Search results for "Henry Wood" - New World Encyclopedia
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- constituents from plant matter (such as wood) or animal matter (such as ... Historically, wood charcoal was used as a constituent of gunpowder ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- shaped erect cones, winged seeds, and fragrant wood. evergreens and include many with scented wood, such as the genera Calocedrus ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- English and this work became an example for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ... his sensitive "Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell" for two counter ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Professor Sir Henry Chadwick (Dean Emeritus of ... into the stone, which could have held a wood trunk of up to 2.5 meters ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- Major Generals Charles Cornwallis and Sir Henry Clinton, the British force ... Henry B. Livingston was dispatched with 200 Continental troops to ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Sir William Henry Bragg (July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English ... receiving an inheritance, and his wife Mary Wood, daughter of a clergyman. ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:22, 17 April 2023
- in one cognition" (A77/B103, Guyer/Wood Translation). On Kant's ... In more recent years, interpreters of Kant (including Henry Allison ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was ... the Philippines (succeeding General Leonard Wood), an office he held from 1927 ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- the floating world”) masters of the color wood-block print. His subjects ... them even after he had become an acclaimed wood-block print artist. In 1832 ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- and close friend of prominent men, including Henry James. ... photographs that he had purchased or that Henry Adams had taken for him. ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- notably roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood, but only a few have been ... dye, mauveine, was discovered by William Henry Perkin in 1856. Many thousands ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- vicar, and the two become friends. When Sir Henry Wotton, a poet and provost ... angler that he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Wotton, a poet and provost ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- and the Americans Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau all found the ... century music with composers such as Henry Cowell, who experimented ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986 ... and most of his wealth went to endow the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- in which he stated that should his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, die without ... Physicist Joseph Henry was selected as the first Secretary of the ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- * Burton, Richard F., Ernest Henry Griset, and wood engraver Dalziel ... * Prinsep, James, Edward Thomas, and Henry Thoby Prinsep. 1858. Essays ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be the ... and unjust exactions of money which King Henry VII was demanding from his ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He is ... one of the students. Coincidentally, King Henry VIII was visiting the county ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 to the election of ... In 1892, a Protestant minister, Charles Henry Parkhurst, made a widely ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, and Elizabeth Barbara ... on which it was based. Leonora by William Henry Fry, the first opera composed ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- Although clay and wood were probably the earliest mediums of bas-relief ... the Renaissance it was the custom to tint wood, terracotta, and stucco, but ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- in Montparnasse and promoted by art dealer Henry Kahnweiler, becoming popular ... but they also used wallpaper, paper with a wood print, advertisements, or ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry ... of firewood, and expresses affection for wood and fire. ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- and editing other music, notably that of Henry Purcell and the English Hymnal ... as a tribute to the conductor Sir Henry Wood); and the Symphony No. ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- of N. M. Karamzin. Trans. and Intr. by Henry M. Nebel, Jr. Evanston, IL: ... * Nebel, Henry M., Jr. 1967. N. M. Karamzin: A Russian Sentimentalist ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- within four bars," said the conductor Sir Henry Wood. This allowed his accompanist to maintain strict tempo while Ysaÿe freely improvised dynamic ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 18:51, 11 September 2023
- started in North America. Being made of wood, they decay easily in the ... from tourist trinkets to masterful works in wood, stone, blown and etched glass ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- * Madonna and Child with St Francis (1514)—Oil on wood, 299 × 245 cm ... John the Baptist (1514–1515)—Oil on wood panel, 45 × 35.5 cm, National ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- the American Civil War, and grandson, Henry Adams, a noted historian ... Adams ran against three other candidates--Speaker of the House Henry ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- guide is the Handbook of Epoxy Resins, by Henry Lee and Kris Neville. Originally ... They are exceptional adhesives for wood, metal, glass, stone, and ...16 KB (2,301 words) - 19:13, 13 February 2024
- left|200 px|A Wichita camp. Photographed by Henry Peabody, ca. 1904.]] ... with early Spanish exploration.W. Raymond Wood, Archaeology of the Great ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- of the Accession Day tilts of King Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James ... and the lances are usually made of light wood and prepared so that they ...13 KB (2,087 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- textiles and wrought iron. Even Japanese wood-block prints inspired the ... Japanese wood-block prints, with their curved lines, patterned surfaces ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- thick coating of earth. The most common wood used was Cottonwood. This ... * Carleton, James Henry. The Prairie Logbooks. Lincoln, NE: University ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- === Wood === [[Image:Chur Cathedral Switzerland Altarpiece.jpg|thumb ... Because the nature of wood lends itself to easy working it has been ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- and the writers, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Henry James. ... His Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood is a rendering of his good ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Jacob Schlager. Schlager and his partner Henry William Brandt owned and ... G. Tracy Rogers. He also invented a better wood-bending machine and a belt ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- "high" and bois, meaning "wood." A musician who plays ... The modern oboe is most commonly made from grenadilla wood (African ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- *Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon: was both a minor cause celebre at ... *Abraham, Henry Julian, and Henry Julian Abraham. Justices, Presidents ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- :Lone in the light of a magical wood, :Soul-deep in visions that poppy ... :In that magical wood in the land of sleep. (Excerpt from Song of a Dream) ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The yeti was first introduced to the Western world in 1921, by Henry ... The hair was analyzed by Frederic Wood Jones, an expert in human and ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862), born David Henry ... David Henry Thoreau was born to John and Cynthia Thoreau in Concord ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- and occasionally by the distillation of wood. Accordingly, it is known ... * McDermott, Henry J. 2004. Air Monitoring for Toxic Exposures, 2nd ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- "I accordingly built a mound out of cord wood filled in the center ... History of the American West. Owl Books: Henry Holt, 1970. ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- was admitted to communion. The prayer was, Henry Wace notes, a strange one ... * 'Ata u-Rahman, Muhammad. Jesus: Prophet of Islam, Wood Darling ...24 KB (3,928 words) - 02:41, 15 August 2023
- and his senior local commander, General Sir Henry Rawlinson, GOC Fourth British ... the British Fourth Army, Lieutenant-General Henry Rawlinson, had issued orders ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- personal friend of American physicist Joseph Henry). Morse and Gale ... age of eighty, and was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- moved to Westminster, probably under Henry II, the book went with it ... *Wood, Michael. The Domesday Quest: In Search of the Roots of England ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Born in London, the son of an architect, he was to have been named ... in common with that of Lambert Strether in Henry James's The Ambassadors ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Pot stills made of various materials (wood, clay, stainless steel) are ... The destructive distillation of wood to give methanol is the root ...29 KB (4,405 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
