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Richard Parsons Biography
Richard Parsonsmedia executiveBorn: 4/4/1948Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York A native of Brooklyn, New York, Parsons graduated from the University of Hawaii, where he played varsity basketball…John T. Parsons
John T. ParsonsBorn: 1913Birthplace: Detroit, Mich. Numerical control of machine tools—Parsons built a milling machine which was fed data to automatically activate servo-mechanisms to perform…Kasey Chambers
Barricades and BrickwallsWarner Bros. While Australia's Kasey Chambers isn't yet anywhere near the writer that her idol Lucinda Williams is, she shows progress and promise-a-plenty on this…Rod GRAMS, Congress, MN (1948)
Senate Years of Service: 1995-2001 Party: Republican GRAMS Rod , a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minn., February 4, 1948; attended public…concentration
(Encyclopedia) concentration, in chemistry, measure of the relative proportions of two or more quantities in a mixture. The concentration of a solute is very important in studying chemical reactions…Beck Sea Change
Sea Change Geffen A musical chameleon, ever since his 1994 major label debut, Beck Hansen has played the part of the soul man, techno man, hip-hop lounge lizard, and king bee of junk culture. He'…cgs system
(Encyclopedia) cgs system, system of units of measurement based on the metric system and having the centimeter of length, the gram of mass, and the second of time as its fundamental units. Other cgs…penicillin
(Encyclopedia) penicillin, any of a group of chemically similar substances obtained from molds of the genus Penicillium that were the first antibiotic agents to be used successfully in the treatment…vancomycin
(Encyclopedia) vancomycinvancomycinvănˌkōmīˈsĭn [key], antibiotic resembling penicillin in the way it acts. It is derived from the bacterium Streptomyces orientalis, which was isolated from soil of…Morton, Levi Parsons
(Encyclopedia) Morton, Levi Parsons, 1824–1920, American banker, Vice President of the United States (1889–93), b. Shoreham, Vt. He engaged in business in Hanover, N.Y., and in Boston before…