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Biographies: Notable Economists

Notable Economists Beatrice Potter Webb See also Three Economists and Their Theories People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Overview of Economics GDP…

Douglas, William Orville

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, William Orville, 1898–1980, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939–75), b. Maine, Minn. He received his law degree from Columbia in 1925 and later…

New Granada

(Encyclopedia) New GranadaNew Granadagrənäˈdə [key], former Spanish colony, N South America. It included at its greatest extent present Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Between 1499 and 1510…

Calder, Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Calder, AlexanderCalder, Alexanderkôlˈdər [key], 1898–1976, American sculptor, b. Philadelphia; son of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Mine Calder, prominent…

Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses

// Cite Astronomers, astrophysicists, chemists, and physicists Jump to a category: AstronomersAstrophysicistsChemistsPhysicists Astronomers Adams, John Couch Al-…

Teens' Top 10 Young Adult Books, 2003

Teen readers across the country vote for the best from the American Library Association Related Links Teen Read Week from the ALA Teens' Favorite Funny Books…

Brewer's: St. Stephen's

The Houses of Parliament are so called, because, at one time, the Commons used to sit in St. Stephen's Chapel. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. Stephen's…

Brewer's: Simple

(The). Charles III. of France. (879, 893-929.) Simples cut. (See Battersea.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Simple SimonSimony A B C D E F G H I…

Poems: Sweeney Among the Nightingales

by T. S. Eliot Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning ServiceThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockSweeney Among the Nightingales Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to…