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Marblehead

(Encyclopedia) Marblehead, town (1990 pop. 19,971), Essex co., NE Mass., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1649. A fishing village for many years, Marblehead became a resort in the 19th cent.; it is…

Lincoln, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733–1810, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Hingham, Mass. He served under Horatio Gates in the Saratoga campaign before becoming (1778) commander in the South. In…

Lane, Fitz Hugh

(Encyclopedia) Lane, Fitz Hugh, 1804–65, American painter and printmaker, b. Gloucester, Mass. A painter of ships and coastal panoramas, Lane is most notable as a leading figure in American luminism…

Larkin, Thomas Oliver

(Encyclopedia) Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802–58, American merchant and diplomatic agent, b. Charlestown, Mass. He settled (1832) in Monterey, Calif., where he became a successful merchant trading with…

Lawrence, Amos Adams

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814–86, American colonizer and philanthropist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1835; nephew of Abbott Lawrence. A prosperous commission merchant and manufacturer of…

Katayama, Tetsu

(Encyclopedia) Katayama, TetsuKatayama, Tetsutĕtˈs&oobreve; kätäyäˈmä [key], 1887–1978, Japanese statesman. He was a founder (1926) of the Social Democratic party. When the party was suppressed…

Jungius, Joachim

(Encyclopedia) Jungius, JoachimJungius, Joachimyōˈäkhĭm y&oobreve;ngˈē&oobreve;s [key], 1587–1657, German mathematician, logician, and systematizer of natural history. In 1608 he made his…

MacArthur, Arthur

(Encyclopedia) MacArthur, Arthur, 1845–1912, American army officer, b. Springfield, Mass.; father of Douglas MacArthur. Raised in Wisconsin, he served with the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers in the Civil…

design

(Encyclopedia) design, plan or arrangement of line, form, mass, color, and space in a pattern. A design may be created to serve a functional purpose as in architecture and in industrial designs or…

Deerfield, towns, United States

(Encyclopedia) Deerfield. 1 Village (2020 pop. 18,456), Cook and Lake counties, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1903. The huge Sara Lee…