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Pacific scandal
(Encyclopedia)Pacific scandal, 1873, a major event in Canadian political history. Charges were made in Parliament that the Conservative administration of Sir John A. Macdonald had accepted campaign funds from Sir H...Ross, Harold Wallace
(Encyclopedia)Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892–1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded the New Yorker in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work...Chianti, Monti
(Encyclopedia)Chianti, Monti mōnˈtē kyänˈtē [key], small range of the Apennines, c.15 mi (25 km) long, in Tuscany, central Italy, W of the Arno River; rises to c.3,000 ft (915 m). The celebrated Chianti wines...Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Lockheed, Malcolm
(Encyclopedia)Lockheed, Malcolm: see under Lockheed, Allan. ...Ligurian Sea
(Encyclopedia)Ligurian Sea lĭgyo͝orˈēən [key], arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Ligurian coast (Italian Riviera) and the islands of Corsica and Elba; the Gulf of Genoa is its northernmost part. The se...Della-Cruscans
(Encyclopedia)Della-Cruscans dĕlˈə-krŭsˈkənz [key] [from the Accademia della Crusca, founded for linguistic purity, Florence, 16th cent.], a group of English poets living in Italy at the end of the 18th cent....Fiesole
(Encyclopedia)Fiesole fyāˈzōlā [key], town, Tuscany, central Italy. The villas and gardens of this tour...Tiber
(Encyclopedia)Tiber tīˈbər [key], Ital. Tevere, Latin Tiberis, river, 251 mi (404 km) long, rising in the Etruscan Apennines, central Italy. It flows generally S across Tuscany, Umbria, and N Latium, then SW thr...Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power)
(Encyclopedia)Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power), 1803–78, American poet, b. Providence, R.I. In 1828 she married a Boston lawyer, John W. Whitman; after his death (1833) she returned to Providence and devoted herself ...Browse by Subject
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