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Cousin-Montauban, Charles Guillaume Marie
(Encyclopedia)Cousin-Montauban, Charles Guillaume Marie: see Palikao, Charles Guillaume Cousin-Montauban, comte de. ...Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl
(Encyclopedia)Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl: see Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden. ...Ioánnina
(Encyclopedia)Ioánnina yôäˈnēnä [key], city, capital of Ioánnina prefecture, NW Greece, in Epirus, o...Leonidas of Rhodes
(Encyclopedia)Leonidas of Rhodes rōdz [key], fl. 2d cent. b.c., ancient Greek athlete. He won three different foot races—the stadion, about 200 m, the diaulos, about 400m, and the hoplitodromos, in which athlete...Jefferts Schori, Katharine
(Encyclopedia)Jefferts Schori, Katharine, 1954–, American Episcopal bishop, b. Pensacola, Fla. An oceanographer (Ph.D. Oregon State Univ., 1983) who had worked with the National Marine Fisheries Service, she was ...Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman
(Encyclopedia)Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, American civil-rights workers in the South during the 1960s. Michael Schwerner (b. 1939) and Andrew Goodman (b. 1943), both white New Yorkers, went to Neshoba co., Miss...Sienkiewicz, Henryk
(Encyclopedia)Sienkiewicz, Henryk hĕnˈrĭk shĕnkyĕˈvēch [key], 1846–1916, Polish novelist and short-story writer. The best-known of Sienkiewicz's vivid historical novels is Quo Vadis? (1896, tr. 1896), conc...Foreman, George
(Encyclopedia)Foreman, George, 1948–, American boxer, b. Marshall, Tex. A high school dropout, Foreman learned to box in the Job Corps. In 1968 he was the Olympic heavyweight gold medalist. Foreman beat Joe Frazi...Goldstein, Joseph Leonard
(Encyclopedia)Goldstein, Joseph Leonard gōldˈstīn [key], 1940–, American molecular geneticist, b. Sumter, S.C., M.D. Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 1966. He worked as a biomedical researcher at the National Heart I...Tyndall, John
(Encyclopedia)Tyndall, John tĭnˈdəl [key], 1820–93, British physicist, b. Ireland. He became (1853) professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution and in 1867 succeeded Michael Faraday, his friend an...Browse by Subject
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