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Jackson, Ketanji Onyika Brown
(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Ketanji Onyika Brown, American lawyer, jurist, and Supreme Court Justice, b. Washington, D.C., 1970; grad. Harvard-Radcliff…Brown, Charles Quinton, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Charles Quinton, Jr., 1962–, American air force general, b. San Antonio, Tex., B.S Texas Tech Univ., 1984, M.S. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., 1994. An ROTC graduate, he was…Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa (Brown)
(Encyclopedia) Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa (Brown), 1825–1921, American Unitarian minister, b. Henrietta, N.Y., grad. Oberlin College, 1847, and Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1850. One of 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…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…Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
(Encyclopedia) Glinka, Mikhail IvanovichGlinka, Mikhail Ivanovichmēkhəyēlˈ ēväˈnəvĭch glēnˈkä [key], 1804–57, first of the nationalist school of Russian composers. His two operas, A Life for the Czar…Arsonval, Arsène d'
(Encyclopedia) Arsonval, Arsène d'Arsonval, Arsène d'ärsĕnˈ därsôNvälˈ [key], 1851–1940, French physicist and physician. He worked under Claude Bernard and under C. E. Brown-Séquard (whom he…copaiba
(Encyclopedia) copaibacopaibakōpāˈbə, –pīˈ– [key], oleoresin (see resin) obtained from several species of tropical South American trees of the genus Copaifera. The thick, transparent exudate varies…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…Trending
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