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- Born
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12)September 12, 1880 Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Died
- January 29, 1956(1956-01-29) (aged 75) Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Notable credit
- The Baltimore Sun
- Occupations
- Journalist · essayist · satirist · social critic
- Parent
- August Mencken Sr.
- Relatives
- August Mencken Jr. (brother)
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- Journalist
- Essayist
- Satirist
- Cultural critic
- American English
- Scopes trial
- Dictionaries
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- Prose
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- German Germany
- Philosopher
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- World War II American entry into World War II
- Racist Racism in the United States
- Antisemitic
- Larry S. Gibson
- Militarism
- Union Square Union Square, Baltimore
Early life and education
- Baltimore
- Maryland
- August Mencken Sr.
- Cigar
- German ancestry German American
- German German language
- Happy Days Happy Days, 1880–1892
- Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Addison Joseph Addison
- Steele Richard Steele
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- Johnson Samuel Johnson
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- Baltimore City Hall
- War Memorial and City Hall Plaza War Memorial Plaza
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
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- Baltimore Morning Herald
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- Republican Republican Party (United States)
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- Henry A. Wallace
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Personal life
- Marion Bloom
- Sara Haardt
- Goucher College
- Alabama
- 19th Amendment Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Holy Spirit
- American South
- Tuberculosis
- Meningitis
- Sara Mayfield
- William Manchester
- Loudon Park Cemetery
Beliefs
- Theodore Dreiser
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Joseph Hergesheimer
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- Alfred Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Sr.
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Nodes215
Edges214
Triples166
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009302
Components1
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related to Books · 66
H. L. Mencken → Ancient, Baby, Book, Buffoonery, Burlesques, Calumny, Christmas Story, Correspondence, Damn, Democracy, EditorTreatise, Europe After, Fifth Series, First Series, Fourth Series, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, Ghostwriter, Gods, Happy Days
related to External links · 38
H. L. Mencken → American JournalismMencken, Archive, C-SPAN's American Writers, CenterH, Chicago Special Collections Research, Collection, Constitution, Digital Maryland, Dinges Collection, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Enoch Pratt Library, Gettysburg CollegeH, Goucher CollegeH, Guide, Internet ArchiveWorks, Journey Through HistoryH, June, LibriVox, Loyola University New OrleansFBI, Mencken
related to Personal life · 25
H. L. Mencken → Alabama, Amendment, American South, Baltimore, English, Even, German American, Goucher, Goucher College, Haardt, Haardt's, He, His Friends, Like, Marion Bloom, Mencken, On August, Sara Haardt, Sara Mayfield, Southern Album
related to Home · 17
H. L. Mencken → August, Baltimore, Baltimore National Heritage Area, Baltimore's Union Square, City Life Museums, Hollins Street, It, Maryland, Mencken House, Mencken House Museum, Mencken's, Mencken's Legacy, Preserve, Society, The, The City, University
related to Translations (excerpt) · 9
H. L. Mencken → Alfred, Friedrich Nietzsche, Introduced, Knopf, Mencken, New York, Project Gutenberg EBook, The Antichrist, Translated
Occupations · 4
H. L. Mencken → essayist, Journalist, satirist, social critic
Born · 1
H. L. Mencken → Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12)September 12, 1880 Baltimore, Maryland, US
Died · 1
H. L. Mencken → January 29, 1956(1956-01-29) (aged 75) Baltimore, Maryland, US
Notable credit · 1
H. L. Mencken → The Baltimore Sun
Parent · 1
H. L. Mencken → August Mencken Sr.
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| H. L. Mencken | Born | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12)September 12, 1880 Baltimore, Maryland, US | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Died | January 29, 1956(1956-01-29) (aged 75) Baltimore, Maryland, US | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Notable credit | The Baltimore Sun | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Occupations | Journalist | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Occupations | essayist | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Occupations | satirist | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Occupations | social critic | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Parent | August Mencken Sr. | 1.00 | infobox |
| H. L. Mencken | Relatives | August Mencken Jr. (brother) | 1.00 | infobox |
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| Caught Short | instance of | he asserted that books | 0.80 | text |
| H. L. Mencken | related to Books | George Bernard Shaw | 0.60 | section |
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