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(Encyclopedia) Thomasville. 1 City (1990 pop. 17,457), seat of Thomas co., SW Ga., near the Fla. line; inc. 1831. It is a farm trade center, with a large fresh-vegetable market. Manufactures include…San Francisco Ballet
(Encyclopedia) San Francisco Ballet, America's first classical ballet company, est. 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet by the dancer Adolph Bolm.…Urey, Harold Clayton
(Encyclopedia) Urey, Harold ClaytonUrey, Harold Claytony&oobreve;rˈē [key], 1893–1981, American chemist, b. Walkerton, Ind., grad. Univ. of Montana (B.S., 1917), Ph.D. Univ. of California, 1923.…Stassen, Harold Edward
(Encyclopedia) Stassen, Harold EdwardStassen, Harold Edwardstăsˈən [key], 1907–2001, American public official and university president, b. West St. Paul, Minn. A Republican lawyer, he held his first…Cheyenne Mountain
(Encyclopedia) Cheyenne Mountain, c.9,565 ft (2,915 m), in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts., El Paso co., central Colo., SW of Colorado Springs. Halfway up the mountain, in North Cheyenne Park, is…Harold Nichols Biography
Harold NicholsAge: 79 a national champion wrestler who became one of the sport's most respected coaches; retired following the 1984–85 season; at Iowa St., where he coached for 32 years, he…Harold McMaster Biography
inventorBorn: 20 July 1916Best Known as: inventor of tempered glass Harold McMaster invented tempered glass which is indispensible in modern skyscrapers and…Brewer's: Harold the Dauntless
Son of Witikind, the Dane. “He was rocked on a buckler, and fed from a blade.” He became a Christian, like his father, and married Eivir, a Danish maid, who had been his page. (SirW.Scott…Brewer's: Harold's Stones
at Trelech (Monmouthshire). Three stones, one of which is fourteen feet above the ground, evidently no part of a circle. Probably boundary stones. (See Hare-Stone.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Childe Harold
A man sated of the world, who roams from place to place to flee from himself. The “childe” is, in fact, Lord Byron himself, who was only twenty-one when he began, and twenty-eight when he…Trending
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