Search results for "Henry Wood" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • constituents from plant matter (such as wood) or animal matter (such as ... Historically, wood charcoal was used as a constituent of gunpowder ...
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  • shaped erect cones, winged seeds, and fragrant wood. evergreens and include many with scented wood, such as the genera Calocedrus ...
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  • English and this work became an example for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ... his sensitive "Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell" for two counter ...
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  • Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Professor Sir Henry Chadwick (Dean Emeritus of ... into the stone, which could have held a wood trunk of up to 2.5 meters ...
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  • Major Generals Charles Cornwallis and Sir Henry Clinton, the British force ... Henry B. Livingston was dispatched with 200 Continental troops to ...
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  • Sir William Henry Bragg (July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English ... receiving an inheritance, and his wife Mary Wood, daughter of a clergyman. ...
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  • in one cognition" (A77/B103, Guyer/Wood Translation). On Kant's ... In more recent years, interpreters of Kant (including Henry Allison ...
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was ... the Philippines (succeeding General Leonard Wood), an office he held from 1927 ...
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  • the floating world”) masters of the color wood-block print. His subjects ... them even after he had become an acclaimed wood-block print artist. In 1832 ...
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  • and close friend of prominent men, including Henry James. ... photographs that he had purchased or that Henry Adams had taken for him. ...
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  • notably roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood, but only a few have been ... dye, mauveine, was discovered by William Henry Perkin in 1856. Many thousands ...
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  • vicar, and the two become friends. When Sir Henry Wotton, a poet and provost ... angler that he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Wotton, a poet and provost ...
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  • and the Americans Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau all found the ... century music with composers such as Henry Cowell, who experimented ...
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  • Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986 ... and most of his wealth went to endow the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues ...
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  • in which he stated that should his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, die without ... Physicist Joseph Henry was selected as the first Secretary of the ...
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  • * Burton, Richard F., Ernest Henry Griset, and wood engraver Dalziel ... * Prinsep, James, Edward Thomas, and Henry Thoby Prinsep. 1858. Essays ...
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  • for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be the ... and unjust exactions of money which King Henry VII was demanding from his ...
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  • during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He is ... one of the students. Coincidentally, King Henry VIII was visiting the county ...
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  • from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 to the election of ... In 1892, a Protestant minister, Charles Henry Parkhurst, made a widely ...
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  • William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, and Elizabeth Barbara ... on which it was based. Leonora by William Henry Fry, the first opera composed ...
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