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	Encyclopedia: Walter Scott
		Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1771, the son of a Scottish solicitor of limited means, the young Walter Scott survived a childhood bout of polio that would leave him lame in his right leg for the rest of his life.
		As his fame grew during this phase of his career, he was granted the title of baronet, becoming Sir Walter Scott.
		Scott was also responsible, through a series of pseudonymous letters published in the Edinburgh Weekly News in 1826, for retaining the right of Scottish banks to issue their own banknotes, which is reflected to this day by his continued appearance on the front of all notes issued by the Bank of Scotland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Walter-Scott (4973 words)

	Scott, Walter - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Scott, Walter
		Scott was also the creator of the historical novel, combining naturalness and realism with the historical and romantic element of adventure and the marvels of superstition.
		How far Scott was legally responsible is a matter of controversy, but he felt himself under a moral obligation to satisfy the firm's creditors, and at the age of 55 set himself the heroic task of paying off the enormous debt of £114,000.
		Scott exerted a strong influence on the imaginative life of his country.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Scott,+Walter (645 words)

	Scott, Thomas Walter
		Scott, Thomas Walter, politician, journalist, printer, premier of Saskatchewan (b at London Twp, Ont 27 Oct 1867; d at Guelph, Ont 23 Mar 1938).
		He moved to REGINA in 1886 and by 1896 had become an influential journalist and owner of the Regina Leader and the Moose Jaw Times.
		Scott went to PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE in 1885 and apprenticed as a printer.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007233 (151 words)

	Walter Savitch
		The Wreck of the Walter Scott Mark Twain's views on Sir Walter Scott's influence in the pre-Civil War South as expressed in Life on the Mississippi and Huckleberry Finn.
		Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate On-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).
		Walter Describes Walter Lord's hobbies, his apartment, and the visits of one of his friends.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Walter_Savitch.html (319 words)

	United States Capitol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas U. Walter was responsible for the wing extensions and the "wedding cake" cast-iron dome, three times the height of the original dome and 30 m in diameter, which had to be supported on the existing masonry piers.
		The current building is the fourth to serve as the U.S. capitol, after the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland (1783–1784), Federal Hall in New York (1789–1790) and Congress Hall in Philadelphia (1790–1800).
		The building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Capitol (1135 words)

	SI OAHP: SPQ: Winter 1992
		Walter's external contribution is visible at the courtyard entrance and the east entrance vestibule, which formerly served as the entrance to the Post Office Department.
		OAHP does have copies of Walter's drawings for the GPO, the originals of which are in the office of the Architect of the Capitol and at the National Archives, but Jennifer will ensure that our files on Walter's contribution to the building are fully documented as well.
		Walter held the position Architect of the Capitol from 1851-1865, during which time he designed extensions to the Treasury Building, the Patent Office Building (present home of AAPG), and the Capitol Building.
	www.si.edu /oahp/spq/spq92w2.htm (539 words)

	Department of the Treasury - Office of the Curator - Exhibitions
		Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walter (1804-1887), the designer and builder of the new dome for the U.S. Capitol between 1851 and 1863, was a persistent critic of Robert Mills's work at the Treasury Building.
		Walter decried the exterior aesthetics of the building, as well as its placement, claimed that it was structurally unsound, and complained that the office spaces were small, damp, and dark, and that the corridors were too narrow.
		Walter's criticism, particularly of the interior spaces, led to dramatic changes in the construction of the three remaining wings of the Treasury Building, authorized in 1855.
	www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/exhibitions/openspace/board_5/exhibition5.htm (375 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Carlyle: On Sir Walter Scott, 1838
		Walter Scott became Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, of Abbotsford; on whom Fortune seemed to pour her whole cornucopia of wealth, honour and worldly goods; the favourite of Princes and of Peasants, and all intermediate men.
		Scott's career, of writing impromptu novels to buy farms with, was not of a kind to terminate voluntarily, but to accelerate itself more and more; and one sees not to what wise goal it could, in any case, have led him.
		Scott is building there, by the pleasant banks of the Tweed; he has bought and is buying land there; fast as the new gold comes in for a new Waverley Novel, or even faster, it changes itself into moory acres, into stone, and hewn or planted wood.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/carlyle-scott.html (17068 words)

	Walter Scott
		He pursued his studies and taught in New York and Pittsburg, and in the latter city in 1821 he formed an acquaintance with Thomas and Alexander Campbell, which soon became a lasting friendship.
		SCOTT, Walter, religious leader, born in Moffat, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, 31 October, 1796 ; died in Mays-lick, Kentucky, 23 April, 1861.
		Scott was deeply concerned at the opening of the civil war, and published "The Union," a pamphlet in the interest of peace (Cincinnati, 1860).
	www.famousamericans.net /walterscott (530 words)

	Walter Scott Hewitt Bio
		Walter Scott Hewitt was born Sept. 21, 1843, on Amity street, New London, Conn., and received his education in the public schools and Bartlett High School in that city.
		Palmer Hewitt, son of Charles, was the grandfather of Walter Scott Hewitt, and was married Feb. 23, 1800, to Eunice Williams, daughter of George and Nancy (Hewitt) Williams.
		PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS and CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. WALTER SCOTT HEWITT is the leading merchant of Hebron, Tolland county, and one of the prominent and influential citizens of that town.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/4791/walterscotthewitt.html (1018 words)

	[Letter] 1823 Autumn [to] Thomas Allan / Walter Scott [Sir].
		See also another letter in the collection from Scott, as well as letters from Sir Humphrey Davy, and letters to Thomas Allan.
		Scott expresses his approval of the plan to give a dinner for Sir Humphrey Davy, and will hold himself engaged for the date.
		A writer of historical romances and a poet, Scott began his literary career by traveling in his native Scotland and collecting folk ballads, the subject of his first book.
	digital.lib.lehigh.edu /remain/136 (183 words)

	Hon. Thomas Walter Scott - Canadian Confederation
		Thomas Walter Scott was premier of Saskatchewan from 1905 to 1916.
		His fondness for the Liberal Party platform let Scott into politics in 1900, when he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member for Assiniboia West.
		Lieutenant-Governor Forget's decision to name Scott as the first premier of the new province of Saskatchewan was not without controversy in Ottawa and Saskatchewan.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2407-e.html (190 words)

	Biographical Sketch of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
		Recognizing Scott's achievement in verse and prose, in 1820 King George IV made the Scottish writer a baronet--indeed, this was the first title he bestowed upon his ascension to the British throne, Scott having refused the Laureateship from the Prince Regent in 1813 and having proposed it be awarded to Robert Southey instead.
		In 1811, Scott purchased the estate of Abbotsford near Melrose on the Tweed River; by the time that he had received the title, Scott had rebuilt the manor house as a mediaeval baronial hall, in which he often entertained on a grand scale in his salad days.
		Like Shakespeare, Scott altered history for greater dramatic effect, though he used factually-drawn historical characters to colour the background; these, however, he does not focus upon, for they would limit both imaginatively attempts to portray a whole society, but remains objective in his evaluation of his characters and their actions.
	www.victorianweb.org /previctorian/scott/bio.html (2402 words)

	Walter Scott Page
		Walter Scott's Contributions to The Protestant Unionist (1844-1848).
		Walter Scott: Voice of the Golden Oracle, A Biography by Dwight E. Stevenson.
		On Walter Scott's Siege of Warren, Ohio by James G. Mitchell.
	www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/people/wscott.html (689 words)

	Walter C. Scott
		Walter attended the University of Kentucky from September 1928, age 19, to August 1931 at age 22.
		Walter moved to Arkansas for about a year with his family when he was four years old, returning in 1914.
		Walter was on the basketball team during high school and considered himself a good player.
	stithvalley.com /pappaw/walter.htm (2452 words)

	Images of the United States Capitol by Thornton, Latrobe, Bulfinch, Walter et al
		Thomas U. Walter designed this dome made of cast iron (painted to imitate marble); thus the dome was cheaper and fireproof.
		Thomas Crawford's bronze statue, Freedom, at 19½ feet, was installed at the top of the dome in 1863.
		This important building was the product of several architects in the 19th century, but even after the mid 19th century when its major outlines were finished, it has continued to be updated with technological improvements, it has been somewhat enlarged, and it has been restored at various times (including replacing eroded sandstone with Indiana limestone).
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/washdc/capitol/capitol.html (623 words)

	Princeton History
		Thomas U. Walter provided a drawing for the facade of the First Presbyterian Church.
		Walter was skilled in the several revival styles characteristic of the mid-nineteenth century.
		Walter was the son and grandson of Philadelphia builders.
	etc.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Otherdocs/history.html (2754 words)

	SR Statue of Freedom Medallion
		Freemason Thomas U. Walter, the Architect of the Capitol, first designed the dome with a classical figure of Liberty at the top.
		Thomas Crawford, an American sculptor, was working in Rome on another neoclassical sculpture for the Capitol.
		After receiving Walter's design for the dome, Crawford prepared a small model of a figure with a liberty cap, the emblem of freed slaves in ancient Greece.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /masonicmuseum/sr_statue_of_freedom_medallion.htm (446 words)

	Thomas Walter Homepage
		Walter TR (2002) Structural collapse: The sources and effects of volcano flank instability, a case study on the Canary Islands.
		Walter TR, Troll V.R. and Schmincke H.-U. (2000) Flank destabilization of cyclic caldera volcanoes.
		Walter TR, Amelung F (2004) Influence of volcanic activity at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, on earthquake occurrence in the Kaoiki Seismic Zone.
	www.geodesy.miami.edu /~twalter/publications.htm (1310 words)

	Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
		Philadelphia-born architect Thomas Ustick Walter, son of bricklayer Joseph Saunders Walter and his wife Deborah Wood Walter, has proved to be the most important American architect between Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Henry Hobson Richardson.
		Walter was elected first Vice-President of the AIA in 1857 and served as President from 1876 until 1887.
		It was in 1850, however, when Walter entered the competition for the design for the extension of the United States Capitol, that his place in American architecture was firmly established.
	www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21624 (411 words)

	The Statue of Freedom and the Story Behind It
		Shortly after he was appointed Architect of the Capitol Extensions, Thomas U Walter began studies for a new dome.
		Walter was obliged to lower the overall height of the dome in order to broaden the platform which would carry the statue.
		Walter resigned on May 26, 1865 and was succeeded by Edward Clark who completed the last details of the dome.
	www.coinmall.com /CSNA/freedom.htm (1572 words)

	Washington DC - The Capitol
		Thomas U. Walter, of Philadelphia, who had built Girard College, was secured as architect, and he retained the position until 1865.
		Walter prepared plans for a complete extension of the Capitol— new wings, new dome, and a new marble front for the middle or sandstone building, and as he knew very well that Congress would never vote the great sum required in the most economical way, that is in bulk, he first submitted the wings.
		It was proposed to construct a new and grander dome to take the place of " the small wooden thing " that surmounted the Capitol, and the way in which the first appropriation of $100,000 was obtained for the purpose is described thus: " Mr.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/washington-dc-2.shtml (468 words)

	192US363 THOMAS v U S
		George C. Thomas was indicted for violation of the internal revenue laws of the United States in that, being a broker in the city of New York, he sold certain shares of Atchison preferred stock and omitted the required revenue stamps from the memorandum of sale.
		The present case involves a stamp tax on a memorandum or contract of sale of a certificate of stock, which plaintiff in error claims was unlawfully exacted because not falling within the class of duties, imposts, and excises, and being, on the contrary, a direct tax on property.
		The tax under consideration, as we have construed the statute, may be described as an excise upon the particular privilege of doing business in a corporate capacity, i.e., with advantages which arise from corporate or quasi-corporate organization; or, when applied to insurance companies, for doing the business of such companies.
	www.michiganmilitia.org /html/lesson15.html (728 words)

	CAPITOL DOME
		In the early 1850s Thomas U. Walter, the fourth architect of the Capitol, was commissioned to design and supervise the expansion of the U.S. Capitol.
		Thomas U. Walter's accomplishment was a masterful one.
		Nodal geometry for the ribs was developed on the basis of a drawing by Walter entitled "Demonstration of Main Rib." This drawing provides dimensions to the interior and exterior edges of the rib sections.
	www.egypteng.com /history/cap.asp (3708 words)

	Thomas Walter Bickett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Walter Bickett (28 February 1869 - 22 December 1921) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1917 to 1921.
		This page was last modified 23:33, 10 May 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Walter_Bickett (59 words)

	Scott's "Thomas the Rhymer, Part Third"
		Thomas the Rhymer was renowned among his contemporaries as the author of the celebrated romance of Sir Tristrem.
		Note 3: Thomas the Rhymer, Part First and Part Second immediately preceed Part Third in Scott's The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
		Scott is not clear on how Part Second came to be in the form in which it appears in his Minstrelsy; perhaps he himself was the poetic editor.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/scottercil.htm (681 words)

	Carlyle, Thomas. 1909–14. Sir Walter Scott. Vol. 25, Part 5. The Harvard Classics
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Harvard Classics > Thomas Carlyle > Sir Walter Scott
		This essay on the father of the historical novel is one of the many works by Carlyle extolling great men and exemplifies his ethical approach to literary criticism.
	www.bartleby.com /25/5 (81 words)

	Sir Walter Scott
		Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), Literaryhistory.com: Its main value is the section entitled, "Critical Articles on Sir Walter Scott" a collection of thirteen critical essays on the novelist.
		The Life of Sir Walter Scott by S. Fowler Wright, The Poetry League: A large, two-part text which aims to revise and improve upon Lockhart's earlier treatment of the novelist.
		Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Kirjasto, Japan: A brief but detailed biography followed by a summary of Ivanhoe (1819), suggestions for further reading, and a lengthy bibliography of selected Scott texts.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/romanticism-authors/scott-sir-walter.htm (539 words)

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