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Perfectionists

(Encyclopedia)Perfectionists: see Noyes, John Humphrey. ...

Lomax, Alan

(Encyclopedia)Lomax, Alan: see under Lomax, John Avery. ...

Alasco, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Alasco or à Lasco, Johannes: see Laski, John. ...

homolosine

(Encyclopedia)homolosine həmŏlˈəsĭn, –sīnˌ [key], map projection: see Goode, John Paul. ...

Bickerstaff, Isaac

(Encyclopedia)Bickerstaff, Isaac, pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift and later by Richard Steele in the Tatler. ...

Grocyn, William

(Encyclopedia)Grocyn, William grōˈsĭn [key], 1446?–1519, English humanist. An associate of John Colet and Thomas Linacre, he reputedly introduced the teaching of Greek at Oxford. ...

Foote, Arthur William

(Encyclopedia)Foote, Arthur William, 1853–1937, American organist, teacher, and composer, b. Salem, Mass.; pupil of J. K. Paine at Harvard. He was organist (1878–1910) at the First Unitarian Church in Boston, w...

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