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The sad life of William Chester Minor - one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who was held in a lunatic asylum for murder at the time | The
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Storia di Chester Minor, il pazzo assassino che fu tra i padri della cultura britannica - Il Piccolo
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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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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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester | Goodreads
Wild Tale of the Murderer Who Wrote Oxford English Dictionary In Asylum | by Esh | Lessons from History | Medium
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DR. WILLIAM MINOR (1834 -1920) Insane Doctor Who Contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary | FORGOTTEN NEWSMAKERS
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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The Oxford English Dictionary was largely written by a murderer William Chester Minor while he was at a mental asylum – Quiet Ambience
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