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Owen County, KY Social Statistics

Owen county kentucky dp 2 profile of selected social characteristics SubjectNumberPercent SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school2,396100.0Nursery school,…

Owen County, KY Economic Statistics

Owen county kentucky dp 3 profile of selected economic characteristics SubjectNumberPercent EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over8,215100.0In labor force4,89859.6Civilian…

Owen County, KY Housing Statistics

Owen county kentucky dp 4 profile of selected housing characteristics SubjectNumberPercent Total housing units5,345100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached3,48165.11-unit, attached320.…

Kwan, Michelle Wingshan

(Encyclopedia) Kwan, Michelle Wingshan, 1980–, American figure skater, b. Torrance, Calif., In 1994 she won the silver medal at the U.S. National Championships and the gold medal in the World Junior…

Tarbell, Ida Minerva

(Encyclopedia) Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, American author, b. Erie co., Pa., grad. Allegheny College (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883). One of the leading muckrakers, she is remembered for her…

Richardson, Sir Owen Willans

(Encyclopedia) Richardson, Sir Owen Willans, 1879–1959, British physicist, Ph.D. University College, London, 1904. He was a professor at Princeton from 1906 to 1913 and at King's College London from…

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, 1st earl of Lytton

(Encyclopedia) Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, 1st earl of Lytton, pseud. Owen Meredith, 1831–91, English diplomat and poet; son of the novelist, Bulwer-Lytton. He was in the diplomatic service from…

O'Neill, Owen Roe

(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Owen Roe, 1590?–1649, Irish chieftain. Nephew of Hugh O'Neill, 2d earl of Tyrone, he left Ireland after the “flight of the earls” in 1607 and spent 30 years in the Spanish…

Arthur, Owen Seymour

(Encyclopedia) Arthur, Owen Seymour, 1949–2020, Barbadian political leader. An economist, he worked for the Jamaican national planning agency in the 1970s and the Barbados ministry of finance and…

nuclear winter

(Encyclopedia) nuclear winter, theory holding that the smoke and dust produced by a large nuclear war would result in a prolonged period of cold on the earth. The earliest version of the theory,…