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Lucie Fulton Isaacs
Lucie Isaacs ( Lucinda Fulton; January 18, 1841 – November 20, 1916) was an American writer, philanthropist, and pioneer suffragist. As a writer of essays and descriptive articles, she was known to early readers of the ''Overland (magazine), Overland'' magazine and other Western United States, western periodicals under various pen names, suffering from shyness that made her shrink from publicity. She was a co-organizer of the first woman's club in Walla Walla, Washington, a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, and a supporter of the arts. Isaacs served as president of Walla Walla's suffrage association, lived to see full suffrage given to women and voted before her death in Walla Walla in November 1916. Early life and education Lucinda Fulton was born near St. Joseph, Missouri, January 18, 1841, a daughter of Col. James C. Fulton (1816–1890) and Priscilla Wells Fulton (1816–1902). She traced her ancestry back to one of the three brothers Fulton, Scotch-Irish Protestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
