Buonarroti
MICHAEL ANGELO. See ANGELO.
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Single-source entries: B (164)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Buonarroti, Burbage, Burbot.
Burbage
RICHARD, an English actor and contemporary of Shakespeare, was the son of James Burbage, also an actor, and the first builder of a theater in England, born about 1567. He was a member of the same company as Shakespeare, Fletcher, Hemming, Condell, and others, and filled all the greatest parts of the contemporary stage in turn. He was the original Hamlet, Lear, Othello ello, and Richard III., and played the leading parts in the plays of Beaumont and and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Webster, Marston, etc. Besides being an eminent actor, he seems to have been also a successful painter in oil colors. He died in 1619.
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Burbot
or BURBOLT, a fish of the eod family, genus lota (L. vulgaris), shaped somewhat like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head. It has two small barbs on the nose and another on the chin. It is called also eel pout or coney fish, and is said to arrive at its greatest perfection in the Lake of Geneva. It is a delicate food. The spotted burbot is found in American northern lakes and rivers.
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Burbridge
STEPHEN GANO, an American military officer, born in Scott county, Ky., Aug. 19, 1831; organized for the Union army the famous 26th Kentucky Regiment, which he led at Shiloh, where he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General of Volunteers. He was engaged in the Vicksburg expedition under General Grant; led the pedi charge at Arkansas Post and at Port Gibson, being the first to enter each of these places, and was retired with the brevet of Major-General in 1865. He died in 1894.
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Burch
CHARLES SUMNER, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Pinckney, Mich., in 1855. He studied at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1875. From 1897 to 1905, he was editor of the Grand Rapids "Evening Press." In the latter year he was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was assigned to a charge in Staten Island. In 1911, he was made a suffragan bishop, and after the death op Greer in 1920 succeeded the of Bishop latter as bishop of the New York diocese. He died in December, 1920.
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Burchard
SAMUEL DICKINSON, an American Presbyterian clergyman, born in Steuben, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1812; for many years pastor in New York City; created much political excitement throughout the United States by an alliterative characterization of the Democratic party during the Presidential campaign of 1884. A company of clergymen, about 600 in number, called on James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, where Burchard made an address, in which he affirmed that the antecedents of the Democracy were "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." He died in Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1891.
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Burdett-Coutts
ANGELA GEORGINA, BARONESS, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, born April 21, 1814. In 1837 she inherited much of the property of her grandfather, Thomas Coutts, the banker. Besides spending and large sums of money in building and endowing churches and schools, she endowed the three colonial bishoprics of Cape Town, Adelaide, and British Columbia, founded an establishment in South Australia for the improvement of the aborigines, organized the Turkish Compassionate Fund (1877), and established a fishery school at the Irish village of Baltimore (1887). To the city of London she presented, besides several handsome fountains, the Columbia Market, Bethnal Green (1870), for the supply of fish in a poor district; she also built Columbia Square, consisting of model dwellings at low rents, for about 300 families; and the People's Palace owed much to her generosity. In 1871 she accepted a peerage. In 1881 she was married to William Ashmead-Bartlett (born in 1851, who in 1882 obtained the royal license to assume her name, and who, in 1885, was elected Conservative member for Westminster. She died Dec. 30, 1906.
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Burdette
ROBERT JONES, an American journalist and humorist, born in Greensboro, Pa., July 30, 1844. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. He is famous for humorous newspaper skits, of rare variety, charm, and unrepetitious freshness; begun in the Burlington (Ia.) "Hawkeye," of which he became associate editor in 1874. Among his works are "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache," a lecture (1877); "Hawkeyes," collected articles (1880); "Life of William Penn" (1882); "Sons of Asaph," "Chimes from a Jester's Bells," etc. He was licensed as a Baptist clergyman in 1887.
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Burdette, Robert Jones
Robert Jones (1844-), an American humorist. He was born at Gainsborough, Pennsylvania. He served in the Union army during the Civil War, and began newspaper work soon after. In 1874 he became associate editor of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. Later he received license to preach as a Baptist clergyman. Burdette is known as a humorous lecturer, possessing in large measure the gift of swaying the emotions of his audience. There is a simple freshness in his writings that is delightful. His humor is peculiarly his own, and, while very unpretentious, possesses a quality which never wearies but invites to read and read again. Some of his articles were collected and published in book form in 1877, under the title of Hawkeytems. Other writings are Life of William Penn, Chimes from a Jester's Bells, and Rise and Fall of the Moustache. Mr. Burdette is also the author of a number of poems.
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Burdick
FRANCIS MARION, an American jurist and legal writer, born in De Ruyter, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1845. He was graduated at Hamilton College in 1869 and at its Law School in 1872. He practiced law in Utica, N. Y., from 1872 to 1883, and was later Professor of Law at Hamilton College and at Cornell. From 1891 to 1916 he was Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia. He has written "Law of Sales," "Law of Partnership," and other legal text books.
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Bureau
a French word signifying a writing table or desk; also an office for transacting business, a department of government, or the officials that carry it on. In the United States, it is also used in the latter sense; but is universally the word for a chest of drawers.
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