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21James Craggs the Elder — (bap. 10 June 1657 ndash; 16 March 1721), was an English politician and the father of James Craggs the Younger.A son of Anthony Craggs of Holbeck, Durham, he was baptized on 10 June 1657. After following various callings in London, Craggs, who… …
22Ward McAllister — Samuel Ward McAllister (1827–1895) was the self appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s. The Four HundredMcAllister coined the phrase the Four Hundred . According to him, this was the number of people in New York… …
23Lybster — infobox UK place country = Scotland official name= Lybster gaelic name= Liabost population = os grid reference= ND250360 latitude=58.30 longitude= 3.28 unitary scotland= Highland lieutenancy scotland= Caithness constituency westminster= Caithness …
24St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham — St Michael the Archangel in Framlingham, Suffolk, known affectionately as St Mike s, is a Church of England church dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel.Howard family monumentsThe church contains family burials of the Howards (mostly moved… …
25Angelo Carasale — Angelo Carasale. Italian architect and the one primarily responsible for the elaborate furnishings of the new San Carlo opera house in Naples in 1737. Alexandre Dumas, père, in his The Bourbons of Naples (book 1, chapter 4) recounts the well… …
26Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham — St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham Country United Kingdom Denomination Church of England Churchmanship Broad Church …
27Foscolo, Ugo — (1778–1827) A kind of Italian Shelley, Ugo Foscolo was a poet, classical translator, and patriot who was born to an Italian father and a Greek mother on the isle of Xante. He grew up in the then Venetian town of Spalato (modern day Split, in… …
28Enormoz — The NKVD code name for the Anglo American nuclear weapons program, Enormoz, which is Russian for “enormous,” reflected Moscow’s obsession with the atomic bomb. The service’s code name for the bomb itself was “Funicular.” As early as 1941, John …
29GÉNÉBRARD, GILBERT° — (1537–1597), French theologian and Hebraist. Born in Riom, Auvergne, Génébrard, a pupil of the Provençal convert Abraham de Lunel, who is said to have reverted to Judaism in his latter years, was a polymath, specializing in biblical exegesis,… …
30Stigand — died Feb. 22, 1072 Archbishop of Canterbury (1052–70). He mediated the peace between Edward the Confessor and Earl Godwine (1052) and was made archbishop of Canterbury when the Norman archbishop fled. He was not accepted until 1058, and then only …
