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Hess, Victor Francis
(Encyclopedia) Hess, Victor Francis, 1883–1964, American physicist, b. Austria, Ph.D. Univ. of Graz, 1906. After teaching at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck, he came to the United States in…Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
(Encyclopedia) Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold, 1919–2004, British electrical engineer. A radar expert for the Royal Air Force during World War II, in the 1950s Hounsfield began developing computer…wood
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Wood A. Cross section of a woody stem B. Enlarged view, showing xylem, phloem, and cambium wood, botanically, the xylem tissue that forms the bulk of the stem of a woody plant…Cormack, Allan MacLeod
(Encyclopedia) Cormack, Allan MacLeodCormack, Allan MacLeodməkloudˈ, côrˈmək [key], 1924–98, American physicist, b. Johannesburg, South Africa. After studying at the Univ. of Cape Town (B.S. physics…Darwin, Charles Galton
(Encyclopedia) Darwin, Charles Galton, 1887–1962, English physicist and administrator. Educated at Cambridge, he worked under Ernest Rutherford at Manchester, where he collaborated with H. G. J.…Bigfoot
(Encyclopedia) Bigfoot or Sasquatch, large apelike creature reportedly sighted hundreds of times in the United States and Canada (most often in the Pacific Northwest) since the mid-19th cent. Similar…Rages
(Encyclopedia) RagesRagesrāˈjēz [key] or RhagaeRagesrāˈjē [key], ancient and medieval city of Persia, located on the site of modern-day Ray, N Iran, a suburb of Tehran. Rages is mentioned in the…Top 10 DVD/Blu-Ray Titles, 2014
Find the top 10 DVD sales of 2014, including the movie title and distributor. Frozen was the best-selling DVD in 2014. Frozen (Disney/Buena Vista Home Video) Hunger Games: Catching Fire (…LARSEN, Richard Ray (Rick), Congress, WA (1965)
LARSEN, Richard Ray (Rick), a Representative from Washington; born in Arlington, Snohomish County, Wash., June 15, 1965; B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., 1987; M.P.A., University…Richard Ray (Rick) LARSEN, Congress, WA (1965)
LARSEN Richard Ray (Rick) , a Representative from Washington; born in Arlington, Snohomish County, Wash., June 15, 1965; graduated from Arlington High School, Arlington, Wash., 1983; B.A., Pacific…Trending
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