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Morison

American  
[mawr-uh-suhn, mor-] / ˈmɔr ə sən, ˈmɒr- /

noun

  1. Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.


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Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

Hudson is the second manager the Bluebirds have sacked this season after they dismissed Steve Morison in September.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2023

Today, sensor-laden buoys in the Arctic Ocean are concentrated near North America, which Morison suspects has skewed pictures of ocean currents.

From Science Magazine Mar. 4, 2022

In 1950, the Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison lamented that the Progressives were “robbing the people of their heroes” and “insulting their folk-memory of the great figures whom they admired.”

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2021

Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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