KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST
\kˈɑːl d͡ʒˈə͡ʊnəz lˈʌdvɪɡ ˈɒlmkwɪst], \kˈɑːl dʒˈəʊnəz lˈʌdvɪɡ ˈɒlmkwɪst], \k_ˈɑː_l dʒ_ˈəʊ_n_ə_z l_ˈʌ_d_v_ɪ_ɡ ˈɒ_l_m_k_w_ɪ_s_t]\
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A notable Swedish poet, novelist, and miscellaneous writer; born in Stockholm, Nov. 28, 1793; died in Bremen, Sept. 26, 1866. A writer of great versatility, author of a series of educational works, treatises on the mental, moral, and political sciences, on philology, religion, mathematics, philosophy, and national economy, etc., of novels and tales, dramas, poems, lyric and epical. "The Book of the Rose", a collection of dramatic and lyric pieces, is his best known work. "It's All Right" and "The Palace", novels, "Araminta May" and "Skallnora's Will", tales, are also popular.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.