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Emigrant Aid Company
(Encyclopedia) Emigrant Aid Company, organization formed in 1854 to promote organized antislavery immigration to the Kansas territory from the Northeast. Eli Thayer conceived the plan as early as Feb…Thayer, Eli
(Encyclopedia) Thayer, Eli, 1819–99, American abolitionist, b. Medon, Mass. He was a Free-Soiler in the Massachusetts legislature (1853–54), organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company for sending…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…Callimachus, fl. c.280–45 b.c., Hellenistic Greek poet and critic
(Encyclopedia) Callimachus, fl. c.280–45 b.c., Hellenistic Greek poet and critic, b. Cyrene. Educated at Athens, he taught before obtaining work in the Alexandrian library. There he drew up a catalog…The Koran/Sura LIX — The Emigration
Sura LIX — The EmigrationMedina — 24 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful ALL that is in the Heavens and all that is on the Earth praiseth God! He, the Mighty, the Wise…Pearl, The
(Encyclopedia) Pearl, The, one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author…Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Lewis CarrollContentsPhantasmagoriaCANTO I—The TrystyngCANTO II—Hys Fyve RulesCANTO III—ScarmogesCANTO IV—Hys NourytureCANTO V—ByckermentCANTO VI—DyscomfytureCANTO VII—Sad SouvenaunceEchoesA…Växjö
(Encyclopedia) VäxjöVäxjövĕkˈshöˌ [key], city (1990 pop. 46,740), capital of Kronoberg co., S Sweden. Manufactures include paper, textiles, furniture, matches, and machines. An old city, Växjö became…Robinson, Charles
(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Charles, 1818–94, American politician, first governor of the state of Kansas (1861–63), b. Hardwick, Mass. He studied medicine and in 1849 he joined the gold rush to…Oliver, Mary
(Encyclopedia) Oliver, Mary, 1935–2019, American poet, b. Cleveland, Ohio, studied Ohio State Univ., Vassar. She published her first collection of poems, No Voyage and Other Poems, in 1963. She was a…Trending
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