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Robert's Rules of Order
(Encyclopedia)Robert's Rules of Order: see parliamentary law; Robert, Henry Martyn. ...Robert, Henry Martyn
(Encyclopedia)Robert, Henry Martyn, 1837–1923, American military engineer, b. Robertville, S.C., grad. West Point, 1857. He is best known as the author of a book on parliamentary law, Pocket Manual of Rules of Or...Archipenko, Alexander
(Encyclopedia)Archipenko, Alexander ärkhĭpĕnˈkō [key], 1887–1964, Ukrainian-American sculptor, b. Kiev. He moved to Moscow in 1906 and to Paris in 1908. There he began to adapt cubist technique to sculpture....Stephenson, George
(Encyclopedia)Stephenson, George, 1781–1848, British engineer, noted as a locomotive builder. He learned to read and write in night school at the age of 18, while working in a colliery. He constructed (1814) a tr...Maurocordatos, Alexander
(Encyclopedia)Maurocordatos, Alexander: see Mavrokordatos. ...Wodrow, Robert
(Encyclopedia)Wodrow, Robert wo͝odˈrō [key], 1679–1734, Scottish ecclesiastical historian. His principal work is The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution (...Stirling, Lord
(Encyclopedia)Stirling, Lord: see Alexander, William. ...Stamboliski, Aleksandr
(Encyclopedia)Stamboliski, Aleksandr: see Stambuliski, Alexander. ...Nasmyth, Patrick
(Encyclopedia)Nasmyth, Patrick: see Nasmyth, Alexander. ...Bach system
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