Senate Years of Service: 1901-1913Party: RepublicanGAMBLE, Robert Jackson, (brother of John Rankin Gamble and father of Ralph Abernethy Gamble), a Representative and a Senator from South…
by Catherine McNiff adaptation (n.) Modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment: The wombat's long claws are an…
(Encyclopedia) clan, social group based on actual or alleged unilineal descent from a common ancestor. Such groups have been known in all parts of the world and include some that claim the parentage…
(Encyclopedia) Hergé, pseud. of Georges Remi, 1907–83, Belgian cartoonist, creator of the cartoon character Tintin. The boy reporter and his faithful fox terrier Milou (Snowy in English translations…
(Encyclopedia) Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden, 1714–94, British jurist. Appointed (1761) chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned wide popularity as a result of his ruling in Entick v.…
(Encyclopedia) Calderón de la Barca, PedroCalderón de la Barca, Pedropāˈᵺrō käldārōnˈ dā lä bärˈkä [key], 1600–1681, Spanish dramatist, last important figure of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid.…
(Encyclopedia) Bentley, Richard, 1662–1742, English critic and philologist. Generally considered the greatest of English classical scholars, he was also an Anglican clergyman who became (1717) Regius…
