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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary
(Encyclopedia) Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot CaryAgassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Caryăgˈəsē [key], 1822–1907, American author and educator, b. Boston. In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, and together they…Cary, Lucius
(Encyclopedia) Cary, Lucius: see Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount.Cary, Joyce
(Encyclopedia) Cary, Joyce (Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary), 1888–1957, English author. From 1910 to 1920 he served as an administrator and soldier in Nigeria. Several of his early works, including Mister…Cary, William Sterling
(Encyclopedia) Cary, William Sterling, 1927-2021, American religious leader, b. Plainfield, N.J., Morehouse College (B.A., 1949), Union…Jewett, Sarah Orne
(Encyclopedia) Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849–1909, American novelist and short-story writer, b. South Berwick, Maine. Her studies of small-town New England life are perceptive, sympathetic, and gently…Grant, Cary
(Encyclopedia) Grant, Cary, 1904–86, British movie actor, b. Bristol as Archibald Alexander Leach. He began on stage in 1923 and made his first film in 1932. An almost immediate hit, Grant was a…Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount
(Encyclopedia) Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d ViscountFalkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscountfôkˈlənd [key], 1610?–1643, English statesman and literary figure. He entered Parliament in 1640, where he opposed…Cary Grant
Name at birth: Archibald Alexander LeachCary Grant was a leading Hollywood box-office star for three decades, and remains the silver screen's definition of the quick-witted and debonair gent. Cary…Cary, Henry Francis
(Encyclopedia) Cary, Henry Francis, 1772–1844, English translator. A graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford, he was assistant librarian in the British Museum from 1826 to 1837. He translated…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's Evidence
by Lewis Carroll Who Stole the Tarts?Alice's Evidence 'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up…Trending
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