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Mary Florence Curran
Mary Florence Curran (1885–1976) was an artist and worker for social reform in the Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. She managed Works Progress Administration programs for artists in Pennsylvania during the 1930s. Early life and education Mary Florence Curran was born in 1885, to Dr. Charles J. Curran and Katherine Lally of North Adams, Massachusetts. She attended the College of New Rochelle, where she received an A.B. in English Literature with a minor in history in 1908. She went on to study at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Boston College. She took classes in creative writing and psychology, contemporary painting and sculpture, and the history of art. Career She was an influential local figure in North Adams, Massachusetts, North Adams, in the The Berkshires, Berkshires, Massachusetts, due to her founding of the first working girl's club there. By the fall of 1921, she accepted the position of Executive Di ... [...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] |
