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North College Hill

(Encyclopedia) North College Hill, city (1990 pop. 11,002), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; inc. as a city 1940. It is mostly residential. The Clovernook Center for the Blind there has…

Charlestown, town, St. Kitts-Nevis

(Encyclopedia) Charlestown, town on the island of Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Charlestown is the chief town and port of the island. Sugar…

Bondfield, Margaret Grace

(Encyclopedia) Bondfield, Margaret Grace, 1873–1953, British political and trade union leader. A Labour member of Parliament (1923–24, 1926–31), she served as secretary to the minister of labor (1924…

Louise of Savoy, duchesse d'Angoulême

(Encyclopedia) Louise of Savoy, duchesse d'AngoulêmeLouise of Savoy, duchesse d'Angoulêmedüshĕsˈ däNg&oomacr;lĕmˈ [key], 1476–1531, regent of France; daughter of Duke Philip II of Savoy and…

Fuller, Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer, lecturer, and public intellectual, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities in the…

Mead, Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Mead, Margaret, 1901–78, American anthropologist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. In 1926 she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from…

Mitchell, Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949, American novelist, b. Atlanta, Ga. Her one novel, Gone with the Wind (1936; Pulitzer Prize), a romantic, panoramic portrait of the Civil War and…

Drabble, Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Drabble, Margaret, 1939–, English novelist, b. Sheffield, Yorkshire; sister of A. S. Byatt. Drabble's rigorous and unsentimentally realistic vision of an England split between…

Notable Female Scientists

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