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    William Chester Minor (also known as W. C. Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical...
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  • William Minor is the name of: William Chester Minor (1834–1920), American surgeon, prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary William J. Minor...
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  • final product. In 1872 London, retired United States Army surgeon William Chester Minor suffers from hallucinations in which he sees himself being persecuted...
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    Voice Sound of Sun Man Short film 2019 The Professor and the Madman William Chester Minor 2021 Flag Day John Vogel Licorice Pizza Jack Holden 2023 Asphalt...
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    received an Oxford honorary doctorate only the year before his death. William Chester Minor was a major contributor to the OED. He became one of the project's...
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  • before serving as an army surgeon: 450–451 —an apparent reference to William Chester Minor.[citation needed] The disorder was included in Appendix C of the...
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    mentioned in Sarah Waters' novel Fingersmith. Inmates included: William Chester Minor, convicted of murder Edward Despard, convicted of high treason (executed...
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    UK: Institutions, archived from the original on 17 April 2010. "William Chester Minor", Documents (PDF) (biography), Berkshire, UK: Record office, archived...
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    Chester is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, situated in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Springfield metropolitan statistical...
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  • attracted significant contributions from some singular minds, such as William Chester Minor, a former army surgeon who had become criminally insane and made...
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    especially prolific reader, W. C. Minor, was confined to a mental hospital for (in modern terminology) schizophrenia.: xiii  Minor was a Yale University–trained...
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    contributors to this modern dictionary was an ex-army surgeon, William Chester Minor, a convicted murderer who was confined to an asylum for the criminally...
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  • Lubbock (died 1913), English naturalist and archaeologist. June 22 – William Chester Minor (died 1920), Ceylonese-born American military surgeon, lexicographer...
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  • born there in 1963 F. B. Meyer, pastored Christ Church in Lambeth William Chester Minor, major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary; while living...
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  • – British clinical psychologist Charles Meryon – French artist William Chester Minor – American killer and a contributor to Oxford English dictionary...
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  • of its most prolific early contributors, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon. Minor was, at the time, imprisoned in the Broadmoor...
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    Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican...
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  • were Thomas Austin Jnr (165,061), William Douglas (151,982), Thomas Nadauld Brushfield (70,277), and William Chester Minor (62,720). All four of them spent...
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    were Mary Fuller, a stage and silent film actress and early star; William Chester Minor, who made major contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary while...
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  • 13 – Charles Lapworth, English geologist (born 1842). March 26 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon (born 1834). March 31 – Paul Bachmann, German...
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    authorising the branding with hot iron Abdullah, Syed (March 2001). "William Chester Minor, M.D.: The Brilliance of a Tortured Mind" (PDF). The Synapse. West...
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  • languages Minamoto no Shitagō (Japan, 911–983) Japanese thesaurus William Chester Minor (Sri Lanka/US/UK, 1834–1920) English historical John Minsheu (England...
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  • century, having been originally submitted by the noted lexicographer William Chester Minor, originally as being equal to 28+4⁄5 inches (730 mm) in India (so...
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  • Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909). 1834 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (d. 1920) 1837 – Paul Morphy, American...
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    shooting of Edward Drummond Jonathan Martin – set fire to York Minster William Chester Minor – surgeon who was committed for murder; best known for being one...
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    O'Connell) The Gunman (Jim Terrier) The Professor and the Madman (Dr. William Chester Minor) Song Kang-ho Shiri (Lee Jang-gil) Joint Security Area (Sergeant...
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    Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also...
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    books. The Map that Changed the World (2001) focuses on the geologist William Smith and was Winchester's second New York Times best seller. The year...
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  • 1849) 1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) 1920 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and lexicographer (b. 1834) 1923 – Sarah Bernhardt...
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  • trompe-l'œil painter Bronisław Malinowski, social anthropologist William Chester Minor – lexicographer and key contributor to the creation of the Oxford...
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