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2007 Midterm Elections: The Senate
Dates in left column indicate term in office; birth years are given in parentheses after party affiliation. All terms are for six years and expire in January. Senators listed in…1994 Academy Awards
The 1994 Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.Best PictureForrest Gump, Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, producers (Paramount)Four…Goldsmith, Oliver
(Encyclopedia) Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?–1774, Anglo-Irish author. The son of an Irish clergyman, he was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1749. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leiden,…Goldwater, Barry Morris
(Encyclopedia) Goldwater, Barry Morris, 1909–98, U.S. senator (1953–65, 1969–87), b. Phoenix, Ariz. He studied at the Univ. of Arizona, but left in 1929 to enter his family's department-store…Robert Hampton STEELE, Congress, CT (1938)
STEELE Robert Hampton , a Representative from Connecticut; born in Hartford, Conn., November 3, 1938; attended the Wethersfield, Conn., public schools; B.A., Amherst College, Mass., 1960; M.A.,…Brant, Joseph
(Encyclopedia) Brant, Joseph, 1742–1807, chief of the Mohawk. His Mohawk name is usually rendered as Thayendanegea. He served under Sir William Johnson in the French and Indian War, and Johnson sent…Wade, Benjamin Franklin
(Encyclopedia) Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 1800–1878, U.S. senator from Ohio (1851–69), b. near Springfield, Mass. He moved (1821) to Ohio and studied law. He was successively prosecuting attorney of…Hubbard, L. Ron
(Encyclopedia) Hubbard, L. Ron: see Scientology, Church of.Lowry, L. S.
(Encyclopedia) Lowry, L. S. (Laurence Stephen Lowry), 1887–1976, English painter and printmaker, b. Manchester, studied Municipal College of Art (later Manchester Metropolitan Univ.). He is…Mencken, H. L.
(Encyclopedia) Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis Mencken)Mencken, H. L.mĕngˈkən, mĕnˈ– [key], 1880–1956, American editor, author, and critic, b. Baltimore, studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic. Probably…Trending
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