Obituary.] SIR U'ILLIAM HENRY WHITE. 323 OBITUARY. SIR WILLIAM H E N R Y WHITE,l K.C.B., F.R.S., formerly Director of NavalConstructionandAssistantController of the Royal Navy, died suddenly on the 27th February, 1913, in Westminster Hospital, where he was brought, suffering from a...
It was in New York that Copley, who exhibited with Alexander Iolas throughout this period, perfected his bold, forthright style, assisted by his switch from oil to acrylic paint. New York was also where he found himself in the middle of a now-legendary social scene (Andy Warhol wrote in ...
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And from the “Remember it’s 1926 Department,” we have thisNew Yorkerobituary for famed Ringling circus freakZip the Pinhead. Note that Zip was “owned” by aCaptain O.K. White: Zip’s real name wasWilliam Henry Johnson.Thought to have been born with microcephaly (those with the conditi...
William Campbell Steere, born on November 4, 1907 in southern Michigan, comes from a long line of pioneering-naturalist Irish-Quaker ancestors. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Beal Steere, was a professor of zoology and paleontology at the University of
Bowie:He’s incredibly sexy and very virile. I also find him incredibly motherly and maternal clutched into his bosom of ethnic blues. He’s a white boy from Dagenham trying his damnedest to be ethnic. You see, trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to ...
I gave it to be published on the Internet some years ago, and after Milton’s passing, I had it published in The Statesman on the same day as my obituary of him. It makes fascinating reading, especially about Mahalanobis and Shenoy, of how what Bhagwati wishes to call “the policy ...
WHITE-TAILED KITE * * * * * THE WHOOPING CRANE.–This splendid bird will almost certainly be the next North American species to be totally exterminated. It is the only new world rival of the numerous large and showy cranes of the old world; for the sandhill crane is not in the same...
(1845–69) to regret that he did not draw on his experience to write, like Gilbert Burnet, a history of his times. His obituary notice (Historical Register, 1723) referred thus to his resignation in 1718: ‘By his wisdom and moderation he had gained abundance of friends to the ki...
One obituary notes the importance of religion in William Smith's life: "This man, so faithful to his profession of Christianity, was born in Oxfordshire, England, in the year 1821. He came to Canada with his parents when about eight years of age, and settled in Duke St., Toronto, where...