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Because of its British focus and difficult system of abbreviation it was not recommended for family use, but was considered ideal for schools and libraries. A fifth edition was published in May 1967. Some of the basic format was similar, with 12 volumes and 8 million words, the text was extensively revised, more illustrations were added and the ...
J. M. Dent died in 1926. [6] It now forms an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group.The registered companies of J. M. Dent & Sons and Everyman's Library were retained by the Dent family and are now, respectively, an investment company, Malaby Holdings Ltd, and Malaby Martin Ltd, a niche development company.
He was the first person to perform surgery with the aid of anesthesia, some 1600 years before the practice was adopted by Europeans. [38] Bian Que (Pien Ch'iao) was a "miracle doctor" described by the Chinese historian Sima Qian in his Shiji who was credited with many skills.
Julia Boggs Dent was born on January 26, 1826, at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri. [2] [3] Her parents were Frederick Dent (1787–1873), a planter and merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall Dent. [2] Frederick enslaved about 30 Africans, whom he freed only when compelled by law, having previously resisted moral arguments against ...
Dent's first ascents in the Alps include the Lenzspitze (4,294 m) in the Pennine Alps in August 1870, with Alexander Burgener and a porter, Franz Burgener (of whom Dent wrote 'his conversational powers were limited by an odd practice of carrying heavy parcels in his mouth'), [5] and the Portjengrat (Pizzo d'Andollo, 3,654 m) above the valley of ...
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars broadcasts could end next week as he faces a court-ordered auction of his company's assets to help pay the more than $1 billion defamation judgment he owes ...
Editor's note: In an essay for PEOPLE, Michael Strahan opens up about the lessons he learned from Tom Coughlin, his former coach with the New York Giants. The pair helped lead the Giants to a ...
Dent's specialization as a geographer and cartographer was thematic mapping.He defined thematic maps as those that show “the spatial distribution of some geographical phenomenon,” [5] in contrast with general-purpose or reference maps that “display objects (both natural and man-made) from the geographical environment.” [5] He further explained that because thematic maps deal with a ...