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Eric J.J. MASSA, Congress, NY (1959)

MASSA Eric J.J. , a Representative from New York; born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., September 16, 1959; B.S., United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1981; United States Navy, 1981…

John Eric ENSIGN, Congress, NV (1958)

Senate Years of Service: 2001-2011 Party: Republican ENSIGN John Eric , a Senator and a Representative from Nevada; born in Roseville, Placer County, Calif., March 25, 1958; graduated E.W. Clark…

Thorfinn Karlsefni

(Encyclopedia) Thorfinn KarlsefniThorfinn Karlsefnithôrˈfĭn kärlˈsĕvnē [key], fl. 1002–15, Norse leader of an attempt to colonize North America. He appeared in Greenland in 1002 and married Gudrid,…

Falls Church City, VA Census Data

People QuickFactsFalls Church cityVirginiaPopulation, 2005 estimate 10,7817,567,465Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 3.9%6.9%Population, 2000 10,3777,078,515Persons…

Brewer's: Heroes scratched off Church-doors

Militia officers were so called by Sheridan. The Militia Act enjoined that a list of all persons between eighteen and forty-five years of age must be affixed to the church door of the…

Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest

(Encyclopedia) Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest , 1917–2012, British Marxist historian, b. Alexandria, Egypt. Educated at Cambridge (Ph.D., 1951), he joined the Communist party there in 1936. He served in…

Myerson, Roger Bruce

(Encyclopedia) Myerson, Roger Bruce, 1951–, American economist, b. Boston, Mass., Ph.D. Harvard, 1976. He has taught at Northwestern Univ. (1976–2001) and the Univ. of Chicago (2001–). With Leonid…

Page, Larry

(Encyclopedia) Page, Larry (Lawrence Edward Page), 1973–, American business executive and computer scientist, b. East Lansing, Mich., grad Univ. of Michigan (B.S.E., 1995), Stanford (M.S., 1998).…

Cornell, Eric Allin

(Encyclopedia) Cornell, Eric Allin, 1961–, American physicist, b. Palo Alto, Calif., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. Since 1990, he has been a researcher at the Joint Institute for…