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Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron
(Encyclopedia) Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st BaronBaden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baronbāˈdən-pōˈəl [key], 1857–1941, British…Babbitt, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, IrvingBabbitt, Irvingbăbˈĭt [key], 1865–1933, American scholar, b. Dayton, Ohio. At Harvard as professor of French literature from 1912 until his death, he was a vigorous…Alekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevich
(Encyclopedia) Alekseyev, Mikhail VasilyevichAlekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevichmēkhəēlˈvəsēˈlyəvĭch əlyĭksyāˈəf [key], 1857–1918, Russian general, chief of staff (1915–17) of Czar Nicholas II. With other…Abel, Niels Henrik
(Encyclopedia) Abel, Niels HenrikAbel, Niels Henriknēls hĕnˈrĭk äˈbəl [key], 1802–29, Norwegian mathematician. While a student at the Univ. of Christiania (Oslo) he did fundamental work on the…Ekurhuleni
(Encyclopedia) Ekurhuleni, metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa. Ekurhuleni largely encompasses the East Rand region of Gauteng.…Flood, James Clair
(Encyclopedia) Flood, James Clair, 1826–89, American silver magnate, b. New York City. Having been apprenticed to a carriage maker, he left to join the California gold rush in 1849. The following…Brown, Jerry
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Jerry (Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.), 1938–, American political leader, b. San Francisco. The son of Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown (1905–96), governor of California (1959–67), Brown…Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich
(Encyclopedia) Borodin, Aleksandr PorfirevichBorodin, Aleksandr Porfirevichəlyĭksänˈdər pərfēˈrĭvĭch bôrôdyēnˈ [key], 1833–87, Russian composer, chemist, and physician. He studied at the academy of…truck farming
(Encyclopedia) truck farming, horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. It is usually less intensive and diversified than market…Truth, Sojourner
(Encyclopedia) Truth, Sojourner, c.1797–1883, American abolitionist, a freed slave, originally called Isabella, b. Ulster co., N.Y. Convinced that she…Trending
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