The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

Author: Roger K. Newman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 0300113005

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This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography Based on the Larger Dictionaries
A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography Based on the Larger Dictionaries

Author: Sir, William Smith

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 9781230074993

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...Maresa, Marescha (Mapijo-i. Mapuri, Mapiaai, Mapeoxt: prob. Ru. S. E. of Beit Jibrin an ancient fortress of Palestine, in the S. of Judaea, of some importance in the history of the early kings of Judah and of the Maccabees. The Parthians had destroyed it before the time of Eusebius; and it is probable that its ruins contributed to the erection of the city of Eleutheropolis (BeitJibrin), which was afterwards built on the site of the ancient Baetogabra, 2 Roman miles N.W. of Maresa. Marescha. maresa. Margiana (tj Mapytavfi: the S. part of Khiva, S.W. part of Bokliara, and N. E. part of Khorassan), a province of the ancient Persian empire, and afterwards of the Greco-Syrian, Parthian, and Persian kingdoms, in Central Asia, N. of the mountains called Sariphi (Ghoor), a part of the chain of the Indian Caucasus, which divided it from Aria; And bounded on the E. by Bactriana, on the N. E. and N. by the river Oxus, which divided it from Sogdiana and Scythia, and on the W. by Hyrcania. It received its name from the river Margus (Moorgliab), which flows through it, from S. E. to N.W., and is lost in the sands of the Desert of Khiva. On this river, near its termination, stood the capital of the district, Antiochia Margiana (A/era). With the exception of the districts round this and the minor rivers, which produced excellent wine, the country was for the most part a sandy desert. Its chief inhabitants were the Derbices, Pami, Tapuri, and branches of the great tribes of the Massagetae, Dahae, and Mardi. The country became known to the Greeks by the expeditions of Alexander and Antiochus I., the first of whom founded, and the second rebuilt, Antiochia; and the Romans of the age of Augustus obtained further information about it from the returned...

Webster's II New College Dictionary
Webster's II New College Dictionary

Author: Webster's New World Dictionary

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1552

ISBN-13: 9780618396016

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A newly updated edition of the dictionary features more than 200,000 definitions, as well as revised charts and tables, proofreaders' marks, synonym lists, word histories, and context examples.