• The Hartford Wits were a group of young writers from Connecticut in the late 18th century including John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, Joel...
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    quotations related to wit. Hartford Wits New Oxford Wits Oxford Wits Wit (film) Wit (play) "wit". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2012-05-27. "wit". Oxford Dictionaries...
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    Timothy Dwight IV (category Hartford Wits)
    were members of a group of writers centered around Yale known as the "Hartford Wits" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest...
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    Joel Barlow (category Hartford Wits)
    Humphreys, and John Trumbull, known in American literary history as the "Hartford Wits". He contributed to The Anarchiad, a series of satirico-political papers...
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    David Humphreys (soldier) (category Hartford Wits)
    legislature. He also was a prolific poet and author and a member of the Hartford Wits. As secretary and speechwriter to George Washington during his administration...
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    Earp Elihu Hubbard Smith, physician and man of letters, one of the Hartford Wits Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author Benjamin Tallmadge, American...
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    John Trumbull (poet) (category Hartford Wits)
    Revolutionary War, Trumbull was a staunch Federalist, and with the "Hartford Wits" David Humphreys, Joel Barlow and Lemuel Hopkins, wrote "The Anarchiad"...
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  • Richard Alsop (category Hartford Wits)
    was Abigail Sackett. He was a member of the literary group called the Hartford Wits, and contributed verse to the Political Greenhouse and the Echo. This...
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    The Anarchiad (category Hartford Wits)
    Restoration of Chaos and Substantial Night was penned by four members of the Hartford Wits: David Humphreys, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, and Lemuel Hopkins. It...
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    Lemuel Hopkins (category Hartford Wits)
    14, 1801) was an American poet and physician who was a member of the Hartford Wits, a group of literary satirists active in the late eighteenth century...
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  • Elihu Hubbard Smith (category Hartford Wits)
    ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 2022-01-28. Bailey, Marcia Edgerton (1928). A Lesser Hartford Wit, Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1771-1798. University of Maine Studies, Second...
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    History of Chili, in two volumes, and was one of The Hartford Wits, also known as the Connecticut Wits, who were a group of American writers centered around...
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    Cogswell was close to the Hartford Wits, a group of young writers from Connecticut. He died of pneumonia in 1830 in Hartford. Cogswell is a highly influential...
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  • education. His most noted pupil was the poet Joel Barlow, one of the "Hartford Wits". While attending the village school which Bartlett taught in Redding...
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  • notable American poetry anthology; contains poems largely from the Hartford Wits group of Connecticut poets, including poems by friends of Smith such...
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  • Alsop and others, The Echo, With Other Poems, anthology of poems by the Hartford Wits that had appeared in the American Mercury magazine from 1791 to 1805...
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  • "Mack" Hartford is the outgoing, enthusiastic, and brave yet sheltered Red Overdrive Ranger, team leader, and an android created by Andrew Hartford who initially...
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  • The Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics And Science (also known as GHAMAS) was located in the Learning Corridor in Hartford, CT. The building houses...
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    (September 28, 1987). "Profiles of wits from a bygone era highlight 'American Masters'". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. 13 – via Newspapers...
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    Dorothy Parker (redirect from Algonquin wit)
    All: The Quips, Lives and Loves of Some Celebrated 20th-Century American Wits. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 78. ISBN 0-399-12710-0. Chambers, Dianne...
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  • George Kirgo (category Writers from Hartford, Connecticut)
    Blumenthal in Hartford, Connecticut, the middle child of three born to Russian immigrants Isadore and Anna Blumenthal. While attending Hartford Public High...
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  • Jerry Bishop (category People from Hartford, Connecticut)
    the 1970s. He was the announcer for the television game show, The Cross-Wits, as well as the short-lived NBC variety series, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday...
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    de Wit joined FC Cincinnati ahead of the 2017 USL season. Ahead of their inaugural season in 2019, de Wit joined USL Championship side Hartford Athletic...
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  • The Speed of the Old Long Bow (category John Hartford albums)
    loose-jointed fun. Everything here is like a patch in a quilt, and the trademark Hartford wit, joy and energy is everywhere apparent. Highlights include the set opener...
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  • With Rod L. Evans, Carpenter co-authored a trivia book titled Matching Wits With the Million-Dollar Mind: The World's Hardest Trivia Quizzes From America's...
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    Junius Spencer Morgan (category Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut))
    working on his father's farm or assisting at his father's business office in Hartford. As was typical for aspiring businessmen of the time, Junius did not enroll...
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  • clouds, the sun Motto of the University of Zulia, Venezuela, as well as Hartford, Connecticut post nubes lux out of darkness, light Motto of Cranfield University...
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  • is as good a romantic comedy as has come this way in a long time." The Hartford Courant said, "Garofalo shows comic flair, deft timing, surprising depth...
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    (December 20, 2009). "Actress Bryce Howard Wild About Greenwich". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut: Tronc. Archived from the original on September 8...
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    7, 2010. "Carrie Fisher Stars in Wishful Drinking at Hartford Stage" (Press release). Hartford Stage. Archived from the original on September 18, 2009...
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