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(Encyclopedia)Schumann, Clara: see under Schumann, Robert Alexander. ...Adamson, Robert
(Encyclopedia)Adamson, Robert: see Hill, David Octavius. ...Stevens, Robert Livingston
(Encyclopedia)Stevens, Robert Livingston: see under Stevens, family. ...Beagle, ship
(Encyclopedia)Beagle, naval vessel: see Darwin, Charles Robert. ...post office
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(Encyclopedia)USO: see United Service Organizations. ...Henri, Robert
(Encyclopedia)Henri, Robert hĕnˈrī [key], 1865–1929, American painter and teacher, b. Cincinnati as Robert Henry Cozad. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888 he went to Paris, where ...Johnson, Robert
(Encyclopedia)Johnson, Robert, 1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper's son, he grew up absorbing the music of Delta bluesmen, learning the harmonic...Friends, Religious Society of
(Encyclopedia)Friends, Religious Society of, religious body originating in England in the middle of the 17th cent. under George Fox. The members are commonly called Quakers, originally a term of derision. The org...McCormick, Joseph Medill
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