792 In Order To Take The Command Of A ...
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber
Huber, Ludwig Ferdinand (1764-1804), German Publicist, Was Born In Paris On Sept. 14, I 764, And Was Brought Up In Leipzig, Where He Became Closely Associated With Korner, To Whose Sister-in-law, Dora Stock, He Became Betrothed. From 1787 To 1792 He Was Secretary To The Saxon Legation At Mainz, But ...
Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty
Holty, Ludwig Heinrich Christoph (1748 1776), German Poet, Was Born On Dec. 21, 1748, At The Village Of Mariensee, Hanover, Where His Father Was Pastor. In 1769 He Went To Study Theology At Gottingen. Here He Formed A Close Friendship With J. M. Miller, J. H. Voss, H. Boie, The ...
Malvina Hoffman
Hoffman, Malvina (1887— ), American Sculptor, Was Born In New York City On June 15, 1887. She Studied Sculp Ture In New York With Herbert Adams And Gutzon Borglum, And In Paris With Auguste Rodin. After Obtaining Recognition In Paris, Where She Was Awarded A First Prize At The Salon ...
Matic Trade Routes
Matic ; Trade Routes. The History Of The Church Will Be Found Under Papacy; Church ...
Maurice De Hirsch
Hirsch, Maurice De, Baron Hirsch Auf Gereuth, In The Baronage Of Bavaria (1831-1896), German Capitalist And Philanthropist, Was Born At Munich On Dec. 9, 1831, The Grand Son Of Baron Jakob Von Hirsch, Who Founded The Family Fortune. He Attended School At Brussels, But When 17 Went Into Business. In ...
Max Hoffmann
Hoffmann, Max (1869-1927), German General, Was Born At Homburg On Jan. 25, 1869. He Spent Many Years In Russia, And Was Sometime General Staff Officer In The Provinces Of Posen And East Prussia. In 1914 He Was General Staff Officer To The Viii. Army, Was Present At Tannenberg, Became Quarter ...
Max Huber
Huber, Max (1874– ), Swiss Lawyer, Was Born On Dec. 28, 1874, At Zurich. From 1902 To 1921 He Held A Law Professor Ship—first Extraordinary And Subsequently Ordinary—at The Uni Versity Of Zurich. In 1921 He Resigned His Chair And Became Honorary Professor. The Swiss Federal Council On Many Occa ...
Melchior D Hondecoeter
Hondecoeter, Melchior D' Dutch Painter, Born At Utrecht, Was The Pupil Of His Father Gysbert And Of His Uncle J. B. Weenix. He Lived At The Hague (1659-63) And At Amsterdam Where He Married In 1663 And Lived Till His Death On April 3, 1695. One Of His Earliest Works ...
Melchior Hofmann Or Hoffmann
Hofmann Or Hoffmann, Melchior (c. 1498 ' 543/4), Anabaptist, Was Born At Hall, In Swabia. He Was A Furrier Of Livonia, And With Others Travelled To Sweden, Preaching As He Went. Fervid Attacks On Image Worship Led To Expulsion, And Hofmann Thereafter Went From Place To Place In The Baltic ...
Meningitis
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Meyndert Hobbema
Hobbema, Meyndert (1638-1709), Dutch Land Scape Painter, Was Born At Amsterdam In 1638 And Lived There All His Life. He Was A Friend, And Probably The Pupil, Of Jacob Van Ruisdael. The Two Artists Made Sketching Tours Together And Often Painted The Same Views. Thus Ruisdael's "water Mill" At Amsterdam, ...
Moritz Hornes
Hornes, Moritz (1815-1868), Austrian Palaeontologist, Born On July 14, 1815, At Vienna, Where He Was Educated. He Became Assistant In The Vienna Mineralogical Museum. He Studied The Tertiary Mollusca Of The Vienna Basin And On The Triassic Mollusca Of Alpine Regions. He Died In Vienna On Nov. 4, 1868. His ...
Motion Of Fluids
Motion Of Fluids The Motion Of A Fluid May Be Of Two Kinds, Viz., Stream Line And Turbulent. In Stream Line Motion The Filaments Move In Definite Paths And The Resistance To Flow Is Due Purely To The Shear Of Adjacent Layers And Is Directly Proportional To The Viscosity And ...
Mount Hood
Hood, Mount, A Peak Of The Cascade Range In Clackamas And Hood River Counties, Oregon, About 5o M. E. Of Portland. It Is An Extinct Volcanic Cone Of Great Symmetrical Beauty Rising To A Height Of 11,253 Ft. Above Sea-level, The Highest Point In The State. The Peak Was Built ...
Mount Hor
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Nathaniel Hone
Hone, Nathaniel (1718-1784), Irish Painter, Was Born In Dublin, But Spent The Greater Part Of His Life In London, Where He Died On Aug. 14, 1784. He Was A Foundation Member Of The Royal Academy, And Exhibited Portraits There Regularly. Among His Best Works Are The Portrait Of Himself In ...
Nicholas Horthy De Nagybanya
Horthy De Nagybanya, Nicholas (1868 ), Hungarian Admiral And Regent, Was Born June 18, 1868 At Kenderes, In The Family Mansion In The County Of Szolnok (east Ern Hungary). His Family Belonged To The Landed Gentry, And From 1635 Ranked Amongst The Nobility. After Studying At The Naval Academy At ...
Nicolas Ursu Horea
Horea, Nicolas Ursu, Rumanian Patriot (1735?– 85), Was Born In Zlatna, Transylvania, Of -well-to-do Peasant Stock And Early Appeared As Champion Of His Nation (then Serfs) Against The Dominant Magyars. He Won Renown As A Notable Agitator (famosus Seductor) And Paid Three Visits In This Capacity To Vienna, Where He ...
Nishes
Nishes.) The Fireplace And The Stairs Are Two Points Where Beauti Ful Woodwork May Be Used In Ways That Count. A Good Cornice In One Room Counts More Than Meaningless Strips Arranged Around The Walls Of All The Rooms. Mouldings When Applied To Walls Have Value Principally For The Variations ...
Norwich
Norwich, Urban District, Westhoughton Parliamentary Di Vision, Lancashire, England, 18 M. N.w. Of Manchester By L.m.s. Railway. Pop. (1931) 15,680. Rivington Reservoir Of Liverpool Corporation Is Near. It Has Important Locomotive Works For The L.m.s. Railway As Well As Large Stone Quarries. Other Industries Are Cotton Spinning, Bleaching And Finishing ...
Oliver Otis Howard
Howard, Oliver Otis (183o-1909), American Sol Dier, Was Born In Leeds, Me., On Nov. 8, 1830. He Graduated At Bowdoin College In 1850, And At The U.s. Military Academy In 1854. At The Beginning Of The Civil War He Resigned To Become Colonel Of A Maine Volunteer Regiment, And At ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell American Writer And Physician, Was Born Aug. 29, 1809, At Cambridge (mass.), One Of The "brahmin Caste Of New England." From Phillips (andover) Academy He Entered Harvard In The "famous Class Of '29," Made Further Illustrious By The Charming Lyrics Which He Wrote For The Anniversary Dinners ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes_2
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Or Honey Sucker Honey Eater
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Or Hudsons Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company, Or "the Governor And Company Of Adventurers Of England Trading Into Hudson's Bay," A Corporation Formed For The Purpose Of Importing Into Great Britain The Furs And Skins Which It Obtains, Chiefly By Barter, From The Indians Of British North America. In 167o Charles Ii. Granted A ...
Other Hittite Languages
Other Hittite Languages Khattish.—not Only The Mixed Character Of The Hittite Lan Guage, But Also The Physical Characters Of The "hittite" Race, Its Hyperbrachycephalous Skull, The Large Hooked Nose And Sloping Forehead, Suggested The Hypothesis That Here An Indo-european Nation Is Mingled With A Non-indo-european Race. At The Turn Of ...
Otto Hoetzsch
Hoetzsch, Otto ), German Historian, Was Born At Leipzig On Nov. 14, 1876, And Was Educated At The Thomas Gymnasium Of That City And The University Of Munich. He Be Came, In 1913, Professor Of History At Berlin, And In 192o A Mem Ber Of The Reichstag. Hoetzsch Made A ...
Ozias I Humphry
Humphry, Ozias (i 742-1810), English Miniature Painter, Was Born At Honiton And Educated At The Grammar School Of That Town. Attracted By The Gallery Of Casts Opened By The Duke Of Richmond, Humphry Came To London And Studied At Shipley's School ; And Later He Left For Bath, Where He ...
Palestine Nicia
Nicia, Palestine, Persia; And Smaller Articles Such As Persis, Media, Parthia, Elam And Edessa. See Also Aegean Tion, Cnossus, Crete And Mycenae; Etruscans And Hittites; ...
Partition Of Hungary And
Partition Of Hungary And Turkish Rule The Turks Having Retired, John Zapolya, Voivode Of Transyl Vania, Was Elected King By The Diet (oct. 14, 1526), But He Was A Powerless Dependent On Turkish Support, And A Second Diet In 1527 Elected Ferdinand I. (1527-64), Archduke Of Austria (em Peror From ...
Paul Heinrich Dietrich Holbach
Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron D' (1723-1789), French Philosopher And Man Of Letters, Of German Origin, Was Born At Heidelsheim In The Palatinate. Holbach Kept Open House In Paris For Helvetius, D'alembert, Diderot, Con Dillac, Turgot, Buffon, Grimm, Hume, Garrick, Wilkes, Sterne, And For A Time J. J. Rousseau. For ...
Paul Hinschius
Hinschius, Paul (1835-1898), German Jurist, Was The Son Of Franz Sales August Hinschius (1807-77), And Was Born In Berlin On Dec. 25, 1835. His Father Was Not Only A Scientific Jurist, But Also A Lawyer In Large Practice In Berlin. After Work Ing Under His Father, Hinschius In 2852 Began ...
Paul Huet
Huet, Paul (1804-1869), French Landscape Painter, Was Born In Paris On Oct. 3, 1804. He Forms A Link Between Georges Michel And Theodore Rousseau As One Of The Initiators Of The "paysage Intime" Movement In France. His Fiery, Romantic Tem Perament Led Him To Endow Trees And Natural Objects With ...
Paul Von Hintze
Hintze, Paul Von ), German Admiral And Diplomatist, Was Born At Schwedt-on-the-oder On Feb. 13, 1864. He Entered The Navy, And Became (1908) Military Plenipotentiary At The Russian Court, Where He Was Said To Enjoy The Tsar's Con Fidence. From 1931-14 He Was Ambassador In Mexico, But Was Recalled At ...
Philemon Holland
Holland, Philemon ,i552-1637), English Scholar, "the Translator-general In His Age," Was Born At Chelmsford, Essex, The Son Of A Clergyman, John Holland, Who Had Been In Exile With Miles Coverdale During The Marian Persecution. Hav Ing Become A Fellow Of Trinity College, Cambridge, He Was In Corporated At Oxford (july ...
Philip De Montmorency Horn
Horn, Philip De Montmorency, Count Of (1518-1568), A Man Of Illustrious Descent And Great Possessions In The Netherlands, Became In Succession Under Charles V. And Philip Ii. Stadtholder Of Gelderland, Admiral Of Flanders And Knight Of The Golden Fleece. In 1559 He Commanded The Fleet Which Conveyed Philip Ii. From ...
Philipp Von Hutten
Hutten, Philipp Von (c. German Knight, A Relative Of Ulrich Von Hutten, Joined The Band Of Ad Venturers Which Under Georg Hohermuth, Or George Of Spires, Sailed To Venezuela, Or Venosala As Hutten Calls It, With The Object Of Conquering And Exploiting This Land In The Interests Of The Augsburg ...
Pierre Daniel Huet Huetius
Huet (huetius), Pierre Daniel Bishop Of Avranches, French Scholar, Was Born At Caen. He Was Educated At The Jesuit School Of Caen, And Also Received Lessons From The Protestant Pastor, Samuel Bochart. In 1652 Samuel Bochart Took Huet With Him To Stockholm. This Journey, In Which He Saw Leyden, Amsterdam ...
Pieter Cornelissen Hooft
Hooft, Pieter Cornelissen Dutch Poet And Historian, Was Born At Amsterdam On March 16, 1581. His Father Was For Some Time Burgomaster Of Amsterdam. As Early As 1598 The Young Man Was Made A Member Of The Chamber Of Rhetoric In Lie F De Bloeiende, And Produced Before That Body ...
Pieter De Hooch
Hooch, Pieter De (hoch) (i629-after 1683), Dutch Painter, Born In Rotterdam, And A Pupil Of N. Berchem At Haar Lem. From 1653 He Was In The Service Of Justus De Grange, And Lived At Delft, The Hague And Leyden. In 1654 He Married A Girl Of Delft, Jannetje Van Der ...
Pipe Friction
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Poration
Poration, One Of The Largest And Most Influential Financial Institutions In The Far East, With Branches In Many Of The Principal Cities In China, Japan, Siam, India, Burma And The Straits Settlements, As Well As In London, Lyons, Hamburg, New York And San Francisco. The Bank Was Founded In Hongkong ...
Pressure Chemistry
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Primitive Hunting And Fishing
Hunting And Fishing, Primitive. Archaeologi Cal Evidence And Observations On The Most Backward Peoples Of The Present Day Show An Appreciation Of Animal Food, And, In The Case Of Existing Hunters, Considerable Ingenuity In Methods Of Capturing It. The Earliest Teeth Suggest That Man Was Omnivorous, Eating Flesh As Well ...
Primitive Inventiveness
Primitive Inventiveness Hunting Methods.—methods Of Hunting Vary With The Nature Of The Country And Of The Animal Hunted, The Ingenuity And Inven Tiveness Of The Hunters And The Materials At Their Disposal. The Australians Have Few And Plain Weapons : Their Traps And Snares Are, For The Most Part, Simple ...
Prince Of Hohenlohe Ingelfingen Kraft
Hohenlohe-ingelfingen Kraft, Prince Of (1827-1892), Soldier And Military Writer, Son Of Prince Adolf Of Hohenlohe-ingelfingen (1797-1873), Prime Minister Of Prussia From 1856 To 1862, Was Born At Koschentin In Upper Silesia. He Joined The Prussian Guard Artillery In 1845. In The Bold Advance Of The Guard Corps On The Austrian ...
Pwa
Pwa Housing Division, Concerned With Urban Housing For Low Income Families, Does Not Tell The Whole Story, However. The National Industrial Recovery Act Also Set Up The Sub Sistence Homesteads Division In The Interior Department, With A Revolving Fund Of $25,000,000. This Organization Was Trans Ferred In April 1935 To ...
Quaestor Ince
Ince, Quaestor, Senate, Tribune, Etc. There Are Other Minor Headings And The Articles Agrarian Laws And Roman Law Should Be Consulted. The Chief Tribes Of The Roman World Have Each A Separate Article. We May Mention Helvetii, Huns, Messapii And V0l5ci. Every Province, Etc., Of The Republic Or Empire Has ...
Quintus Hortensius
Hortensius, Quintus, Dictator Of Rome 286 B.c. When The People, Pressed By Their Patrician Creditors, "seceded" To The Janiculum, He Was Commissioned To Put An End To The Strife. He Passed A Law (lex Hortensia) Whereby The Resolutions Of The Multitude (plebiscita) Were Made Binding On All The Citizens, With ...
Quintus Hortensius_2
Hortensius, Quintus (114-5o B.c. ), Surnamed Hor Talus, Roman Orator And Advocate. At The Age Of Nineteen He Made His First Speech At The Bar, And Shortly Afterwards Success Fully Defended Nicomedes Iii. Of Bithynia, One Of Rome's De Pendants In The East, Who Had Been Deprived Of His Throne ...
Ralph Hopton Hopton
Hopton, Ralph Hopton, Baron Royalist Commander In The English Civil War, Was The Son Of Robert Hopton Of Witham, Somerset. He Appears To Have Been Educated At Lincoln College, Oxford, And To Have Served In The Army Of The Elector Palatine In The Early Campaigns Of The Thirty Years' War, ...
Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Gio
Humbert, Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Gio Vanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio 1900), King Of Italy, Son Of Victor Emmanuel Ii. And Of Adelaide, Archduchess Of Austria, Was Born At Turin, Capital Of The Kingdom Of Sardinia, On March 14, 1844. His Education Was Entrusted To Massimo D'azeglio, Pasquale Stanislao Man Cini And ...
Raoul De Houdenc Or
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Ravenna Orleans
Orleans, Ravenna And Marignano. More Isolated But Immor Tal Incidents, For Example The Battles Of Chalons, Tours And Hastings, And The Siege Of Constantinople, 1453, Have Also In Dividual Treatment. The History Of The Various Countries Will Be Found Under Their Respective Names With The Following Exceptions: The History Of ...
Renaissance French Revolutionreform
Renaissance ; French Revolution ; Reform Movement ; Ern Question ; Schleswig-holstein Question ; Pan-german ...
Rican War
Rican War. The Chief Battles Of All These Wars Have Special Ticles, And These Rise In Scale As We Approach The Determinating Military Events Of Recent History. Thus Atlanta, Bull River, ...
Ricarda Hugh
Hugh, Ricarda (1864— ), German Poet And Histori Cal Novelist, Was Born At Brunswick On July 18, 1864, And Educated In Brunswick And Zurich. She Was Appointed Secretary Of The Library In Zurich And Married First Dr. Ceconi, And Later Dr. Richard Huch, A Lawyer. After Leaving Zurich She Lived ...
Richard Henry Or Hengist
Horne, Richard Henry Or Hengist (1803 1884), English Poet And Critic, Was Born In London. He Was Entered At Sandhurst, But Receiving No Commission He Joined The Mexican Navy, And Served In The War Against Spain. In 1837 He Published Two Tragedies, Cosmo De Medici And The Death Of Marlowe, ...
Richard Holt Hutton
Hutton, Richard Holt (1826-1897), English Writer And Theologian, Son Of Joseph Hutton, Unitarian Minister At Leeds, Was Born At Leeds On June 2, 1826. From 1855 To 1895 Hutton And Bagehot Were Joint-editors Of The National Review, A New Monthly, And Conducted It For Ten Years. In 1861 Hutton Became ...
Richard Hooker
Hooker, Richard English Writer, Author Of The Laws Of Ecclesiastical Polity, Son Of Richard Vowell Or Hooker, Was Born At Heavitree, Near Exeter. His Uncle, John Hooker Alias Vowell, Chamberlain Of Exeter, And A Man Of Some Literary Repute, Induced Bishop Jewel To Become Richard's Patron And To Bestow On ...
Richard Howe Howe
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl British Ad Miral, Was Born In London On March 8, 1726. He Was The Second Son Of The 2nd Viscount Howe. He Entered The Navy In 1740, Saw Much Active Service, And Was Rapidly Promoted. In 1755 He Went With Boscawen To North America As Captain ...
Richard Hurd
Hurd, Richard (172o-18o8), English Divine And Writer, Bishop Of Worcester, Was Born At Congreve, Penkridge, Stafford Shire, On Jan. 13, 172o, And Educated At Emmanuel College, Cam Bridge, Of Which He Became A Fellow. He Was Ordained In And In 1748 He Published Some Remarks On An Enquiry Into The ...
Richard March Hoe
Hoe, Richard March American In Ventor, Was Born In New York City On Sept. 12, 1812. He Was The Son Of Robert Hoe (1784-1833), An English-born American Mechanic, Who With His Brothers-in-law, Peter And Mathew Smith, Established In New York City A Manufactory Of Printing Presses, And Used Steam To ...
Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron (1809-1885), English Poet And Man Of Letters, Son Of Robert Pemberton Milnes, Of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire, And The Hon. Henrietta Monckton, Daughter Of The Fourth Lord Galway, Was Born In London And Educated Privately And At Trinity College, Cambridge. There He Became A Member ...
Richard Morris Hunt
Hunt, Richard Morris (1828-1895), American Ar Chitect, Was Born In Brattleboro (vt.) On Oct. 31, 1828. He Studied In Europe (1843-54), Mainly In The Ecole Des Beaux Arts At Paris, And In 1854 Was Appointed Inspector Of Works On The Buildings Connecting The Tuileries With The Louvre. Under Hector Lefuel ...
Richard Or Richard De
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Robert Forman Horton
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Robert Hooke
Hooke, Robert English Experimental Phy Sicist, Was Born July 18, 1635, At Freshwater, Isle Of Wight. After 1655 He Was Employed By The Hon. Robert Boyle, Who Used His Skill In The Construction Of His Air-pump. On Nov. 12, 1662 He Was Appointed Curator Of Experiments To The Royal Society, ...
Robert Hunter
Hunter, Robert (d. , Colonial Governor Of New York, New Jersey And Jamaica, Was The Son Of James And Mar Garet (spalding) Hunter Of Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland. Forsaking His Apprenticeship As An Apothecary, Hunter Joined The British Army And Fought At Blenheim (1704) Under Marlborough, With Whom He Seems To ...
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro (1809 1887), American Statesman, Was Born In Essex County, Va., On April 21, 1809. He Entered The University Of Virginia In His 17th Year And Was One Of Its First Graduates; He Then Studied Law At The Winchester (va.) Law School, And In 183o Was Admitted ...
Robert Stevenson Horne Horne
Horne, Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Vis Count (1871— ), British Statesman, Was Born At Slamannan Manse, Stirlingshire, On Feb. 28. Educated At George Watson's College, Edinburgh, And The University Of Glasgow, He Became, In 1895, Lecturer In Philosophy At University College, Bangor. Called To The Scottish Bar In 1896, In ...
Rowel Dda
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Rusting
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Sam Or Samuel Houston
Houston, Sam Or Samuel (1793-1863), American Gen Eral And Statesman, Of Scotch-irish Descent, Was Born Near Lex Ington, Va., On March 2, 1793. His Father, Who Had Fought In The Revolutionary War, Died In 1806, And Soon Afterward Samuel Removed With His Mother To The Frontier In Blount County, Tenn. ...
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Hirsch, Samson Raphael Jewish Theologian, Was Born In Hamburg On June 20, 1808, And Died At Frankfort-on-the-main On Dec. 31, 1888. He Studied At Mann Heim And At Bonn University, And Was Chief Rabbi Of Oldenburg From 1830-41, When He Was Transferred To Aurich And Osnabruck. In 1846 He Was ...
Samuel Dirksz Van Hoogstraten
Hoogstraten, Samuel Dirksz Van (1627 1678), Dutch Painter, Was Born At Dordrecht On Aug. 2, 1627, And Died There On Oct. 19, 1678. He Studied First With His Father, And Then, From About 1642 Onwards, In The School Of Rembrandt. He Then Travelled As A Master And A Portrait Painter, ...
Samuel Gridley Howe
Howe, Samuel Gridley American Philanthropist, Was Born At Boston, Mass., On Nov. Io, 1801. He Attended Brown University, Providence, R.i., And The Harvard Medical School. He Was Admitted To Practice, But Abandoned The Medical Field To Take Part In The Greek Revolution. After Six Years With The Greek Army He ...
Samuel Hoar
Hoar, Samuel (1778-1856), American Lawyer, Was Born In Lincoln (mass.), On May 18, 1778. He Graduated At Harvard In 1802, Was Admitted To The Massachusetts Bar In 1805, And Began Practice At Concord. His Success Was Immediate, And For Half A Century He Was One Of The Leading Lawyers Of ...
Samuel Holdheim
Holdheim, Samuel (1806-186o), Jewish Rabbi, A Leader Of Reform In The German Synagogue, Was Born In Posen, And Died In Berlin On Aug. 22, 1860. He Was Educated By His Father And Then At Prague And Berlin. He Was Rabbi At Frank Fort-on-the-oder From 1836 To 1840 When He Was ...
Samuel Hood Hood
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount British Admiral, Was The Son Of Samuel Hood, Vicar Of Butleigh, Somer Set, And Prebendary Of Wells. He Was Born On Dec. 12, 24, And Entered The Navy On May 6, 1741. He Served Part Of His Time As Midshipman With Rodney In The "ludlow Castle," ...
Samuel Hopkins
Hopkins, Samuel American Theologian, Was Born In Waterbury (conn.) , On Sept. 17, 1721. He Graduated At Yale College In 1741; Studied Divinity At Northampton (mass.), With Jonathan Edwards; Was Licensed To Preach In 1742, And In Dec. 1743 Was Ordained Pastor Of The Church In The North Parish Of ...
Samuel Horsley
Horsley, Samuel (1733-1806), English Divine, Was Born In London On Sept. 15, 1733. Entering Trinity College, Cambridge, He Became Ll.b. In 1758, And In 1759 Succeeded His Father As Rector Of Newington Butts, Surrey. Horsley Was Elected F.r.s. In 1767; And Secretary In 1773, But, In Consequence Of A Dif ...
Samuel Huntington
Huntington, Samuel American Jurist And Public Official, Was Born At Windham, Conn., On July 3, 1731. He Received Only A Common School Education, But Read Widely And In 1753 Began To Study Law. In 1760 He Settled At Norwich, Conn., Where He Achieved Rapid And Extensive Success In His Practice. ...
Selina Hastings Huntingdon
Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess Of English Religious Leader And Founder Of A Sect Of Calvinistic Methodists, Known As The Countess Of Huntingdon's Connection, Was The Daughter Of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers. She Was Born At Stanton Harold, Near Ashby-de-la-zouch, Leicestershire, On Aug. 24, 1707, And In 1727 Married Theophilus ...