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Digby, George

(Encyclopedia)Digby, George: see Bristol, George Digby, 2d earl of. ...

Devereux, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Devereux, Robert: see Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d earl of. ...

Wilmot, John

(Encyclopedia)Wilmot, John: see Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of. ...

Wriothesley, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Wriothesley, Henry: see Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3d earl of. ...

Grassmann, Hermann Günther

(Encyclopedia)Grassmann, Hermann Günther hĕrˈmän günˈtər gräsˈmän [key], 1809–77, German mathematician and Sanskrit scholar, educated in Berlin. He invented a new algebra of vectors (somewhat similar to...

Bond, Julian

(Encyclopedia)Bond, Julian (Horace Julian Bond), 1940–2015, U.S. civil-rights leader, b. Nashville, Tenn. As a student at Morehouse College, he participated in sit-ins at segregated Atlanta restaurants. He was a ...

Duris of Samos

(Encyclopedia)Duris of Samos do͞oˈrĭs [key], fl. 3d cent. b.c., Greek historian. A descendent of Alcibiades, Duris was tyrant of Samos for a time. He wrote Samian Chronicle—a history of Samos—and a rambling ...

translation

(Encyclopedia)translation [Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without losing its origin...

Montagu, Edward

(Encyclopedia)Montagu, Edward: see Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st earl of. ...

Marshal, William

(Encyclopedia)Marshal, William: see Pembroke, William Marshal, 1st earl of. ...