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Doubleday, Abner
(Encyclopedia) Doubleday, Abner, 1819–93, once credited as originator of baseball and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Saratoga co., N.Y., grad. West Point, 1842. The A. G. Mills…Quetelet, Adolphe
(Encyclopedia) Quetelet, AdolpheQuetelet, Adolpheädôlfˈ kĕtəlāˈ [key], 1796–1874, Belgian statistician and astronomer. He was the first director (1828) of the Royal Observatory at Brussels. As…Rupp, Adolph Frederick
(Encyclopedia) Rupp, Adolph Frederick, 1901–77, American college basketball coach, b. Halstead, Kans. He attended the Univ. of Kansas (grad. 1923), and began coaching at the Univ. of Kentucky in 1930…Barthou, Louis
(Encyclopedia) Barthou, LouisBarthou, Louislwē bärt&oomacr;ˈ [key], 1862–1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters. He held portfolios in numerous cabinets after 1894 and was briefly…Logos
(Encyclopedia) LogosLogoslōˈgŏs [key] [Gr.,=word], in Greek and Hebrew metaphysics, the unifying principle of the world. The central idea of the Logos is that it links God and man, hence any system…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Thief and the Honest Man
178 180 The Thief and the Honest Man A THIEF who had brought a suit against his accomplices to recover his share of the plunder taken from an Honest Man, demanded the Honest Man's attendance at…Stephen Crane: The successful man has thrust himself
The successful man has thrust himself Through the water of the years, Reeking wet with mistakes,— Bloody mistakes; Slimed with victories over the lesser, A figure thankful on the shore of…Theodore Roosevelt's “The Man with the Muck Rake” Speech
Given on Sunday, April 15, 1906, at the laying of the corner stone of the Cannon Office Building in Washington, DC. Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what…Aesop's Fables: The Man Who Lost His Spade
by Aesop The Lion, the Fox, and the StagThe Partridge and the FowlerThe Man Who Lost His Spade A Man was engaged in digging over his vineyard, and one day on coming to work he missed his…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Thief and the Honest Man
The Disinterested Arbiter The Dutiful Son The Thief and the Honest Man A THIEF who had brought a suit against his accomplices to recover his share of the plunder taken from an Honest…Trending
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