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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wakefield, Edward Jerningham

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​Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (q.v.) proceeded to New Zealand with his uncle Colonel William Wakefield, who was the principal agent of the New Zealand Company, and who took the leading part in founding the Wellington settlement in the years 1839-40. Mr. Wakefield remained in New Zealand till 1844, when he returned to England, and in the two following years occupied himself, at his father's instigation, in promoting the Church of England settlement in Canterbury and the Presbyterian settlement in Otago. Returning to New Zealand, Mr. Wakefield represented a Canterbury constituency in the first House of Representatives elected under the new Constitution Act in 1854, and was a member of the Executive Council from August to Sept. during the inchoate period which preceded the initiation of regular responsible government. He was again an M.H.R. in 1876, and died at Christchurch the same year. He was the author of "Adventures in New Zealand," published in 1845; "A Letter to Sir George Grey in reply to his Attacks on the Canterbury Association and Settlement" (Lyttelton, N.Z., 1851); "The Founders of Canterbury, being Letters from the late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to John Robert Godley and to other Well-known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury, in New Zealand" (Christchurch, N.Z., 1868).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walker, Hon. John

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​Walker, Hon. John, was born in Scotland in 1799. He emigrated to Tasmania in 1822, and carried on business as a miller in Hobart for many years. He was appointed one of the Commissioners for Hobart before the establishment of a Municipal Council for the city. In 1851 he was elected a member of the old Legislative Council for Brighton, and on the introduction of free institutions was elected for the House of Assembly as member for Hobart. He was a member, without office, of Mr. (now Sir F.) Smith's Ministry from May 12th, 1857, to Nov. 1st, 1860. He died at Hobart on Feb. 27th, 1874.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Waka, Nene Tamati

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​Waka, Nene Tamati (formerly known as Te Nene), was a very influential chief of the Ngapubi tribe, and will always be remembered in the history of New Zealand as the friend of the white man. He lived at the Bay of Islands, which was the place first selected for irregular colonisation, and from the beginning gave the intruders a generous welcome. He used his influence with the Maoris to sign the Treaty of Waitangi. In after years, when Hoani Heke commenced hostilities against the settlers at Kororarika, the friendship of Tamati Waka was invaluable. In his old age he received a well-merited pension of £100 per annum from the British Government in recognition of his long and faithful service. In 1861 the Queen sent him a silver cup as a mark of her friendship; and in 1868 he had an interview with Sir George Bowen at Waitangi. He lived to an extreme old age, and died at Russell (Kororarika) on August 4th, 1871, where his remains are interred under a modest monument erected at the public expense.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wakefield, Edward

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​Wakefield, Edward, is the fifth son of the late Felix Wakefield (q.v.) and was born at Launceston, Tas., on May 22nd, 1845, being taken to England in his infancy. His father brought him to New Zealand in 1851, and he was afterwards for some time under the care of his uncle, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, at Wellington. In 1855 he returned to England, and was educated at King's College, London. In 1863 he was back again in New Zealand and attached to the staff of the Nelson Examiner. Two years later he was appointed to a Civil Service clerkship, and in 1866 became private secretary to the Premier, Sir Edward Stafford. He was subsequently confidential secretary to the New Zealand Cabinet, and held the post for four years. He was then in the Customs for a short period, but again connected himself with journalism, editing the Evening Press at Wellington with conspicuous ability. Mr. Wakefield was elected M.H.R. for Geraldine in Dec. 1875, and was re-elected in 1879. In 1880 he was chairman of the Royal Commission on Local Industries, and in the next year was defeated for Geraldine, and for Inanghua in 1883. In May 1884 he was returned for Selwyn, and again in the following July, unopposed. In the short-lived Atkinson Government of August to Sept. 1884 he was Colonial Secretary. Shortly afterwards he left the colony, and has recently resided principally in America. He has published a work on the progress of New Zealand during the past fifty years.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walch, Garnet

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​Walch, Garnet, the author and dramatist, is the youngest son of the late Major Walch, of her Majesty's 54th Regiment, and brother of the well-known publishers Messrs. Walch, of Tasmania. Mr. Walch was born in Tasmania in 1843, but passed some of his earlier years in England and on the Continent. On the completion of his education he returned to Australia, where he was at first engaged in commercial pursuits, but later on developed a taste for press work, and was employed as a writer on several of the leading papers of New South Wales. He also started a journal of his own, known as the Cumberland Times, but his first independent literary venture appeared as recently as 1870, when he published a series of Christmas stories, under the title of "Fireflash." At Christmas 1871 he produced his original extravaganza Trookulentos, which achieved great success. Removing to Victoria, toward the close of 1872, he produced True Blue Beard at the Prince of Wales' Theatre (now the Opera House), and early next year a burlesque entitled Pygmalion and his Gal a dear, followed by his extravaganzas Australia Felix and Adamatna, both played at the Opera House. In 1874 he published a volume of humorous verse and prose, "Head over Heels," and next year a grotesquely illustrated work styled "On the Cards." His next Melbourne pantomime was an adaptation of "Froggie would a-wooing go," while in Sydney was played his original version of Beauty and the Beast, the Theatre Royal of each city being the locale of production. In 1876, besides a variety of dramiettes written to introduce Dr. Silvester's ghost effects, Mr. Walch wrote his pantomime Hey Diddle Diddle for the Melbourne Theatre Royal, a fresh version of his Trookulentos being also played in New Zealand. Mr. Walch subsequently produced a dramatisation of "Helen's Babies" and a comedy styled Humble-pie, besides others which it is needless to enumerate. In addition to the above, Mr. Walch has written several localised versions of popular burlesques and bouffes and a number of descriptive lectures. Shortly after his arrival in Melbourne Mr. Walch was chosen out of a hundred and fifteen applicants to fill the post of secretary to the Melbourne Athenæum, the leading literary institute of Australia. This post he resigned in 1882. He edited a handsome illustrated volume entitled "Victoria in 1880," published locally.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bocher, Maxime

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BOCHER, bo'shā, Maxime, American mathematician: b. Boston, 28 Aug. 1867. He was educated at Harvard and Göttingen and became instructor 1891, assistant professor 1894, and professor of mathematics in Harvard 1904; 1908-10 he was president of the American Mathematical Society. His published works include ‘Introduction to Higher Algebra’ (1907); ‘Introduction to the Study of Integral Equations’ (1909); and he was one of the editors of the ‘Annals of Mathematics,’ of the ‘Transactions’ of the American Mathematical Society, and collaborator on the ‘Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bock Beer

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BOCK BEER, a strong beer, the first drawn from the vats in the spring, when the winter's brew of lager beer is broached. See Beer Brewing.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bodmer, Johann Jakob

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BODMER, Johann Jakob, German-Swiss literary critic: b. Greifensee, Switzerland, 19 July 1698; d. Zürich, 2 Jan. 1783. With Breitinger from 1721-23 he issued the periodical Diskurse der Maler, in which German poetry was severely criticised for its servility to French models. Based on national and ancient standards, he formed a German literary school in opposition to Gottsched of Leipzig, with whom he carried on a prolonged controversy to the final discomfiture of his opponent. He translated Milton's ‘Paradise Lost,’ wrote poems and dramas of no signal merit, but published valuable editions of older German poets. For 50 years he was professor of Swiss history and politics in Zürich. Bodmer was appointed professor of history at Zürich in 1725. Perhaps his greatest service to German letters were his editions of the ‘Minnesingers’ and of part of the ‘Nibelungenlied.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bodmer, Georg

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BODMER, bŏd'mār, Georg, Swiss mechanic: b. Zürich, 6 Dec. 1786; d. Zürich, 29 May 1864. He invented the screw and cross wheels and made valuable improvements in firearms and in various kinds of machinery, particularly in that of wool spinning.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bodoni, Giambattista

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BODONI, bō-dō'nē, Giambattista, Italian printer and type-cutter: b. Saluzzo, Piedmont, 1740; d. Padua, 29 Nov. 1813. His father owned a printing establishment at Saluzzo, and he began, while yet a boy, to employ himself in engraving on wood. In 1758 he went to Rome and was made compositor on the press of the Propaganda. He there made himself master of Oriental languages and restored in place the types of several alphabets which had fallen into disorder. About 1766 Bodoni was placed at the head of the Duke of Parma's private press, which he made the first of the kind in Europe, and gained the reputation of having far surpassed all the splendid and beautiful productions of his predecessors in the art; but the intrinsic value of his editions is seldom equal to their outward splendor. His Homer is a magnificent work; indeed, his Greek letters are the most perfect imitations of Greek manuscript that have been attempted in modern times. He printed the Lord's Prayer in 155 languages. His splendid editions of Greek, Latin, Italian and French classics are highly prized.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Boche

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BOCHE, a name employed with the signification German, especially German soldier, by the Allies in France in 1914-17, and given currency everywhere through the widely published descriptions of the campaigns of the European War. It came to express war-engendered hatred of the Teutons, but is nevertheless not a war-creation. On the contrary, for many years before the war it had been (first in the form Alboche) a familiar part of the Parisian popular vocabulary. Alboche may be called a “telescope word,” like autobus (auto-mobile and omni-bus joined in a single word of convenient brevity). By analogous telescoping the Parisians made Alboche out of Allemand, the French word for German, and caboche, slang or cant for “head” (Low Latin boscia). It was speedily shortened to boche or Boche, and is a striking example of onomatopœia, the very sound of the word expressing French estimates of the invaders' character and giving to that one syllable vitality that is independent of etymological association. Consult Paris Figaro (10 April 1915); London Spectator (4 Sept. 1915); Literary Digest (New York, 6 Nov. 1915, p. 1012).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bochnia

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BOCHNIA, bŏH'nē-ạ, Austria, town in the government of Lemberg, Galicia, near the Raba, 25 miles east-southeast of Cracow. It is tolerably well built, with several churches, a gymnasium, a grammar and other schools and a board for the regulation of mines and salt works. The salt mines here employ 500 persons, and yield 15,000 tons per annum. It is the seat of thriving industries and trade. Pop. of judicial district 47,987, including 3,000 Jews.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bock, Jerome

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BOCK, Jerome, German botanist, better known under his Latin name of Cragus: b. Heidesbach 1498; d. Harnbach 1554. He was a schoolmaster, and then a physician. Bock may be considered as one of the founders of modern botany; he was the first who endeavored to form a natural botanical arrangement. He is the author of a ‘Herbal of German Plants.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bock, Karl Ernst

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BOCK, Karl Ernst, German anatomist: b. Leipzig 1809; d. 1874. He studied at the University of Leipzig, and at the outbreak of the Polish revolution he went to Warsaw, where he acted as hospital physician, first in the Polish service and later in the Russian. In 1839 he was elected extraordinary professor in the University of Leipzig. His title to fame rests chiefly on his ‘Handbook of Human Anatomy.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bochum

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BOCHUM, bǒH'oom, Prussia, town in the government of Arnsberg, province of Westphalia, five miles east-northeast of Essen and between 20 and 30 miles northeast of Düsseldorf. It is on the railway from Dortmund to Duisburg, and has important iron, steel and coal mining industries. It contains several churches, a school of mining and metallurgy, a gymnasium and theatre. Among its industrial establishments are steel works, iron foundries, tin and zinc factories, carpet factories and paper roofing manufactories. The waterworks are municipal property and the town has a modern sewage system. The government is vested in a municipal council of 24 members who elect an executive board of seven. Pop. 136,916.
# The Dedication of Harvey Milk Statue

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The Dedication of Harvey Milk Statue. Congressional Record. May 22, 2008. Extensions of Remarks. Page E1055. DOCID:cr23my08-28. (available online)
Ms. PELOSI. Today, a statue of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk will be unveiled at City Hall in San Francisco. It is fitting that on the occasion of his 78th birthday, San Franciscans will gather to pay tribute to Harvey Milk's life and work at City Hall, where he served San Francisco and so tragically lost his life 30 years ago.
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to any significant political office in our history. This memorial will be the first such tribute to an LGBT leader to be placed in a seat of government in the United States.
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. A year later, in one of the darkest weeks of San Francisco's history, Supervisor Milk and our beloved Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White.
Harvey Milk was a San Francisco hero, a champion of human rights and symbol to the world for LGBT civil rights. His political career was dedicated to shattering the silence of gay America. He firmly believed that the only way for gays to break down homophobia was to increase their visibility and irrevocably enter the consciousness of our Nation.
A popular neighborhood merchant and activist, Harvey Milk became a great progressive leader who transformed San Francisco political life and social culture for all time. He pioneered an open, participatory government accessible to all, especially those who had never before been engaged. For the first time, neighborhood and ethnic community activists and openly gay men and lesbians were appointed to positions of power and authority. He was a passionate advocate for seniors, and his populist agenda encompassed the needs of all of San Francisco's minorities.
Last week's California Supreme Court decision to strike the ban on gay marriage is a testament to Harvey Milk's enduring legacy. It is a significant milestone for which all Californians can take pride, and one we would not have reached without the courage and dedication of Harvey Milk and many LGBT leaders after him.
Harvey Milk did not live to see the immeasurable and global ramifications of his life. He continues to inspire us to strive for a society that honors his values of unlimited and equal opportunities for all our citizens. His legacy helps bring our country closer to the ideal of equality that is both our heritage and our hope.
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tarr, Ralph Stockman

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TARR, Ralph Stockman, American geologist: b. Gloucester, Mass., 15 Jan. 1864; d. 1912. He was graduated from Harvard in 1891, and was assistant in geology there 1890-91. From 1892-97 he was assistant in geology at Cornell University, and thereafter professor of dynamic geology there until his demise. He has published ‘Economic Geology of the United States’ (1893); ‘Elementary Physical Geography’ (1895); ‘Elementary Geology’ (1897); ‘Physical Geography of New York’ (1902); ‘Geography of Science’ (1905); ‘Alaskan Glacier Studies’ (1914); ‘College Physiography’ (1914).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tauchnitz, Karl Christoph Traugott

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TAUCHNITZ, Karl Christoph Traugott, German printer and bookseller: b. Grosspardau, near Grimma, 29 Oct. 1761; d. 14 Jan. 1834. In 1797 he set up a printing shop at Leipzig, which he enlarged by the addition of a book-shop in 1798 and a type-foundry in 1800, the style of the firm being Karl Tauchnitz. He first introduced stereotyping into Germany, and won a high reputation by his musical publications, his editions of the Bible and the Koran and his remarkably correct series of Greek and Latin classics.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tausen, Hans

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TAUSEN, Hans, Danish reformer: b. Birkende, on Fünen Island, 1494; d. Ribe, 11 Nov. 1561. He studied at Wittenberg and was preacher, from 1525, at Viborg, then, from 1529, at Copenhagen. He edited, with collaborators (1530), “The 43d Copenhagen Article.” In 1535 he published a prayer-book and a book of homilies. He was appointed reading-master of the university (1537) and (1542) bishop of Ribe. Instead of Latin he used his native language in his sermons and books. A selection of his works was brought out by
Rördam (Copenhagen 1870). Consult Rön, ‘Skiagraphia Lutheri Danici M. Johannis’ (1757); Schmitt, L., ‘Johannis Tausen, oder der dänische Luther’ (Köln 1894).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Taussig, Edward David

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TAUSSIG, tows'ĭg, Edward David, American naval officer: b. Saint Louis, Mo., 20 Nov. 1847. On graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1867, he was appointed successively ensign, master and lieutenant, being made lieutenant-commander 19 June 1892. He has served on the European and Pacific stations and in the coast survey. He took possession of Wake Island for the United States and was placed in charge of Guam 1 Feb. 1899. He was on duty in the Philippines and during the summer of 1900 in North China. He has commanded the Bennington and the Yorktown.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tandy, James Napper

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TANDY, James Napper, Irish patriot: b. 1740; d. Bordeaux, France, 1803. As a Protestant leader of the popular movement he took zealous action in corporation politics, free trade agitation and volunteering affairs, and was elected the first secretary to the United
Irishmen of Dublin. In 1792 he sent a challenge to the solicitor-general, Toler, and was condemned to prison till the close of the session by the House of Commons. As the viceroy had offered a reward for his arrest, he raised a formal action for illegality against him and his privy-councillors, which was dismissed at the final hearing. For distributing in County Louth a seditious pamphlet, he was about to be tried in 1793, when the government discovered that he had met the Defenders and taken their oath, with the view of effecting a coalition between them and the United Irishmen. Tandy fled to the United States, but crossed to France in 1798, where he was raised to the rank of a general of division in the French army. He joined the ill-fated invasion of Ireland, and made a futile landing at Rutland Island 16 Sept. 1798. He escaped to Hamburg, the senate of which city handed him over to the English government. On 12 Feb. 1800, he was put on trial at Dublin, and acquitted. He was again put on trial (1801) for the treasonable landing on Rutland Island. This time he was sentenced to death, but, from motives of policy, was permitted to make his way to France, where he spent the rest of his days. He was the hero of the familiar Irish song, ‘The Wearing of the Green.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tanjeff, Serge Ivanovitch

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TANJEFF, Serge Ivanovitch, Russian composer: b. 1856; d. Petrograd, 20 June 1915. He was son of a Russian government official and, while quite young, was studying the pianoforte at Moscow Conservatory under Lange. He was next sent to the public school but later it was decided to continue his music studies under Nicholas Rubinstein. He studied fugue under Hubert, leaving the conservatory (1875) with the award of the first gold medal. He played in Paris 1877-78, then performed through the Baltic provinces, next returning to Moscow, where he was appointed professor of instrumentation, succeeding Tschaikowsky (q.v.). On Rubinstein's death he became professor of the pianoforte but displayed his talents rarely before the public. He composed ‘Oresteia’ a trilogy in eight acts (1895); ‘John of Damascus,’ a cantata (1884), many choruses, some symphonies and quartets. He arranged for the piano works of Tschaikowsky, Glazounoff, Arinsky and others.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard, Freiherr von

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TAUCHNITZ, towH′nĭts, Christian Bernhard,Freiherr von, German publisher: b. Schleinitz, near Naumburg, 25 Aug. 1816; d. 13 Aug. 1895. In 1837 he founded his well-known publishing establishment in Leipzig; in 1860 was created a hereditary noble; in 1866 was appointed consul-general for Great Britain in the kingdom of Saxony; and in 1877 was made a life member of the Saxon first chamber. The firm is best known for its ‘Collection of British and American Authors,’ generally called the “Tauchnitz Edition,” begun in 1841 and in 1903 extending to about 3,700 volumes.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tausig, Karl

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TAUSIG, Karl, German pianist: b Warsaw, 4 Nov. 1841; d. Leipzig, 17 July 1871. First he was under his father's tuition, then studied under Bocklet, Thalberg and Liszt in Vienna. He made art tours, then lived in Dresden and later (1861-62) in Vienna. From 1866 he was royal court pianist at Berlin and led, till 1870, an academy of pianoforte playing. As a virtuoso he was equally interpreter of classic as of modern piano-music, but as composer he produced few works. Noteworthy of his productions is his edition of Clementis' ‘Gradus ad Parnassum.’ His piano score of Wagner's ‘Meistersinger’ became very popular. His ‘Technischen Studien’ was polished by H. Ehrlich. Consult Weitzmann, ‘Der letzte der Virtuosen’ (Berlin 1868).