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(Encyclopedia)brown coal: see lignite.Brown Deer
(Encyclopedia)Brown Deer, village (2020 pop. 12,507), Milwaukee co., SE Wis., on the Milwaukee River; inc. 1955. It is a residential suburb N of Milwaukee; consumer g...brown hematite
(Encyclopedia)brown hematite: see limonite.brown thrush
(Encyclopedia)brown thrush: see mimic thrush.Phaeophyta
(Encyclopedia)Phaeophyta fēŏfˈətə [key], phylum (division) of the kingdom Protista consisting of those organisms commonly called brown algae. Many of the world's familiar seaweeds are members of Phaeophyta. Th...Taussig, Helen Brooke
(Encyclopedia)Taussig, Helen Brooke, 1898–1986, American physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1927. She spent her entire career at Johns Hopkins, where she founded the field of pediatric card...Thomas, Helen Amelia
(Encyclopedia)Thomas, Helen Amelia, 1920–2013, American journalist, b. Winchester, Ky., grad Wayne State Univ. (B.A., 1942). The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, she was a pioneering woman journalist in an era do...Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen
(Encyclopedia)Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen, 1948–, Australian-American molecular biologist, b. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1975. Blackburn was a professor at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, fro...John Carter Brown Library
(Encyclopedia)John Carter Brown Library: see Brown, John Carter. ...Séquard, Charles Édouard Brown-
(Encyclopedia)Séquard, Charles Édouard Brown-: see Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard. ...Browse by Subject
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