Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

Terms from various encyclopedias and reference books.

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Encyclopedias

Physicist and mathematician, born at Dalkeith; educated in Edinburgh; became senior wrangler at Cambridge, and Smith's prizeman in 1852; was in 1854 elected professor of Mathematics at Belfast, and ...

Balfour Stewart

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Physicist, born in Edinburgh; after finishing his university curriculum went to Australia and engaged for some time in business; returned to England; became director at Kew Observatory, and professor ...

Smoky City

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Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, from the effect produced by the bituminous coal used in the manufactories.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Poet and prose writer, born in London, son of Admiral Swinburne; educated at Balliol College, Oxford, went to Florence and spent some time there; his first productions were plays, two of them ...

William Wetmore Story

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Poet and sculptor, son of preceding; born 1819.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Poet, born at Bishop. Middleham, in Durham; after a nine months' unhappy experience as a midshipman obtained his discharge, and having acted for some years as clerk in the Storekeeper-General's ...

Earl of Stirling William Alexander

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Poet, born at Menstrie, near Alloa; was for a time tutor to the family of Argyll; was the author of sonnets called "Aurora," some curious tragedies, and an "Elegy on the Death of Prince Henry"; he ...