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Walter A. Haas Biography

Walter A. Haasbusiness executiveBorn: 5/11/1889Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif. Haas began his lifelong affiliation with Levi Strauss & Co. in 1914 when he married the grand-niece of its…

George A. Hormel Biography

George A. HormelmeatpackerBorn: 1860Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Hormel settled in Austin, Minnesota after working throughout the Midwest, opening the George A. Hormel and Company meat packing…

Raymond A. Kroc Biography

Raymond A. Kroc restaurateur Born: 10/5/1902 Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Having dabbled in everything from…

Michael A. Spence Biography

Michael A. Spence scholar, economistBorn: 1943Birthplace: Montclair, N.J. A bi-coastal economist specializing in the study of dynamic competition and the economics of information, he taught…

Charles A. Stone Biography

Charles A. Stone electrical engineerBorn: 1867Birthplace: Newton, Mass. Stone met his lifelong friend and partner, Edwin Webster, while they were studying electrical engineering at the…

Brewer's: A. vinculo matrimonii

(Latin) Divorced from marriage ties. A total divorce. A divorce a mensa et thoro is a partial divorce. The divorce a vinculo matrimonii is because the marriage was never legal, as in the…

Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland

Rev. Julius A. NieuwlandBorn: 1878Birthplace: Hansbeke, Belgium Synthetic Rubber (Neoprene)—He invented the first synthetic rubber, Neoprene, manufactured by the Du Pont Company, whose outstanding…

Alfred A. Knopf Biography

Alfred A. Knopfbook publisherBorn: 9/12/1892Birthplace: New York City A premier book publisher who paid as much attention to the typestyle and materials of the books he published as to the…

Beth-shan

(Encyclopedia) Beth-shanBeth-shanbĕth-shănˈ [key] or Beth-sheanBeth-sheanbĕth-shēˈən [key], ancient town, at the meeting of the Vale of Jezreel with the Jordan valley. It was the most strategic point…