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Pausanias, geographer of ancient Greece
(Encyclopedia) Pausanias, fl. a.d. 150, traveler and geographer, probably b. Lydia. His Description of Greece is an invaluable source for the topography, monuments, and legends of ancient Greece.…Royce, Josiah
(Encyclopedia) Royce, Josiah, 1855–1916, American philosopher, b. California, grad. Univ. of California, 1873. After studying in Germany and at Johns Hopkins, he returned to California to teach (1878…Peters, Samuel
(Encyclopedia) Peters, Samuel, 1735–1826, American clergyman and historian, b. Hebron, Conn. Because of his Loyalist sympathies, he fled to England in 1774. There he wrote for English periodicals and…Dionysius Periegetes
(Encyclopedia) Dionysius PeriegetesDionysius Periegetesdīənĭshˈēəs [key]Dionysius Periegetespĕˌrēəjēˈtēz [key], fl. c.300? b.c., Greek poet. He wrote the poem Description of the Inhabited Earth,…Alecsandri, Vasile
(Encyclopedia) Alecsandri, VasileAlecsandri, Vasileväsēˈlē älĕksänˈdrē [key], 1821–90, Romanian poet, dramatist, and statesman. He was (1858) provisional foreign minister and subsequently served in…antithesis
(Encyclopedia) antithesisantithesisăntĭthˈĭsĭs [key], a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. Parallelism…Addison, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Addison, Thomas, 1793–1860, English physician, b. near Newcastle, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh (M.D., 1815). In 1837 he became a physician at Guy's Hospital, London, where he conducted…Widsith
(Encyclopedia) WidsithWidsithwĭdˈsĭth [key], 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book. It is an account of the wanderings of a Germanic minstrel and of the legends he relates. The poem…Spyri, Johanna
(Encyclopedia) Spyri, JohannaSpyri, Johannayōhänˈä shpēˈrē [key], 1827–1901, Swiss author. Her many stories of child life in Switzerland include Heidi (1880; tr. 1884), a classic among children's…Achenwall, Gottfried
(Encyclopedia) Achenwall, GottfriedAchenwall, Gottfriedgôtˈfrēt äkhˈənväl [key], 1719–72, German statistician and political scientist. He used the term Statistik for the first time in his…Trending
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