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121Thomas C. Jerdon — IndiaJerdon started collecting birds shortly after his arrival in India on 21 February 1836.Dickinson, E.C. S.M.S. Gregory. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 55. A re examination of the date of publication of Jerdon s Second Supplement to the… …
122Phineas Fletcher — (1582 1650) was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the younger. He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582. He was admitted a scholar of Eton, and in 1600 entered King s College, Cambridge …
123Samuel Birch — (November 3, 1813 December 27, 1885), was an British Egyptologist and antiquary.Birch was the son of a rector at St Mary Woolnoth, London. From an early age, his manifest tendency to the study of out of the way subjects well suited his later… …
124Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta — (November 6, 1766 – August 10, 1837) was an Italian historian.He was born at San Giorgio Canavese in Piedmont. He studied medicine at the University of Turin, and obtained his doctors degree when about twenty years of age. Having rendered himself …
125Bertold of Regensburg — (c. 1220 1272), the greatest German preacher of the later Middle Ages, was a native of Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there.He was a member of the Franciscan community founded at Regensburg in 1226. His novitiate was passed… …
126Cheffonier — A Cheffonier or Chiffonier, is a piece of furniture differentiated from the sideboard by its smaller size and by the enclosure of the whole of the front by doors. Its name (which comes from the French for a rag gatherer ) suggests that it was… …
127Chung Keng Quee — 鄭景貴 Traditional Chinese 鄭 …
128Cardinal Vicar — ( it. Cardinale Vicario) is a title commonly given to the vicar general of the diocese of Rome for the portion of the diocese within Italy. The official title, as given in the Annuario Pontificio (under the heading Vicariate of Rome ), is Vicar… …
