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Barish, Barry Clark
(Encyclopedia) Barish, Barry Clark, 1936–, American experimental physicist, b. Omaha, Nebr. Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1962. Barish has been a professor (emeritus from 2005) at the…state flowers
(Encyclopedia) state flowers. Each state of the United States has designated, usually by legislative action, one flower as its floral emblem; the rose has been designated by Congress as the national…Banks, Dennis James
(Encyclopedia) Banks, Dennis James, 1937–2017, Native American civil-rights activist, b. Leech Lake Reservation, Minn. Of Ojibwa (Chippewa) heritage, he helped found the American Indian Movement (…sequoia
(Encyclopedia) sequoiasequoiasĭkwoiˈə [key], name for the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and for the big tree, or giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), both huge, coniferous evergreen trees of…Santa Barbara Islands
(Encyclopedia) Santa Barbara Islands, California: see Channel Islands.Owens Lake
(Encyclopedia) Owens Lake: see under Owens, river, California.Cortés, Sea of
(Encyclopedia) Cortés, Sea of: see California, Gulf of.Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(Encyclopedia) Scripps Institution of Oceanography: see California, Univ. of.Wesleyan University
(Encyclopedia) Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the…Shoshone
(Encyclopedia) Shoshone or ShoshoniShoshoneshəshōˈnē [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see…Trending
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