(Encyclopedia) Bridgwater, town, Somerset, SW England, on the Parrett River estuary. It is a port for seaborne traffic and a market town. Bridgwater is…
(Encyclopedia) cire perduecire perduesēr pĕrdüˈ [key] [Fr.,=lost wax], sculptural process of metal casting that may be used for hollow and solid casting. The sculptor makes a model in plaster or clay…
What to Read While You're Waiting for the Next Harry Potter: Favorites from Other Fantastic Series
by Holly Hartman Harry Potter wasn't the first child to discover he possessed magical…
Senate Years of Service: 1818-1824; 1844-1849Party: Democratic Republican; Adams-Clay Republican; WhigJOHNSON, Henry, a Senator and a Representative from Louisiana; born in Virginia September…
Senate Years of Service: 1824-1827; 1837-1847Party: Adams-Clay Federalist; Anti-Jacksonian; WhigCLAYTON, Thomas, (son of Joshua Clayton and cousin of John Middleton Clayton), a Representative…
Senate Years of Service: 1818-1824Party: Democratic Republican; Adams-Clay RepublicanEDWARDS, Ninian, (son of Benjamin Edwards), a Senator from Illinois; born at âMount Pleasant,â…
(Encyclopedia) Latrobe, John Hazlehurst Boneval, 1803–91, American philanthropist, b. Philadelphia; son of Benjamin H. Latrobe. He studied law, and from 1828 until his death he was regularly retained…
Born: 3/15/1767Birthplace: Waxhaw, S.C. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in what is now generally agreed to be Waxhaw, S.C. After a turbulent boyhood as an orphan and a British prisoner,…
A mosaic is a picture or design made by gluing together small stones, pieces of glass or other hard materials. In the ancient world, grand homes sometimes had mosaic floors. From ancient cave…
(Encyclopedia) faiencefaiencefāĕnsˈ, –änsˈ, fī– [key] [for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. The…
