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    Edward William Bok (born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930) was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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    of Lake Wales, Florida, United States, created by Edward Bok in the 1920s. Formerly known as the Bok Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower, the gardens'...
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  • bok, bök, or бок in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bok or BOK may refer to: Bok (lunar crater), on the Moon's far side Bok (Martian crater) Bok, Khash...
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  • Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania...
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    The Edward W. Bok Technical High School was a public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Irwin T. Catharine and named after literary...
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    last three words in 1886.[citation needed] Knapp was succeeded by Edward William Bok as LHJ editor in late 1889. Knapp remained involved with the magazine's...
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    1890, the first year of Edward W. Bok's long tenure as editor of the magazine. In 1896, at the age of nineteen, she married Bok, who was fourteen years...
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    Sitting Room of the White House. In the late 19th or early 20th century, Edward Bok advocated using the term living room for the room then commonly called...
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  • folklore. Bok is also an artist mainly dealing with sea themes done in wood carvings. Bok is the grandson of Edward Bok, the cousin of Derek Bok, and the...
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    Roosevelt, is Merion. The Merion Civic Association was organized in 1913 by Edward W. Bok with the motto "To be Nation right and State right, we must first be...
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    Quaker and an avid sailor. Curtis Bok was born in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. His father was Edward Bok, a Dutch immigrant to the United...
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    Publishers Weekly. April 23, 2001. Retrieved May 10, 2023. "Obituary Note: Jean Edward Smith". Shelf Awareness. September 26, 2019. Archived from the original...
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    forms, and it was in general use by others at the time. In a note to Edward Bok after the death of Lockwood Kipling in 1911, Rudyard said: "I am sending...
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    response to an invitation from the president of Curtis Publishing Company, Edward Bok, as part of a project to improve modern house design.[citation needed]...
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    cause of world peace. The American Peace Award was created in 1923 by Edward Bok, who believed that the United States government was not taking initiative...
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    relationship with Moses continued as their careers progressed. In 1923 Edward Bok established the $100,000 American Peace Award for the best plan to deliver...
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  • equality United States American Peace Award First created in 1923 by Edward Bok; revived in 2008 United States Art of Peace Award President's Peace Commission...
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    assigning math homework under normal circumstances. In 1900, journalist Edward Bok railed against schools assigning homework to students until age 15. He...
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  • Bok is a surname of several origins. As a Chinese surname, Bok transcribes the Hokkien pronunciations of various surnames spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as...
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    arts and crafts project." Price had led a discussion group, including Edward Bok and brothers Samuel and Joseph Fels, and many in this group became investors...
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    company's processing plant). Chalet Suzanne The Shrine of Ste Anne des Lacs Edward Bok, editor at Ladies' Home Journal, died in Lake Wales in 1930 within sight...
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  • Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (b. 1855) 1930 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (b. 1863) 1931 – Wayne Munn, American...
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  • chemist (d. 1935) 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935) 1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930) 1864 – Reginald Dyer,...
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  • Francis Piol Bol Bok (born February 1979), a Dinka tribesman and citizen of South Sudan, was a slave for ten years and later became an abolitionist and...
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    Seiberling residence, Akron, Ohio E.W. Marland Estate, Ponca City, Oklahoma Edward Bok residence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Henry F. Miller residence, Philadelphia...
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  • SS Edward W. Bok was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Edward W. Bok, a naval constructor a Dutch-born...
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  • Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (died 1986) January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (born 1863) January 16 – Johannes Gilhoff, German writer...
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    with a sense of unity. — Frank Lloyd Wright, "On architecture". In 1900 Edward Bok of the Curtis Publishing Company, bent on improving American homes, invited...
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  • (Doubleday) Biography or Autobiography: The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok (Scriber) "Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Post". The Boston Post...
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  • given his former vessel, the Stargazer, as a gift by the Ferengi DaiMon Bok (Frank Corsentino) who intends to use it to take revenge upon the Enterprise...
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