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Warren, Earl

(Encyclopedia) Warren, Earl, 1891–1974, American public official and 14th chief justice of the United States (1953–69), b. Los Angeles. He graduated from the Univ. of California Law School in 1912.…

Barker, Eugene Campbell

(Encyclopedia) Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874–1956, American historian, b. Walker co., Tex. His distinguished teaching career, begun in 1899, was almost entirely at the Univ. of Texas. An outstanding…

Ames, Ezra

(Encyclopedia) Ames, Ezra, 1768–1836, American painter, b. Framingham, Mass. Early in his life he worked as a carriage painter, miniaturist, engraver, and decorator, first in Worcester, Mass., and…

Velikiye Luki

(Encyclopedia) Velikiye LukiVelikiye Lukivyĭlyēˈkēə l&oomacr;ˈkē [key], city (1989 pop. 114,000), W central European Russia, on the Lovat River. A railroad junction, it has industries producing…

Suwannee

(Encyclopedia) SuwanneeSuwanneeswôˈnē, swäˈ– [key], river, c.240 mi (390 km) long, rising in the Okefenokee Swamp, SE Ga., and winding generally S through N Fla. to the Gulf of Mexico; it is dredged…

Kearny, Stephen Watts

(Encyclopedia) Kearny, Stephen WattsKearny, Stephen Wattskärˈnē [key], 1794–1848, American general in the Mexican War, b. Newark, N.J. At the beginning of the Mexican War he was made commander of the…

Grodno

(Encyclopedia) GrodnoGrodnogrôdˈnô [key], Belarusian Horodno, city (1990 est. pop. 272,000), capital of Grodno region, NW Belarus, on the Neman River. A river port and an important railway center, it…

Stephen Jay Gould 2002 Deaths

Stephen Jay GouldAge: 60 revered paleontologist and science writer whose theories, including punctuated equilibrium (developed with Niles Eldredge), which asserted that evolutionary change in…

Stephen Vincent Benét: Lonely Burial

Lonely BurialStephen Vincent BenétThere were not many at that lonely place, Where two scourged hills met in a little plain. The wind cried loud in gusts, then low again. Three pines strained…

Stephens County, OK Census Data

Oklahoma Stephens County, Oklahoma People QuickFactsStephens CountyOklahomaPopulation, 2005 estimate 42,9463,547,884Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 -0.5%2.8%…