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  US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Isaac Kauffman Funk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1890 the name was changed to Funk and Wagnalls Company, to more accurately reflect Wagnalls' partnership.
Perhaps Funk's most important achievement was his The Standard Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1893.
Funk was a Prohibitionist and founded the Voice (1880), an organ of that party.
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 Isaac Did You Mean isaac?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Isaac was so called because when his mother, Sarah, overheard that she would bear a child in her old age, she laughed (Genesis 18:10-15, 21:6-7).
Isaac was circumcised by his father when eight days old (Genesis 4-7); and a great feast was held in connection with his being weaned.
Isaac is "at once a counterpart of his father in simple devoutness and purity of life, and a contrast in his passive weakness of character, which in part, at least, may have sprung from his relations to his mother and wife.
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