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Map, Walter

(Encyclopedia) Map or Mapes, Walter, c.1140–c.1210, English author, b. Wales. A favorite of Henry II, he traveled with the king and became archdeacon of Oxford. The one work indubitably his, De nugis…

Galiani, Ferdinando

(Encyclopedia) Galiani, FerdinandoGaliani, Ferdinandofārdēnänˈdō gälyäˈnē [key], 1728–87, Italian economist, educated for the church. As a very young man he wrote Della moneta [on money] (1750),…

Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of

(Encyclopedia) Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier, b. Ditchley, Oxfordshire. Most notorious and dissolute of the Restoration rakes, he lost the favor of Charles II…

Dazai, Osamu

(Encyclopedia) Dazai, OsamuDazai, Osamuōsäˈm&oomacr; däˈzī [key], pseudonym of Shuji TsushimaDazai, Osamush&oomacr;ˈjē ts&oomacr;ˈshĭmä [key], 1909–48, Japanese novelist. Considered one…

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of

(Encyclopedia) Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of, 1694–1773, English statesman and author. A noted wit and orator, his long public career, begun in 1715, included an ambassadorship to…

Sei Shonagon

(Encyclopedia) Sei ShonagonSei Shonagonsĕē shōˈnäˈgōn [key], c.966?-?, Japanese poet and essayist of the mid-Heian period. She is best known for her Makura no sôshi [pillow book], a collection of…

Brewer's: Wit

To wit, viz. that is to say. A translation of the French savoir. Wit is the Anglo-Saxon witan (to know). I divide my property into four parts,…

Brewer's: Wits

Five wits. (See under Five.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894WitchWit A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…

Jehovah's Witnesses

This sect grew out of the International Bible Students Association, founded in 1872 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916). After intensive study of the Bible, he…