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The three volumes contain 2,040 biographical articles and 269 constituency articles. An Introductory Essay by Basil Duke Henning analyses information about the age, education, social background of the Members and their residential and electoral relationship with their constituencies.
Feb 21, 2023 · Basil W. Duke. Basil W. Duke, lawyer, and Confederate soldier, was born in Scott County, Kentucky, on May 28, 1838, the only child of Nathaniel W. and Mary Pickett (Currie) Duke. He studied at Georgetown College, Centre College in Danville [1854-55 academic year], and Transylvania University in Lexington, where he earned a law degree in 1858.
Apr 30, 2022 · Basil Wilson Duke was born in Scott County, Kentucky, on May 28, 1838; the only child of Nathaniel W. Duke and his wife, the former Mary Pickett Currie. He was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m), slightly-built, with a resonant voice. [2] A relative described him as "essentially a man of the 17th century, that century in half armor, torn between ...
Two Letters of Bishop Wood to Col . Duke, C.S.A. 119 Basil W. Duke (1838-1916) was a native of Scott County, Kentucky. With a law degree from Transylvania University at Lexington he moved to Missouri and opened his practice there until the outbreak of war induced him to return home. In 1861 he married the sister of John H.
The Novgorodians affixed the icon of the Virgin and Child to the walls of their city as a protection against the army of Suzdal. In the middle register, the army of Suzdal attacks from the right. One of their arrows strikes the icon of the Virgin and Child on the walls of Novgorod, seen in the upper left.
He also announced he would Christianize Kievan Rus’ if he was offered a desirable marriage tie. In either version of events, Vladimir vied for the hand of Anna, the sister of the ruling Byzantine emperor, Basil II. In order to marry her he was baptized in the Orthodox faith with the name Basil, a nod to his future brother-in-law.
