CAPTAIN CHARLES KING
\kˈaptɪn t͡ʃˈɑːlz kˈɪŋ], \kˈaptɪn tʃˈɑːlz kˈɪŋ], \k_ˈa_p_t_ɪ_n tʃ_ˈɑː_l_z k_ˈɪ_ŋ]\
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An American novelist and descriptive writer; born at Albany, N. Y., 1844. He resigned from the United States army in 1879, becoming professor of military science and tactics at the University of Wisconsin (1881) and devoting his time largely to literature. He wrote a long series of novels treating of army and frontier life and people, among the best of which are: "The Colonel's Daughter" (1883), describing life in a frontier fort; "Kitty's Conquest" (1884), very popular; "Famous and Decisive Battles of the World" (1884); "The Colonel's Christmas Dinner and Other Stories" (1892); "Captain Close and Sergeant Croesus" (1895): also "Campaigning with Crook" (1890); "The Iron Brigade" (1902).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).