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101Maupassant, Guy de — ▪ French writer Introduction in full Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant born August 5, 1850, Château de Miromesnil?, near Dieppe, France died July 6, 1893, Paris French naturalist writer of short stories and novels who is by general… …
102photography, history of — Introduction method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the… …
103Planck, Max — ▪ German physicist Introduction in full Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck born April 23, 1858, Kiel, Schleswig [Germany] died Oct. 4, 1947, Göttingen, W.Ger. theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize for… …
104Thomas Jefferson: A Firebell in the Night — ▪ Primary Source The Missouri Compromise, by the terms of which slavery was henceforth excluded from the territories north of latitude 36°30 (the southern boundary of Missouri), alarmed Thomas Jefferson, as he told John Holmes in… …
105Family — • In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage …
106Huron Indians — • If language may be taken as a fair criterion to go by, the Hurons proper were the original stock from which sprang all the branches of the great Iroquoian family, whether included in the primitive federation of the Five Nations, or standing… …
107Claude-Adrien Nonnotte — Claude Adrien Nonnotte † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Claude Adrien Nonnotte Controversialist; b. in Besançon, 29 July, 1711; d. there, 3 September, 1793. At nineteen he entered the Society of Jesus and preached at Amiens, Versailles, and… …
108Nicolas Coeffeteau — Nicolas Coeffeteau † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Nicolas Coeffeteau Preacher and controversialist, born 1574, at Château du Loir, province of Maine, France; died Paris, 21 April, 1623. Ha entered the Dominican convent of Sens, 1588, and… …
109The Brehon Laws — The Brehon Laws † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Brehon Laws Brehon law is the usual term for Irish native law, as administered in Ireland down to almost the middle of the seventeenth century, and in fact amongst the native Irish until… …
110clinically — adverb In a clinical manner; dispassionately or analytically …
