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111veneer — veneerer, n. /veuh near /, n. 1. a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood. 2. any of the thin layers of wood glued together to form plywood. 3. Building Trades. a facing of a certain material applied to a different one… …
112Bernadette of Lourdes, Saint — orig. Marie Bernarde Soubirous born Jan. 7, 1844, Lourdes, France died April 16, 1879, Nevers; canonized Dec. 8, 1933; feast day April 16, but sometimes February 18 in France French visionary. The daughter of a miller, she had a poverty stricken… …
113Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. — born March 8, 1841, Boston, Mass. died March 6, 1935, Washington, D.C. U.S. jurist, legal historian, and philosopher. He was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of a Massachusetts supreme court justice. As an officer …
114Ekman, V Walfrid — ▪ Swedish scientist born May 3, 1874, Stockholm died March 9, 1954, Gostad, near Stockaryd, Swed. Swedish physical oceanographer best known for his studies of the dynamics of ocean currents. The common oceanographic terms Ekman layer, denoting… …
115Frankland, Agnes Surriage, Lady — ▪ American colonial figure née Agnes Surriage born spring 1726, Marblehead, Mass. [U.S.] died April 23, 1783, Chichester, Eng. American colonial figure whose romantic ascent from humble beginnings to British nobility made her the subject… …
116Harding, Warren G. — ▪ president of United States in full Warren Gamaliel Harding born November 2, 1865, Caledonia [now Blooming Grove], Ohio, U.S. died August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California 29th president of the United States (1921–23). Pledging a nostalgic… …
117Latin literature — Introduction the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …
118Schumann-Heink, Ernestine — ▪ American singer née Ernestine Rössler or Ernestine Roessler born June 15, 1861, Liben, near Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic] died Nov. 17, 1936, Hollywood, Calif., U.S. Austrian contralto who was one of the… …
119Asia Minor — • The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
120Buckfast Abbey — • Foundation date unknown, but long before the Norman Conquest Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Buckfast Abbey Buckfast Abbey …
