(Encyclopedia) KöpenickKöpenickköˈpənĭk [key], district of Berlin, E Germany, at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme rivers. It is an industrial center and a tourist spot, with forests and large…
(Encyclopedia) Dekker, Thomas, c,1570–1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He…
poetBorn: 10/21/1904Birthplace: Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland What Joyce did for Dublin, Patrick Kavanagh's poetry did for the “stony grey soil of Monaghan,” revealing the unsentimental truth…
DANIELS, Charles, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 24, 1825; at an early age he was taken to Toledo, Ohio, and learned his fatherâs trade of shoemaker; moved to…
ALLEY, John Bassett, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lynn, Essex County, Mass., January 7, 1817; attended the common schools; at the age of fourteen was apprenticed as a shoemaker…
HALL, Nathan Kelsey, a Representative from New York; born in Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.Y., March 28, 1810; moved to Erie County in early youth with his parents; attended the district…
(Encyclopedia) Keats, Ezra Jack, 1916–83, American author and illustrator of children's books, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Jacob Ezra Katz. During the Great Depression, he painted murals for the Works…
(Encyclopedia) Sachs, HansSachs, Hanshäns zäks [key], 1494–1576, German poet, leading meistersinger of the Nuremberg school. A shoemaker and guild master, he wrote more than 4,000 master songs in…
Senate Years of Service: 1863-1875Party: Republican; Liberal RepublicanSPRAGUE, William, (nephew of William Sprague [1799-1856], son-in-law of Salmon P. Chase), a Senator from Rhode Island;…
