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Hunt, Holman
(Encyclopedia)Hunt, Holman: see Hunt, William Holman. ...Macleod, Fiona
(Encyclopedia)Macleod, Fiona: see Sharp, William. ...Livingston, William
(Encyclopedia)Livingston, William: see under Livingston, family. ...Morgan, William
(Encyclopedia)Morgan, William: see Anti-Masonic party. ...Wordsworth, Dorothy
(Encyclopedia)Wordsworth, Dorothy: see under Wordsworth, William. ...Wright, William Henry
(Encyclopedia)Wright, William Henry: see Wright, Harry. ...Freedom Riders
(Encyclopedia)Freedom Riders, American civil-rights demonstrators who engaged (1961) in nonviolent protests against segregation of public interstate buses and terminals in the South. From the 1940s several federal ...Gordy, Berry, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Gordy, Berry, Jr., 1929–, African-American music-industry executive, b. Detroit. After stints in the army and as a professional boxer, Gordy opened a ...econometrics
(Encyclopedia)econometrics, technique of economic analysis that expresses economic theory in terms of mathematical relationships and then tests it empirically through statistical research. Econometrics attempts to ...King, B. B.
(Encyclopedia)King, B. B., 1925–2015, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the guitar at 12, was ...Browse by Subject
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