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  Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 1
Partridge was the grandson of George Sidney Partridge and Mary Tew Partridge.
George Wirth was born in Bavaria and attended the Polytechnical Institute at Ratisbonne (Regensburg), Upper Palatinate District, Germany.
George Wirth was one of the most significant architects to work in Duluth in the early 1880’s, and was particularly noted for his design of the 1883 Duluth Grand Opera House.
www.angelfire.com /mn/thursdaynighthikes/cap2cathhill.html   (17199 words)

  
 International Brigades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Aitken, (father of Ian Aitken, who was later to be political editor of the Guardian)
Norman Bethune - A Canadian doctor who served with the Canadian, Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion or Mac-Paps and developed many brilliant medical tactics.
Land and Freedom, by Ken Loach although the subject of the film is not the International Brigades, it portrays international volunteers, and the actual International Brigades are indeed featured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Brigade   (3514 words)

  
 Albion College Catalog 2003-2004 > Departments > English
Moreover, many students have chosen English as a second major in recent years, using it to extend and strengthen their preparation for medicine, business and a variety of other fields.
Students in English 101 will write frequently, producing a minimum of 6,000 words during the semester, and they will receive careful and regular commentary on their writing.
(English 253 is not a prerequisite.) Diedrick, Jordan.
www.albion.edu /academics/03catalog/departments/english.asp   (3149 words)

  
 George Bethune English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Bethune English (Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7, 1787 – Washington, DC, September 20, 1828) was a critic of traditional Christianity and an adventurer.
The son of Penelope Bethune and Thomas English, he graduated from Harvard College in 1807, after receiving the highest academic award, and a Masters in theology.
During his theology studies at Harvard, he began to doubt the truth of the Christian religion, which he critiqued in a book entitled The Grounds of Christianity Examined (Boston, 1813).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Bethune_English   (321 words)

  
 Albion College Catalog 2005-2006 - English
Major course requirements same as for the English major, except that English 348 must be included in the four 300-level courses.
Students who are placed into English 100 as a result of the placement test must complete the class during their first full semester at Albion.
Major attention is given to the representation of gender in the plays, and other topics include the history of critical response, the variety of theoretical approaches currently available, and the many uses to which the plays have been put.
www.albion.edu /academics/catalog/departments/english.asp   (3676 words)

  
 Nile Notes of a Howadji | American Travellers in Egypt
A few years later, a brief note in the April 26, 1827 issue of Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) comments that a subscription is underway for the support of Sarah Belzoni "widow of the celebrated traveller" and "partner in the arduous undertakings of her husband" who is now living in Brussels.
Among the first Americans to leave full accounts of their Egyptian experience were George Bethune English (1787-1828) who traveled in 1820; George Rapelje (b.1771), traveling in 1822; George Jones, the chaplin aboard the USS Delaware which visited Egypt in 1834; and John Lowell, Jr.
George Robbins Gliddon (1809-1857), born in Devonshire, was taken to Egypt at an early age by his father, John Gliddon (later U.S. Consul at Alexandria).
www.sil.si.edu /ondisplay/nile-notes/explore-01.htm   (638 words)

  
 Online Book: Special History Report - The Colbert Raid
Bethune failed to back up his threat, and there were no reprisals until April 1782.
Indian Agent Bethune was in a position to bring pressure on Colbert to strike.
In addition to official encouragement given by Bethune, there were in the Chickasaw Nation a number of British fugitives from Natchez, as well as from Georgia and the Carolinas.
www.nps.gov /arpo/colbert/IIc1.htm   (715 words)

  
 MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Bethune Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Bethunes accompanied Richard the Lion-Heart, King of England, on his crusade to the Holy Land, and one is said to have been held prisoner with the king when he was held to ransom by the Duke of Austria.
David Bethune, the last cardinal and primate of Scotland before the Reformation, was born at Balfour in 1494.
Robert Bethune, a younger son of the Laird of Creich, accompanied the young Mary, Queen of Scots to France on her marriage to the heir to the French throne.
www.myclan.com /clans/Bethune_157/default.php   (831 words)

  
 Book Report
George Brinley (1817-1888) was born in Boston and spent most of his li fe as a banker in Hartford, CT. He began collecting Americana while he was a student.
Although the English Colonial period was a time of harsh exploitation of the Cypriot people, it must not be forgotten that it was during this period that the foundations were laid for a state of law which functioned in all sectors.
It was on one of these trips that the first [recorded] landing was made by the English on Australian shores, at the entrance to King Sound on the northwest coast, in 1688.
modena.intergate.ca /personal/milenium/vpsite/booklist.htm   (17609 words)

  
 The Standard Bearer: December 15, 2001
George Bethune was a minister in the Reformed Church of America in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Bethune emphasizes that comfort is necessary in our life in the world because, although we know that afflictions are for our good, this is not evident to us and afflictions are very troublesome.
Bethune also argues forcibly for sprinkling as the preferable mode of baptism, although the mode is a matter indifferent.
www.prca.org /standard_bearer/volume78/2001dec15.html   (17277 words)

  
 EVERETT - LoveToKnow Article on EVERETT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With him these orations, instead of being the ephemeral entertainments of an hour, became careful studies of some important theme.
Eager to avert, if possible, the impending conflict of arms between the North and South, Everett prepared an oration on George Washington, which he delivered in every part of America.
In this way, too, he raised more than one hundred thousand dollars, for the purchase of the old home of Washington at Mount Vernon.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EV/EVERETT.htm   (1202 words)

  
 George Palmer Putnam
Publisher George Palmer Putnam (1814-1872), a self-taught genius from Maine, began his independent publishing enterprise in 1848 in New York City, after working for a bookseller and other publishers there, starting in 1829 (at the age of fifteen).
His son George Haven Putnam at the end of his biography of his father says that the copyright struggle exhausted him and may have caused his early death in 1872.
With regard to Volume 2, parts of the James Fenimore Cooper article are in the hand of George Washington Greene, and one of the two drafts on Caroline Maria Sedgwick is in the hand of Sedgwick herself.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/putnam.html   (3978 words)

  
 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Judith, daughter of the Emperor Charles the Bald, was married off twice to English Kings; but she returned and eloped with Baldwin Iron Arm.
English Kings spoke French for many generations and the English language was permanently altered by French.
Man was conquered in turn by the Irish, the Scots, the English of Northumbria (in 620), the Welsh, and then the Scotish Lord of the Hebrides (c.836).
www.friesian.com /flanders.htm   (10467 words)

  
 George Bethune English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ENGLISH, George Bethune, adventurer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 7 March 1787" died in Washingion, D. C., 20 Sept,., 1828.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1807, and then studied law, but neglected his practice and turned his attention to theology.
Edward Everett answered this in 1814, and in reply English wrote "Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook." Subsequently he edited a western paper for a time, and then sailed to the Mediterranean as a lieutenant of U. marines.
www.famousamericans.net /georgebethuneenglish   (399 words)

  
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English "sweetness" here is not simply a question of verse as opposed to prose.
It was up to the English, however, to complete the restoration of poetry, by transforming "fair" and implicitly feminine "Rhyme" into explicitly masculine "Verse." "Brittain, last," Dryden notes, "In Manly sweetness all the rest surpass'd" (p.
She ascribes this change to the fact that by the eighteenth century writing by women was less of a novelty (p.
www.geocities.com /hargrange/philipsloscocco.html   (7355 words)

  
 Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although I know nothing of the life of Dr. Norman Bethune, this biopic appears to be a credible history lesson.
This is because the director and the screenwriter seem to be men with banal vision and little imagination.
The movie this film most reminds me of is Gandhi, whose faults it shares but Bethune does not have as powerful a cast.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0099127   (295 words)

  
 Jacksonville Modern Times
Here are pictures of husband George McLeod, her niece, great grandson, Albert Sr.
Among her intimate friends were A. Philip Randolph, another Jacksonville native, and Mary McLeod Bethune, whom Eartha occasionally visited at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona.
She was born in 1876, and adopted by Clara English White.
members.aol.com /nonracists/jxmodern.html   (3292 words)

  
 Browse By Title: G - Project Gutenberg Europe
George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings (English)
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus (English)
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor (English)
pge.rastko.net /browse/titles/g   (3359 words)

  
 Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt, Syria & Arabia
George Bethune English, of Boston, accompanied, in a military capacity, and an account of which he subsequently published.
Ibrahim Pasha, the remaining son, is now in Syria, with a numerous army, reposing upon the laurels acquired in his late battles with the Grand Vizier, and the Sultan's disciplined troops.
He accordingly, in 1820, sent an expedition of four thousand men, to those countries, under the command of his second son, Isma`il Pasha, which resulted in the entire conquest of extensive provinces, with which Egypt has always had an important commerce.
www.sunnah.org /history/mhdalip.htm   (3336 words)

  
 Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB at antiqbook.com
15350: CHEEVER, GEORGE B. God against slavery: and the freedom and duty of the pulpit to rebuke it, as a sin against God.
with illustrations in verse by the Rev. George Croly.
Short notices of all printers, stationers, book-binders, and others connected with it from the issue of the first dated book in 1457 to the incorporation of the company of stationers in 1557.
www.antiqbook.com /boox/rul/books1000.shtml   (11768 words)

  
 Andover-Harvard Library - Palfrey Exhibit - Divinity School of the University of Cambridge.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As there is no record of the time when they entered on theological studies, their names are arranged in the order of the College Catalogue, with the exception of the last four, who are not graduates of Harvard College.
Daniel Austin, George Washington Burnap, Caleb Stetson, Christopher Tappan Thayer, William H-- White, William Augustus Whitwell.
Benjamin Brigham, George Bradford, Jonathan Cole, Wendell Bayard Davis, Frederick Augustus Farley, George Fiske, Frederick Henry Hedge, Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, William Parsons Lunt, Artemas Bowers Muzzy, John Langdon Sibley, Moses Thomas.
www.hds.harvard.edu /library/exhibits/online/palfrey/divsch.html   (1139 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark: What Else Happened: July 30, 1805   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He arranges some willow brush to lie on, “and should have had a comfortable nights lodge but for the mosquetoes which infested me all night.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED: George Bethune English turns eighteen this year and is enrolled at Harvard.
He will later obtain an M.A. from Harvard Divinity School, and, becoming convinced that the New Testament is valueless, in 1813 will write a pamphlet to that effect, which will create a furor.
www.lewisandclarkandwhatelse.com /lewis_and_clark_what_else/2005/07/july_30_1805.html   (270 words)

  
 Phoebe Bethune's Journal
actually she speaks the odd language that they speak in the eastern mountain of kshdfishfls they call it english.
george is foxy: but thats just cause i'm also my own entertainment
george is foxy: i wonder if people would actually come to see you entertain yourself
www.blurty.com /users/feeblemcnevil   (3480 words)

  
 William Wells Brown
The American Anti-Slavery Society provided him with letters of commendation introducing him to many distinguished Europeans, and he was soon well known in intellectual circles in Europe.
Among his friends were the English statesman Richard Cobden and the French novelist Victor Hugo.
He found time to study medicine and was active in the temperance, woman's-suffrage, and prison reform movements.
www.africawithin.com /bios/william_brown.htm   (651 words)

  
 Voyages and Travels
Voyage of the Ann-Royal from Surat to Mokha, in 1618.
Massacre of the English at Amboyna, in 1623.
It is with much grateful satisfaction, that the Editor has to acknowledge his high obligations to the Curators and Librarians of the Edinburgh public libraries, belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, the University, and the Writers to his Majesty's Signet, for the communication of many valuable and scarce materials.
gutenberg.net.au /voyagesandtravels.html   (4585 words)

  
 Bibliography for Anne Finch
As prepared by G. Falle of the English Department of the University of Toronto, the reader will find a text of "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" and "The Tree" both taken from the 1713 Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions.
The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture in England, 1651-1740.
English Poetry of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
www.jimandellen.org /finch/finchbiblio.html   (4822 words)

  
 To Seek the Peace of the City: Early Jewish Settlement in Charlottesville
A Jewish metallurgist from Prague, Joachim Gaunse (or Jacob Gans), was in Virginia as early as 1585 as part of the first English attempt to settle North America at Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Colony.
Isaac B. Seixas, "minister" of Beth Shalome in Richmond, taught Hebrew grammar and vocabulary to George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson's mentor at the College of William and Mary.
My Slaves, hereafter named are to be and they are to be [sic] and they are hereby manumited and made free so that after the different periods hereafter mentioned they shall enjoy all the priviliges and immunities of freed people....
www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/seek/early.html   (1271 words)

  
 Bibliography for Women's Studies
This is the best general anthology for women's poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present that I know of.
Lamb, M. "The Myth of the Countess of Pembroke: The Dramatic Circle", Yearbook of English Studies, 11 (1981), pp.
The emphasis was originally on English, French and Italian Early Modern women.
www.jimandellen.org /renwomenpoets.html   (7162 words)

  
 Fonds Level Description - Osler Library Archives - Osler Library of the History of Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John G. Bethune received the chief portion of his medical education at McGill with Dr. Holmes.
Fonds contains a manuscript, intitled “Remarks on the Osteology of Alexander Monro by himself”, written by Dr. John George Bethune who transcribed an old damaged manuscript found in a trunk in the garret of the steam factory of Bethune’s father in August 1848.
The damaged manuscript was, according to Bethune, from one of three famous physicians, three successive generations of an Edinburgh family, who all bore the name Alexander Monro.
www.health.library.mcgill.ca /osler/archives/detail.cfm?FondID=32   (139 words)

  
 Index of Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson

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