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(Encyclopedia) hooks, bell, 1952–2021, American author, poet, social critic, and Black feminist, b. Hopkinsville, Ky., as Gloria Jean Watkins, Stanford…Bell Gardens
(Encyclopedia) Bell Gardens, city (2020 pop. 39,501), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1961. Manufactures include tools, motor…Bell, Andrew
(Encyclopedia) Bell, Andrew, 1753–1832, British educator, b. St. Andrews, Scotland. After seven years in Virginia as a tutor, he returned to England, was ordained a deacon, and later (1789) became…Bell Island
(Encyclopedia) Bell Island, island, SE N.L., Canada, in Conception Bay, off the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. The island is 6 mi (9.7 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide. Its famous undersea iron mines…bell metal
(Encyclopedia) bell metal: see bronze.telephone
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Hand telephone telephone, device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. The telephones now in general use evolved from…change ringing
(Encyclopedia) change ringing: see bell.chime
(Encyclopedia) chime, in music: see bell.carillon
(Encyclopedia) carillon, in music: see bell.Boyle, Willard Sterling
(Encyclopedia) Boyle, Willard Sterling, 1924–2011, Canadian-American solid-state physicist, b. Amherst, N.S., Canada, Ph.D. McGill Univ., Montreal, 1950. Boyle was a researcher at Bell Laboratories…Trending
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