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Rooke, Sir George
(Encyclopedia) Rooke, Sir GeorgeRooke, Sir Georger&oobreve;k [key], 1650–1709, English admiral. In the War of the Grand Alliance he defeated a French fleet under the comte de Tourville in the…Cope, Edward Drinker
(Encyclopedia) Cope, Edward Drinker, 1840–97, American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and at the Smithsonian…Cui, César Antonovich
(Encyclopedia) Cui, César AntonovichCui, César Antonovichtsāzärˈ äntôˈnôvĭch küēˈ [key], 1835–1918, Russian composer and critic, a military engineer by profession. As a music critic in St. Petersburg…Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
(Encyclopedia) Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, across the Narrows at the entrance to New York harbor, linking the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island.…1998 Deaths: R - Z
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Jack Abramoff, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…Brewer's: Notarica
A principle by which the first letter of each word in the expression is used alone A. E. I. O. U.Austria's Empire Is Overall Universal. (See A. E. I. O. U.) ÆraA ER. A—i.e. Anno ERat…U.S. National and Open Champions: Doubles—Men
NATIONAL 1920 Bill Johnston–C. J. Griffin 1921–22 Bill Tilden–Vincent Richards…Morley, Sylvanus Griswold
(Encyclopedia) Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883–1948, American archaeologist, b. Chester, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1908. A specialist in Middle American archaeology and Mayan heiroglyphs, Morley did…Trending
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