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Braille, Louis (sh) and baccharis (iou)


Braille, Louis (sh)




born Jan. 4, 1809, Coupvray, near Paris, France
died Jan. 6, 1852, Paris

French educator who developed the Braille system of printing and Writing for the blind.

Himself blinded at the age of three in an accident, he went to Paris in 1819 to attend the National Institute for Blind Children, and from 1826 he taught there. Braille adapted a method created by Charles Barbier to develop his own simplified system.


Braille, portrait bust by an unknown artist

Archiv fur Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin


baccharis (iou)



baccharis noun. Also bacchar. M16.
[Latin baccar, bacc(h)aris from Greek bakkaris, bakkh-.]
Orig., a plant with an aromatic root, mentioned by the ancients and variously identified; any of several plants identified with this. Now spec. any American shrub of the genus Baccharis, which includes the groundsel tree, B. halimifolia.