perspicuity
51perspicuous — adjective Etymology: Latin perspicuus transparent, perspicuous, from perspicere Date: 1586 plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation < a perspicuous argument > Synonyms: see clear • perspicuity noun •… …
52Peter III of Russia — Peter III Emperor Peter III, 1762 Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias Reign 5 January 1762 – 9 July 1762 …
53Public choice theory — Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science. (A more general term is political economy , an earlier name for economics that evokes its… …
54Symeon of Durham — Symeon (or Simeon) of Durham (d. after 1129), English chronicler, embraced the monastic life before the year 1083 in the monastery of Jarrow; but only made his profession at a later date, after he had removed with the rest of his community to… …
55William Chillingworth — (October 12, 1602 – January 30, 1644) was a controversial English churchman.He was born in Oxford. In June 1618 he became a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, of which he was made a fellow in June 1628. He gained a reputation as a skillful… …
56Rent seeking — In economics, rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic and/or legal environment rather than by trade and production of wealth. The term comes from the notion of economic rent,… …
57Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn — (13 February 1733 ndash; 2 January 1805), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn (a lord of session as Lord Chesterhall), and was born in East Lothian.He acquired the rudiments of his education at Dalkeith and at …
58Wentworth letter — The Wentworth letter was a letter written in 1842 by Latter Day Saint founder Joseph Smith, Jr. to Long John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat . It outlined the history of the Latter Day Saint movement up to that time, and included… …
59Johann Friedrich Overbeck — (4 July 1789 ndash; 1869), was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. He also made four etchings.BiographyBorn in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors; his father… …
60John Berchmans — Infobox Saint name=Saint John Berchmans birth date=birth date|1599|3|13|mf=y death date=death date and age|1621|8|13|1599|3|13|mf=y feast day=November 26 venerated in=Roman Catholic Church imagesize= caption= birth place=Diest death place= titles …
