.... With the encouragement of [[Gelett Burgess]], Irwin branched into poetry with ''The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum'' (1901), followed by ''Nautical Lays of a
...win went on to write three more Togo books, and in 1917 Hollywood followed with the silent film comedy ''Hashimura Togo''.
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...4, 1948) was an American author, writer, and journalist who was associated with the muckrakers.
With a loan from his high school teacher, Irwin entered [[Stanford University]]
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...11-SC-25389 - NARA - 55210325-cropped.jpg|thumb|right|Baker as an observer with staff officers on the Italian front in late 1918.]]
...ty of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the ''Chicago News-Record,'' where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey'
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...Low & Marston, London. Lippincott was connected as editor and contributor with various American magazines, as well as weekly and daily papers. Lippincott
She was a prominent member of the literary society of New York along with Anne Lynch Botta, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson and
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...rs posed by "colored" peoples to white civilization. Many of his books and articles were racialist and described what he saw as the peril of nonwhite immigrati
...ing to the world. Stoddard opposed miscegenation, and said that "crossings with the negro are uniformly fatal".
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...the same publication. Both articles were in early 1918 reprinted as a book with a foreword by [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
...ente's campaign to conquer the capital city of the Ottoman Empire starting with a landing on the northern shore of the Dardanelles, which went in the histo
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Scholars disagree regarding Hooker's relationship with what would later be called "Anglicanism" and the Reformed theological tradi
...n London, the Puritans had produced an "Admonition to Parliament" together with "A view of Popish Abuses" and initiated a long debate which would last beyo
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...cegenation laws in the United States. As a conservationist, he is credited with the saving of species including the American bison, helped create the Bronx
...ast with his father. He attended [[Yale University]], graduating early and with honors in 1887. He received a law degree from Columbia Law School, and prac
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...ly through his iconoclastic little magazine, ''The Lark'', and association with ''The Crowd'' literary group. He is best known as a writer of nonsense vers
...ry". He attended the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], graduating with a B.S. in 1887. After graduation, Burgess fled conservative Boston for the
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...ber 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to intro
...nquiry. His views on the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively
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...wrote the 1775 Olive Branch Petition. Both of these attempts to negotiate with King George III of Great Britain failed. Dickinson also reworked [[Thomas J
...ts passage. Nevertheless, Dickinson wrote the first draft of the 1776–1777 Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and served as a militia officer during
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...ded the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he became acquainted with the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in hi
...was an originator of the Skull & Keys society. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893, the annual alumni dinner he
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White was born in Emporia, Kansas and moved to El Dorado, Kansas, with his parents, Allen and Mary Ann Hatten White, where he spent the majority o
===What's the matter with Kansas? – 1896===
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...quisition by an American firm, the ''Britannica'' shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the North American market.
...ion with the digital multimedia encyclopaedia Microsoft Encarta, and later with the online peer-produced encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
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...ds more traditional values and repudiated Communism as an idea that breaks with the traditions of the Christian civilization.
...young nephew, whose English was better than his own. The boy made friends with my son John, while Gide and I discussed everything under the sun. Once agai
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...rd University]] and was a widely published historian. His close friendship with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] began as early as 1884 and lasted their entire lifet
...istory from an American university. Lodge maintained a lifelong friendship with Adams.
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...y after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Defeat in the war coupled with being a first-hand witness to the Paris Commune of 1871 strongly shaped Le
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...led in Massachusetts in 1638. The father moved to Iowa in 1855, and served with the 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment in the [[American Civil War]]. Charles and
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...an class of undergraduates at [[Cornell University]] and graduated in 1872 with a master's degree in botany.
...phy fit with the Stanfords' vision of a nonsectarian co-educational school with a liberal arts curriculum. Jordan quickly accepted the offer, arrived at St
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...birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton. Thereafter, she became involved with union actions, including the Bloody Sunday demonstration and the London mat
...ss, in late 1917. In the late 1920s, Besant travelled to the United States with her protégé and adopted son Jiddu Krishnamurti, who she claimed was the new
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