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Grandview

(Encyclopedia) Grandview, city (2020 pop. 26,209), Jackson co., W Mo., S of Kansas City; inc. 1912. Hardware, chemicals, transportation equipment,…

Stuart, James Ewell Brown

(Encyclopedia) Stuart, James Ewell Brown (Jeb Stuart), 1833–64, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Patrick co., Va. Most of his U.S. army service was with the 1st Cavalry in…

Hill, A. P.

(Encyclopedia) Hill, A. P. (Ambrose Powell Hill), 1825–65, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Culpeper, Va. He served briefly in the Mexican War and had a varied army career until he…

The Borrowers

Director:Peter HewittWriters:John Kamps and Gavin ScottDirectors of Photography:Trevor Brooker and John FennerEditor:David FreemanMusic:Harry Gregson-WilliamsProduction Designer:Gemma…

Turner, Frederick Jackson

(Encyclopedia) Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861–1932, American historian, b. Portage, Wis. He taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin from 1885 to 1910 except for a year spent in graduate study at Johns…

Calhoun, John Caldwell

(Encyclopedia) Calhoun, John CaldwellCalhoun, John Caldwellkălˌh&oomacr;nˈ [key], 1782–1850, American statesman and political philosopher, b. near Abbeville, S.C., grad. Yale, 1804. He was an…

Grand Teton National Park

(Encyclopedia) Grand Teton National ParkGrand Teton National Parktētŏnˈ, tēˈtŏn [key], 309,993 acres (125,503 hectares), NW Wyo.; est. 1929. The park, which includes Jackson Lake and part of Jackson…

Jackson, Ketanji Onyika Brown

(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Ketanji Onyika Brown, American lawyer, jurist, and Supreme Court Justice, b. Washington, D.C., 1970; grad. Harvard-Radcliff…

McLean, John

(Encyclopedia) McLean, JohnMcLean, Johnməklānˈ [key], 1785–1861, American political figure and jurist, b. Morris co., N.J. His family moved to Ohio, where he studied law, was admitted (1807) to the…

spiritual

(Encyclopedia) spiritual, a religious folk song of American origin, particularly associated with African-American Protestants of the southern United States. The African-American spiritual,…