Father, Great

The association of Madeira with the United States is intimate. The Declaration of Independence, on 4th July 1776, was toasted by George Washington with a chalice of Madeira wine. It was the wine preferred by kings, emperors, and statesmen and served during the banquets of European Courts. Thomas Jefferson, and all the other "Founding Fathers," greatly appreciated the most exquisite wines of the time, but preferred Madeira over all. 

He published a great number of scientific articles and a number of books the three volume Tnite d electricite et de niagnedsine, et des applications de ces sciences a h chimie, i h physioJogie et aux arts. (1855-1856 with his father) Rcchcrchcs sur divers effets lumineux qui resultent de Faction de la lumiere surlcs corps (1859) and La luniicrc, scs causes ct scs effets 1867, in two volumes. 

Element 101 is named Mendelevium in honor of the great Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. The youngest of seventeen children, he was born in Tobolslca where his grandfather published the first newspaper in Siberia and his father ivaj the high school principal. Dmitri received his early education from a political exile, but when his father died, his mother traveled west in search of better educational opportunities for Dmitri. 

Don Francisco went back to Granada to spend his final years. There, he still kept an interest in a fraction of his father s land which he had inherited. In 1981, his health visibly declined, and cancer of the intestines was diagnosed. He had to sutler two major operations which were of no avail, and finally he accepted his fate with great fortitude and dignity. Don Francisco spent the following trying months surrounded by his closest relatives, receiving the most devoted care from his wife. He died on November 19, 1983. 

Goldschmidt VM (1929) The Distribution of the Chemical Elements. Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 26 73-86, as quoted in Mason B, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Father of Modern Geochemistry, The Geochemical Society San Antonio TX184 pp. 

It s a good match for both families, but your father and I want you to be happy, too. When I was wed for the first time. .. Well, His Grace of Bedford was a very kind man as well as a very great one. But it is never easy, the business of becoming a wife. ... 

See that one, son Edward s father of York, and a very great man, whatever he did. Edward s brother at least was laid in the ground... 

Una, that s great That you can see it now Just under your feet. Mark rubbed his forearm across his brow and winced. Where his hair had hidden it I saw a bruise, new and angry, with the graze barely skinning over. I remembered his father was out of prison again. 

When Edward, victorious, entered London, he made Richard of Gloucester Constable of the Tower for he of all men, Edward knew, would not turn his coat from the colors of their great Plan-tagenet father of York, as their brother George had done. 

Wells, W.A. Franciscus Sylvanus (Francois de le Boe) 1614-1672. Founder of iatro- chemistry, a great teacher of medicine and rightful father of the Sylvan eponyms. Laryngoscope 59, no. 8 (Aug 1949) 9-4-919. 

As a child, Wallace regarded his father as incredibly remote, wise and exalted. .. on an inaccessible plane and. .. to be feared. As an adult, Wallace found it exasperating and sometimes sickening to be in the same room with him. When a friend described a pleasant afternoon spent with his own father, Wallace said he felt like a fellow who has spent his life in the penitentiary. .. on reading a story of the great outdoors. ... 

Thomas Hancock (1785-1865) is designated the father of the rubber industry and to him Great Britain is indebted for the honour of being the first country to manufacture rubber successfully as a large-scale project. His first major discovery, in 1819, was the process of masticating and mixing raw rubber. His subsequent claim, in his Personal Narrative published in 1857, that this was unquestionably the origin and commencement of the India-rubber manufacture, properly so called , has been amply verified since. 

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