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Thomas Wharton PHILLIPS, Jr., Congress, PA (1874-1956)
PHILLIPS Thomas Wharton, Jr. , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pa., November 21, 1874; attended the common schools; was graduated from Phillips Academy,…Sloan, John
(Encyclopedia) Sloan, John, 1871–1951, American painter and etcher, b. Lock Haven, Pa. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked for 12 years as an illustrator on the…Kokoschka, Oskar
(Encyclopedia) Kokoschka, OskarKokoschka, Oskarôsˈkär kōkôshˈkä [key], 1886–1980, Austrian expressionist painter and writer. After teaching at the art academy in Dresden (1920–24), Kokoschka traveled…Lean, Sir David
(Encyclopedia) Lean, Sir David, 1908–91, English film director, producer, and scriptwriter, b. Croyden, England. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, and had become one of Britain's most…O'Neill, Margaret
(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Margaret (Peggy O'Neill), c.1796–1879, wife of John Henry Eaton, U.S. secretary of war under President Andrew Jackson. She was the daughter of a Washington tavern keeper and…brasses, monumental
(Encyclopedia) brasses, monumental, or sepulchral brasses, memorials to the dead, in use in churches on the Continent and in England in the 13th cent. and for several centuries following. They are…Sheba, region, Arabian Peninsula
(Encyclopedia) Sheba, biblical name of a region, called in Arabic Saba, of S Arabia, including present-day Yemen and the Hadhramaut. Its inhabitants were called Sabaeans or Sabeans. According to some…rhododendron
(Encyclopedia) rhododendronrhododendronrōˌdədĕnˈdrən [key] [Gr.,=rose tree], any plant of the genus Rhododendron, shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family) found chiefly in mountainous areas of…Hyperion, in astronomy
(Encyclopedia) HyperionHyperionhīpērˈēən [key], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn VII (or S7), Hyperion is the largest highly irregular (…lupus
(Encyclopedia) lupuslupusl&oomacr;ˈpəs [key], noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances. In lupus, known medically as…Trending
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