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William Gilbert
In 1600 William Gilbert published De Magnete ("On Magnets"), one of the first scientific books in the English language and the first to suggest that the earth was a big magnet. A prominent physician…William Blake
William Blake was an English poet and artist whose illuminated prints included Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1792) and Milton (1811). Blake began writing…William Stafford
Poet William Stafford didn't begin publishing poems until he was nearly 50 years old, and his first major collection, Traveling Through the Dark, won the 1963 National Book Award. Stafford grew up…Maisie Williams
Name at birth: Margaret Constance WilliamsMaisie Williams is the young English actress who plays Arya Stark, a principal character in the cable TV series Game of Thrones. Maisie Williams got the…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Harp
The HarpOne musician is sure, His wisdom will not fail, He has not tasted wine impure, Nor bent to passion frail. Age cannot cloud his memory, Nor grief untune his voice, Ranging down the…Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr., 1908–2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a…Frederick Henry
(Encyclopedia) Frederick Henry, 1584–1647, prince of Orange; son of William the Silent by Louise de Coligny. He became stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands upon the death (1625) of…Temple, William
(Encyclopedia) Temple, William, 1881–1944, archbishop of York (1929–42) and archbishop of Canterbury (1942–44); son of Frederick Temple. At Balliol College, Oxford, he became (1904) president of the…Wilhelm
(Encyclopedia) Wilhelm. For German rulers thus named, use William.William WILLIAMS, Congress, NY (1815-1876)
WILLIAMS William , a Representative from New York; born in Bolton, Conn., September 6, 1815; received a common-school education; clerk in a bank in Windham, Conn.; moved to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1838…Trending
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