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Sam Boyd 2001 Deaths

Sam BoydAge: 86 Baylor football star who later coached the team to their only Sugar Bowl berth, a 13-7 victory over Tennessee in 1956; all-conference wide receiver for the Bears in 1937 and…

Sam Francis 2002 Deaths

Sam FrancisAge: 88 University of Nebraska fullback; earned All-America honors and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting in 1936; placed fourth in the shot put at the 1936 Berlin Olympics;…

Sam's Time Travel Essay

Sam witnesses the parting of the Red Sea and other miracles Related Links Moses How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay Punctuation…

Sam M. Raimi Biography

Sam M. Raimidirector, screenwriter, actorBorn: 10/23/1959Birthplace: Royal Oak, Michigan This creative director has won a cult following for his campy horror films Evil Dead (1983), Evil Dead…

Murnane, Gerald

(Encyclopedia) Murnane, Gerald, 1939–, Australian writer, B.A. Univ. of Melbourne, 1969. His first two novels, Tamarisk Row (1974) and A Lifetime on Clouds (1976), are semiautobiographical…

Midland, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Midland. 1 City (1990 pop. 38,053), seat of Midland co., central Mich., in the Saginaw valley at the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa rivers; inc. 1887. Midland owes its…

roe deer

(Encyclopedia) roe deer, small, short-horned deer, Capreolus capreolus, of Britain and Europe and as far east as China and Siberia. Its coat is golden red in summer, darkening to brown or even black…

bighorn, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep, wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, of W North America, formerly plentiful in mountains from SW Canada to N Mexico. Indiscriminate hunting, disease, and…

Colt, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Colt, Samuel, 1814–62, American inventor, b. Hartford, Conn. In 1835–36, he patented a revolving-breech pistol and founded at Paterson, N.J., the Patent Arms Company, which failed in…

Warner Brothers

(Encyclopedia) Warner Brothers, American movie studio executives and producers. Sons of poor E European Jewish immigrants, the brothers were Harry Morris (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), Samuel Louis…