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(Encyclopedia) oceanography, study of the seas and oceans. The major divisions of oceanography include the geological study of the ocean floor (see plate tectonics) and features; physical…Great Dividing Range
(Encyclopedia) Great Dividing Range, crest line of the Eastern Highlands of Australia. For the most part it separates rivers draining into the Pacific Ocean from those flowing into the Indian Ocean…Deep Sea Drilling Project
(Encyclopedia) Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.S. program designed to investigate the evolution of ocean basins by core drilling of ocean sediments and underlying oceanic crust. Funded by the National…Eleanor Shuman 1998 Deaths
Eleanor ShumanAge: 87 one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking ocean liner Titanic. Died: March 7, 1998.Hideo ShimaR - ZFrank SinatraKnight, Frank Hyneman
(Encyclopedia) Knight, Frank Hyneman, 1885–1972, American economist, b. McLean County, Ill., Ph.D. Cornell, 1916. He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–62). Knight's most influential work…Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida
(Encyclopedia) Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa GeertruidaBosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruidaäˈnä l&oomacr;ēˈzä hārtroiˈdä bôsˈbōm-t&oobreve;săNˈ [key], 1812–86, Dutch novelist. She…Munsey, Frank Andrew
(Encyclopedia) Munsey, Frank AndrewMunsey, Frank Andrewmŭnˈsē [key], 1854–1925, American publisher and author, b. Mercer, Maine. In 1882 he quit a telegraph operator's job in Maine to begin a career…Maier, Vivian
(Encyclopedia) Maier, Vivian, 1926–2009, American photographer, b. Bronx, N.Y. She spent much of her childhood and early adulthood in France, where she began photographing street scenes; she moved in…Kellogg, Frank Billings
(Encyclopedia) Kellogg, Frank Billings, 1856–1937, American lawyer, U.S. senator (1917–23), and cabinet member, b. Potsdam, N.Y. As a child, he moved to Olmstead co., Minn. He later studied law and…Ford, Richard
(Encyclopedia) Ford, Richard, 1944–, American novelist, b. Jackson, Miss.; grad. Michigan State Univ. (B.A., 1966), Univ. of California, Irvine (M.F.A., 1970). Ford's concerns are those of a moralist…Trending
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