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Autry, Gene
(Encyclopedia)Autry, Gene (Orvon Grover Autry), 1907–98, American entertainer and businessman, b. Tioga Springs, Tex. Probably the most successful of the movies' singing cowboys, Autry began singing o...Oswald, Lee Harvey
(Encyclopedia)Oswald, Lee Harvey, 1939–63, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, b. New Orleans. Oswald spent most of his boyhood in Fort Worth, Tex. Later, he attended a Dallas high school, and enlisted (1956) i...Agassiz, Lake
(Encyclopedia)Agassiz, Lake ăgˈəsē [key], glacial lake of the Pleistocene epoch, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, 250 mi (400 km) wide, formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet beginning some 14,000 years ag...Charles the Bad
(Encyclopedia)Charles the Bad: see Charles II, king of Navarre. ...Charles II, French king
(Encyclopedia)Charles II, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West. ...Charles II, king of Hungary
(Encyclopedia)Charles II, king of Hungary: see Charles III, king of Naples. ...Charles III, king of Hungary
(Encyclopedia)Charles III, king of Hungary: see Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor. ...Charles IV, king of Hungary
(Encyclopedia)Charles IV, king of Hungary: see Charles I, emperor of Austria. ...Charles I, king of Spain
(Encyclopedia)Charles I, king of Spain: see Charles V, Holy Roman emperor. ...Charles the Bald
(Encyclopedia)Charles the Bald, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West. ...Browse by Subject
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