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Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of
(Encyclopedia)Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of bûrˈkənhĕdˌ [key], 1872–1930, British statesman and jurist. He was called to the bar in 1899 and entered the House of Commons as a Conservative in...Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter
(Encyclopedia)Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter, 1809–89, American educator and mathematician, b. Sheffield, Mass., grad. Yale, 1828. After tutoring at Yale and teaching in institutions for the deaf and mute, he...Bentinck, Lord William George Frederick Cavendish
(Encyclopedia)Bentinck, Lord William George Frederick Cavendish, 1802–48, English politician and sportsman, known as Lord George. Although he entered Parliament in 1826, he was known primarily for his horse-racin...Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin)
(Encyclopedia)Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), 1838–1927, and Tennessee Claflin, 1846–1923, American journalists and lecturers, b. Ohio, sisters noted for their beauty and wildly eccentric behavior. As children th...Schomberg, Frederick Herman, 1st duke of
(Encyclopedia)Schomberg, Frederick Herman, 1st duke of schŏmˈbərg [key], Ger. Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, 1615–90, German soldier of fortune. After serving on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years War,...Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway
(Encyclopedia)Frederick IV, 1671–1730, king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730), son and successor of Christian V. He allied himself (1699) with Augustus II of Poland and Saxony and with Peter I of Russia against...Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th earl of
(Encyclopedia)Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th earl of, 1748–1825, British statesman. A member of the distinguished Howard family, he went to the American colonies on an unsuccessful peace mission (1778) and serve...Locke, Alain LeRoy
(Encyclopedia)Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1885–1954, American writer, educator, philosopher, and cultural critic, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard (A.B., 1907; Ph.D., 1918), first African-American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford ...Frederick Augustus I, 1670–1733, elector of Saxony
(Encyclopedia)Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony: see Augustus II, king of Poland. ...Browse by Subject
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