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(Encyclopedia) Champion, uninc. community in the town of Green Bay, Brown co., NE Wis., NE of the city of Green Bay. It is noted for the Shrine of Our…delftware
(Encyclopedia) delftware. The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest…Tappan, Lewis
(Encyclopedia) Tappan, Lewis, 1788–1873, American abolitionist, b. Northampton, Mass. He became a partner in his brother Arthur's New York mercantile house in 1828 and in 1841 founded the first…Slye, Maud
(Encyclopedia) Slye, MaudSlye, Maudslī [key], 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor emeritus in 1945,…Shannon, Sir James Jebusa
(Encyclopedia) Shannon, Sir James Jebusa, 1862–1923, English portrait and figure painter, b. Auburn, N.Y. To study art he moved (1878) to London, where he won recognition from English society and…cowrie
(Encyclopedia) cowrie or cowrycowrieboth: kouˈrē [key], common name applied to marine gastropods belonging to the family Cypraeidae, a well-developed family of marine snails found in the tropics.…inchworm
(Encyclopedia) inchworm, name for the larvae of moths of the family Geometridae, a large, cosmopolitan group with over 1,200 species indigenous to North America. Also called measuring worms,…coatimundi
(Encyclopedia) coatimundicoatimundikōätˌēmŭnˈdē, –m&oobreve;nˈ– [key] or coaticoatimundikōätˈē [key], omnivore of North and South America related to the raccoon. The coatimundi has a long snout,…date
(Encyclopedia) date, name for a palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and for its edible fruit. Probably native to Arabia and North Africa, it has from earliest times been a principal food in many desert and…English sparrow
(Encyclopedia) English sparrow or house sparrow, small bird, Passer domesticus, common throughout most of the world. English sparrows are 4 to 7 in. (10–18 cm) long, with short, stout bills. The male…Trending
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