Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Massachusetts
Member Name Birth-Death ABBOTT, Amos 1786-1868 ABBOTT, Josiah Gardner 1814-1891 ADAMS, Benjamin 1764-1837…
(Encyclopedia) Celtic Church, name given to the Christian Church of the British Isles before the mission (597) of St. Augustine of Canterbury from Rome. Founded in the 2d or 3d cent. by missionaries…
(Encyclopedia) Stuart, James Ewell Brown (Jeb Stuart), 1833–64, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Patrick co., Va. Most of his U.S. army service was with the 1st Cavalry in…
(Encyclopedia) Zardari, Asif AliZardari, Asif Aliäˈsĭf äˈlē zärdäˈrē [key], 1955–, Pakistani politician, president of Pakistan (2008–13), b. Nawabshah. From a wealthy, prominent family, he studied at…
Those Quotable Irish
John Millington Synge, W.B. Yeats, and others
Compiled by David Johnson, Ann Marie Imbornoni, and Borgna Brunner
The Irish have always been…
(Encyclopedia) Gothic revival, term designating a return to the building styles of the Middle Ages. Although the Gothic revival was practiced throughout Europe, it attained its greatest importance in…
(Encyclopedia) GirondistsGirondistsjĭrŏnˈdĭsts [key] or GirondinsGirondistszhērôNdăNˈ [key], political group of moderate republicans in the French Revolution, so called because the central members…
(Encyclopedia) Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville. The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all…
