William Chester Minor Wrote The Oxford English Dictionary While In An Asylum Because He Committed Murder
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How the Oxford English Dictionary Went from Murderer's Pet Project to Internet Lexicon - Atlas Obscura
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Will Byrnes's review of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Quizzine - William Chester Minor (W. C. Minor), he was an American army doctor but soon was overcome with paranoia and mental illness. By 1868, his condition had progressed to the point
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Storia di Chester Minor, il pazzo assassino che fu tra i padri della cultura britannica - Il Piccolo
Wild Tale of the Murderer Who Wrote Oxford English Dictionary In Asylum | by Esh | Lessons from History | Medium
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester | Goodreads
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