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Adelbert AMES, Congress, MS (1835-1933)

Senate Years of Service: 1870-1874Party: RepublicanAMES, Adelbert, (father of Butler Ames and son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin Butler), a Senator from Mississippi; born in Rockland, Knox County…

WILLIAMS, John, Congress, TN (1778-1837)

Senate Years of Service: 1815-1823 Party: Democratic Republican WILLIAMS, John, (brother of Lewis Williams and Robert Williams, father of Joseph Lanier Williams, and cousin of Marmaduke…

William WINDOM, Congress, MN (1827-1891)

Senate Years of Service: 1870-1871; 1871-1881; 1881-1883Party: Republican; Republican; RepublicanWINDOM, William, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Belmont County, Ohio,…

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…

Suso, Heinrich

(Encyclopedia) Suso, HeinrichSuso, Heinrichhīnˈrĭkh z&oomacr;ˈzō [key], c.1295–1366, German mystic, a Dominican friar, also known as Henry Suso. While studying at Cologne he came under the…

Balla, Giacomo

(Encyclopedia) Balla, Giacomo, 1871–1958, Italian painter, one of the founders of futurism. He moved from Turin to Rome in his twenties and began painting in a realist style. He travelled (1900) to…

Hiram Rhodes REVELS, Congress, MS (1827-1901)

Senate Years of Service: 1870-1871Party: RepublicanREVELS, Hiram Rhodes, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., on September 27, 1827; attended Beech Grove…

Washington

Capital: Olympia State abbreviation/Postal code: Wash./WA Governor: Jay Inslee, D (to Jan. 2019) Lieut. Governor: Cyrus Habib, D (to Jan. 2019) Senators: Patty Murray, D (…

DK History: Reformation

WHO LED THE REFORMATION? WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF THE REFORMATION? FIND OUT MOREThe Reformation was a Christian movement of the 1500s. Its followers criticized the Catholic Church for corruption…

Murray, James Stuart, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Murray or Moray, James Stuart, 1st earl ofMurray or Moray, James Stuart, 1st earl ofboth: mûrˈē [key], 1531?–1570, Scottish nobleman. An illegitimate son of James V by a daughter of…