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Scheherazade

(Encyclopedia) Scheherazade: see Thousand and One Nights.

Arabian Nights

(Encyclopedia) Arabian Nights: see Thousand and One Nights.

Ten Thousand Islands

(Encyclopedia) Ten Thousand Islands, group of small islands in the Gulf of Mexico, off SW Fla., covered with mangrove forests and surrounded by clam beds. Most of the islands are in Everglades…

Warren, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Warren, Samuel, 1807–77, English lawyer and author. He wrote many legal texts, Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1832), and the extremely popular novel Ten Thousand a Year (…

Tompkins, Douglas Rainsford

(Encyclopedia) Tompkins, Douglas Rainsford, 1943–2015, American business executive, conservationist, and philanthropist, b. Conneaut, Ohio. In 1964, he and his first wife, Susie Tompkins Buell,…