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The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14578706648)
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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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egate,at Port-au-Prince, and Haiti has a ministeraccredited to the Holy See. Freedom of con-science is, however, guaranteed: and all cultsare protected. Haitian citizens only can ownreal estate. .\ny foreigner may easily benaturalized. Haiti produces coffee, cocoa, logwood, ma-hogany, and cotton; tortoise-shells, all kind ofcabinet wood, hides, honey, bees-wa.x, etc., arealso exported: for home consumption, they makesugar, rum. soap, straw hats, potterv-, matches,artificial ice, etc. There is a railroad from CapeHaiti to Grande Riviere and another one fromPort-au-Prince to LEtang. These railroadsare managed by Haitian companies; so are theinland telegraph and telephone lines. Thearea of the Republic is estimated at 26,000 squarekilometres and the population (1900) 1^94,400, J. N. Leger, Ent-.^yc Extraordinare et Ministre PUnipotcn- tijirc dHaiti aux Etats-Lnis. Hake, Alfred Egmont English journalist and author. He is a son of Thomas Gord ti Hake (q.v.) and cousin of General C. E. Gor-
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< ■J 2 a HAKE — HALE don (q.v.), whose life he has written in TheStory of Chinese Gordon (1883). Otherworks by him are: Paris Originals (1878);Flatterinc; Tales (1882) ; The UnemployedProblem Solved (l883); Events in the Tai-ping Rebellion (i8gi); Suffering London(1892) ; Gordon in China and the Soudan(1896) ; Irish Finance (1897). Hake, Thomas Gordon, English poet andphysician: b. Leeds 1809; d. London 11 Jan.1895. He took his medical degree at GlasgowUniversity in 1831, and practised his professionin East Anglia, later becoming the physicianand friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Hispoetry is thoroughly original, but very subtlyphilosophical. His works include: PoeticLucubrations (1828); Vates: A Prose Epic(1839) ; Madeline with Other Poems and Para-bles (1871); New Symbols (1875); MaidenEcstasy, verse (1S80) ; The Serpent Play, aDivine Pastoral (1883) ; Memoirs of EightyYears (1892). Hakes, Fishes of the family Gadidcc andchietly of the genera Pliycis and Mcrluccius,distinguis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English painter and poet and one of the co-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828. His family and friends called him Gabriel, but later, he put the name Dante first in honor of Dante Alighieri. While studying painting in London, he was fascinated by the work of Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1847 he discovered the 18th-century English painter-poet, William Blake. By the time Rossetti was 20, he had already done a number of translations of Italian poets. Together with his friends, Rossetti formed and expanded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by linking poetry, painting, social idealism and a romanticized medieval past. Rossetti’s own paintings were elaborate in symbolism. Elizabeth Siddal who served at first as a model, married him. Around 1860, after ten years of writing poetry, Rossetti returned to oil painting. His marriage ended tragically in 1862 with her death from an overdose of laudanum. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems with his wife at Highgate Cemetery, though he later had them dug up. Rosetti compared his love for his wife to Dante’s love for Beatrice. After the death of his wife, Rossetti moved from riverside London’s Blackfriars to Chelsea, where he lived for 20 years surrounded by extravagant furnishings, exotic birds, and animals. Rossetti grew affluent and enjoyed modest success in 1861 with his published translations of the Early Italian Poets. The publication of his own poems followed in 1870 but criticism of Rossetti's poetry contributed to a mental breakdown in June 1872, so he "spent his days in a haze of chloral and whisky". Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by drug addiction and mental instability. He had been suffering from alcohol psychosis. On Easter Sunday, 1882, he died at the country house of a friend, where he had gone in a vain attempt to recover his health. He is buried in the churchyard of All Saints at Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England. Rossetti remains an important figure in the history of 19th-century English art.
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