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finch

(Encyclopedia) finch, common name for members of the Fringillidae, the largest family of birds (including over half the known species), found in most parts of the world except Australia. The true…

Herodes Atticus

(Encyclopedia) Herodes Atticus (Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes)Herodes Atticushĭrōˈdāz [key]Herodes Atticusătˈĭkəs [key], c.101–c.177, Greek Sophist, rhetorician, and patron of learning, b.…

Atticus Herodes

(Encyclopedia) Atticus Herodes: see Herodes Atticus.

Harper Lee

(Nelle Harper Lee)authorBorn: 4/28/1926Birthplace: Monroeville, Alabama Author of the bestseller-turned-Oscar-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), she won a Pulitzer for the novel in 1961.…

Finch, Heneage

(Encyclopedia) Finch, Heneage: see Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of.

weaver finch

(Encyclopedia) weaver finch: see weaverbird.

Back to School at the Movies

Lights! Camera! Learning!American Classics by Beth Rowen To Kill a Mockingbird…

Lee, Harper

(Encyclopedia) Lee, Harper (Nelle Harper Lee), 1926–2016, American novelist, b. Monroeville, Ala. A member of an old Southern family and related to Robert E. Lee, she was a lifelong friend of Truman…

Isaac FINCH, Congress, NY (1783-1845)

FINCH, Isaac, a Representative from New York; born in Stillwater, Saratoga County, N.Y., October 13, 1783; moved with his parents to Peru, Clinton County, N.Y., in 1787; attended the public…

(Encyclopedia) Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2d earl of, 1647–1730, English politician, son of Heneage Finch, the 1st earl. A staunch supporter of the Church of England, he disapproved of James II's pro–…