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Ingoldsby, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Ingoldsby, Thomas: see Barham, Richard Harris. ...

Sheridan, Frances

(Encyclopedia)Sheridan, Frances: see Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. ...

Wallace Collection

(Encyclopedia)Wallace Collection: see under Wallace, Sir Richard. ...

ransom

(Encyclopedia)ransom, price of redemption demanded by the captor of a person, vessel, or city. In ancient times cities frequently paid ransom to prevent their plundering by captors. The custom of ransoming was form...

Morris, Richard, 1730–1810, American landowner and judge

(Encyclopedia)Morris, Richard, 1730–1810: see under Morris, family. ...

Starr, Ringo

(Encyclopedia) Starr, Ringo (b. Richard Starkey): see Beatles, The. ...

Jeffers, Robinson

(Encyclopedia)Jeffers, Robinson, 1887–1962, American poet and dramatist, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Occidental College, 1905. From 1914 until his death Jeffers lived on the Big Sur section of the rocky California coast...

Drabble, Margaret

(Encyclopedia)Drabble, Margaret, 1939–, English novelist, b. Sheffield, Yorkshire; sister of A. S. Byatt. Drabble's rigorous and unsentimentally realistic vision of an England split between traditional values and...

Baskerville, John

(Encyclopedia)Baskerville, John băsˈkərvĭlˌ [key], 1706–75, English designer of type and printer. He and Caslon were the two great type designers of the 18th cent. in England. He began his work as printer an...

wax

(Encyclopedia)wax, substance secreted by glands on the abdomen of the bee and known commonly as beeswax; also various substances resembling beeswax. Waxes are mixtures comprising chiefly esters of monohydroxy alcoh...