See Also: Blair, Henry William(encyclopedia)
Henry, William(medicine)
Jackson, William Henry(encyclopedia)
Talbot, William Henry Fox(dictionary)
Seward, William Henry(dictionary)
Bragg, Sir William (Henry)(encyclopedia)
Lawes, Henry and William(encyclopedia)
Stiegel, Henry William(encyclopedia)
Harrison, William Henry(encyclopedia)
Ashley, William Henry(encyclopedia)

Aegina (sh) and Blair, Henry William (sh)


Aegina (sh)




Island in the Saronic group of Greece.

Located 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Piraeus, it has an area of 32 sq mi (83 sq km). Its chief town and port, Aegina, lies over the ancient town of the same name. Inhabited since งใ 3000 BC, it became a maritime power after the 7th century BC; its period of glory, reflected in Pindar's poetry, was in the 5th century BC. Its economic rivalry with Athens led to frequent warfare, and in 431 BC the Athenians deported all its population. It came under Roman rule in 133 BC. It was briefly the capital of independent Greece (1826-28).


The temple of Aphaea, Aegina, Greece

Susan McCartney-Photo Researchers


Blair, Henry William (sh)




born Dec. 6, 1834, Campton, N.H., U.S.
died March 14, 1920, Washington, D.C.

U.S. politician.

He practiced law from 1859 and served in the New Hampshire state legislature before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1875-79) and Senate (1879-91). In 1876 he sought to give revenues from the sale of public lands to the nation's schools, and in 1881 he proposed to "vitalize" the schools with a $120-million grant to the states; neither effort succeeded. He also advocated women's rights and racial justice.