Search

Search results

Displaying 391 - 400

Wright brothers

(Encyclopedia) Wright brothers, American airplane inventors and aviation pioneers. Orville Wright 1871–1948, was born in Dayton, Ohio, and Wilbur Wright, 1867–1912, near New Castle, Ind. Their…

cemetery

(Encyclopedia) cemetery, name used by early Christians to designate a place for burying the dead. First applied in Christian burials in the Roman catacombs, the word cemetery came into general usage…

Robert College

(Encyclopedia) Robert College: see Bosporus, Univ. of the.

Schumann, Clara

(Encyclopedia) Schumann, Clara: see under Schumann, Robert Alexander.

Beagle, ship

(Encyclopedia) Beagle, naval vessel: see Darwin, Charles Robert.

Jones, Bobby

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Bobby: see Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr.