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1780–1850, Vice President of the United States (1837–41), b. Kentucky, on the site of present Louisville. Admitted (1802) to the bar, he became pr...
1906–2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study mo...
1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper’s son, he grew up absorbing the music of De...
in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship....
fourth book of the New Testament. This account of Jesus’ life is clearly set off from the other three Gospels (see Synoptic Gospels), although it is...
1859–1937, American historian, b. Somerville, Mass. After teaching at Johns Hopkins, Brown, and the Univ. of Chicago he was director (1905–28) of ...