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Robert, Henry Martyn

(Encyclopedia) Robert, Henry Martyn, 1837–1923, American military engineer, b. Robertville, S.C., grad. West Point, 1857. He is best known as the author of a book on parliamentary law, Pocket Manual…

Stephenson, George

(Encyclopedia) Stephenson, George, 1781–1848, British engineer, noted as a locomotive builder. He learned to read and write in night school at the age of 18, while working in a colliery. He…

Biographies: Selected Labor Leaders

Selected Labor Leaders Cesar Estrada Chavez See also Cesar Estrada Chavez People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Labor Day Timeline: Labor Unions…

A Simple Wish

Director: Michael RitchieWriter: Jeff RothbergDirector of Photography:Ralf BodeEditor:Wil-liam ScharfMusic:Bruce BroughtonProduction Designer:Stephen HendricksonProducers:Sid, Bill and Jon…

1984 Men's Boxing Medalists

Weight Class Champion Lt. Flyweight (1053/4 lbs) Paul Gonzales, USA   Salvatore Todisco, ITA   Keith Mwila, ZAM / José Marcelino Bolivar, VEN Flyweight (1121/2) Steve McCrory…

Pairs—Olympic Figure Skating

Multiple gold medals: MEN–Pierre Brunet, Artur Dmitriev, Sergei Grinkov, Oleg Protopopov and Aleksandr Zaitsev (2). WOMEN–Irina Rodnina (3); Ludmila Belousova, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Andree…

Top 100 Works in World Literature

Source: Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2002. The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54…

Wodrow, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Wodrow, RobertWodrow, Robertw&oobreve;dˈrō [key], 1679–1734, Scottish ecclesiastical historian. His principal work is The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from…