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Josiah MASTERS, Congress, NY (1763-1822)

MASTERS Josiah , a Representative from New York; born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Conn., November 22, 1763; was graduated from Yale College in 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar and…

Victoria, Tomás Luis de

(Encyclopedia) Victoria, Tomás Luis deVictoria, Tomás Luis detōmäsˈ l&oomacr;ēsˈ dā vēktōˈryä [key], c.1548–1611, Spanish composer. He went to Rome in 1565 to study for the priesthood at the…

Cory, William Johnson

(Encyclopedia) Cory, William Johnson, 1823–92, English poet and classicist. He was assistant master at Eton from 1845 to 1872. His verse, of which Ionica (1858) is the best known, consists primarily…

Birmingham-Southern College

(Encyclopedia) Birmingham-Southern College, at Birmingham, Ala.; United Methodist; coeducational; formed 1918 by the merger of Southern Univ. (chartered 1856; opened 1859 at Greensboro, Ala.) and…

Judas of Galilee

(Encyclopedia) Judas of Galilee, fl. a.d. 6, a leader of the Zealots, a radical revolutionary Jewish sect. He raised an insurrection against the taxation census of Cyrenius (a.d. 6) on the grounds…

Rabboni

(Encyclopedia) RabboniRabbonirăbōˈnī [key] [Aram.,=my master], a variant of Rabbi, a title of respect to teachers. It is addressed to Jesus in the Gospels of St. Mark and St. John.

Koetsu Hon'ami

(Encyclopedia) Koetsu Hon'amiKoetsu Hon'amikōˈĕts&oomacr;ˌ hônäˈmē [key], 1558–1637, Japanese artist, poet, calligrapher, tea master, and landscape gardener. Considered one of the greatest and…

North, Roger

(Encyclopedia) North, Roger, 1653–1734, English biographer. A lawyer, he wrote excellent biographies of his brothers: Francis North, Lord Guilford, Keeper of the Great Seal (1742); Dudley North, a…