WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD
\wˈɪli͡əm tˈɒməs stˈɛd], \wˈɪliəm tˈɒməs stˈɛd], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m t_ˈɒ_m_ə_s s_t_ˈɛ_d]\
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An English journalist; born at Embleton, Northumberland, July 5, 1849. He is widely known as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Review of Reviews, which last he founded in January 1890. He published "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (1885). In 1893 he established Borderland, a periodical devoted to Spiritualism. "If Christ Came to Chicago" is another of his publications.
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).