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Lalemant, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Lalemant, CharlesLalemant, Charlesshärl lälmäNˈ [key], 1587–1674, French Jesuit missionary in North America; brother of Jérôme Lalemant and uncle of Gabriel Lalemant. He arrived in…

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

(Encyclopedia) Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 1484–1558, Italian philologist and physician in France. Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician. A scholar of…

Christianity

(Encyclopedia) Christianity, religion founded in Palestine by the followers of Jesus. One of the world's major religions, it predominates in Europe and the Americas, where it has been a powerful…

Fernando WOOD, Congress, NY (1812-1881)

WOOD, Fernando, (brother of Benjamin Wood), a Representative from New York; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1812; attended the public schools; moved with his father to New York City in…

Bellini

(Encyclopedia) BelliniBellinibĕl-lēˈnē [key], illustrious family of Venetian painters of the Renaissance. Jacopo BelliniJacopo Belliniyäˈkōpō [key], c.1400–1470, was a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano.…

Avon, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Avon, 1st earl of: see Eden, Anthony, 1st earl of Avon.

Bonaparte, Charles Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Bonaparte, Charles Joseph, 1851–1921, U.S. cabinet official, b. Baltimore; grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson. A lawyer and political leader in Baltimore, he…

Lalemant, Gabriel

(Encyclopedia) Lalemant, Gabriel (Saint Gabriel Lalemant)Lalemant, Gabrielgäbrēĕlˈ [key]Lalemant, Gabriel lälmäNˈ [key], 1610–49, French Jesuit missionary in North America, nephew of Charles Lalemant…