Obed hussey biography of william shakespeare

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  • William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English.

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    Sweeper in the Sky:
    The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America.
    By HelenWright , 1914-1997.
    New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949.
    Copyright not renewed.

    A Celebration of Women Writers

     

    Maria Mitchell's telescope, as displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Photograph c/o Daniel P. B. Smith.

    SWEEPER IN THE SKY
    The Life of Maria Mitchell


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    MARIA MITCHELL
    (Painted by H. Dassel in 1851)

    SWEEPER
    in the
    SKY

    THE LIFE OF MARIA MITCHELL
    FIRST WOMAN ASTRONOMER
    IN AMERICA




    by HELEN WRIGHT

    The Macmillan Company :: New York
    1949

     

    COPYRIGHT, 1949, BY HELEN WRIGHT HAWKINS

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  • obed hussey biography of william shakespeare

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    WILLIAM HUSSEY MACY

    POEMS.
    1873-1890

    Chronological List & Index

    [Poems by Title.]

    [1869]

    The "School-House on the Hill."
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Aug 21, 1869, Vol. 50, No. 8, p.3.
    Also published in:
          Poems of Nantucket. (Nantucket: Henry S. Wyer, 1888), pp. 55-58.

    [1873]

    The Last Nantucket Whaler.
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Mar 29, 1873, Vol. 53, No. 39, p.2.

    [1874]

    Gas-triloquy.
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Mar 14, 1874, Vol. 54, No. 37, p.2.

    [1875]

    Verbena.
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Jan 23, 1875, Vol. 55, No. 30, p.2.Annual Meet'n.
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Feb 27, 1875, Vol. 55, No. 35, p.2.Jerushy Jenkins has spoken her piece.
          Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket), Mar 6, 1875, Vol. 55, No. 36, p.2.Tawtemeo – A Fragment.
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    Record Unit 361

    Designed both as an inquiry into the American character and to suggest answers to Jean de Crevecoeur's question, "What then is the American, this new man?" posed in his Letters From an American Farmer in 1782, the exhibition grouped 168 portraits into such categories as imagemaker, idol, defender, explorer, and expatriate.

    Another dimension of the exhibition included patent models of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper and telegraph relay; ornithologist John James Audubon; educator John Dewey; explorer Henry Hudson; indigenous American Powhatan; journalist Joseph Pulitzer; scientist Joseph Henry; and many other Americans whose contributions in their respective fields such as politics, medicine, history and philosophy, religion and sociology, were outstanding. Many of these individuals, both American and foreign, ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Warren G. Harding, and from Alexis de Tocqueville to Arthur M. Schlesinger, volunteered answers to Crevecoeur's que