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Klein, Ralph Phillip

(Encyclopedia)Klein, Ralph Phillip, 1942–2013, Canadian politician, b. Calgary. He served in the Canadian air force and worked in public relations and as a weathercaster and reporter in radio and television befor...

Dehaene, Jean-Luc

(Encyclopedia)Dehaene, Jean-Luc, 1940–2014, Belgian political leader, b. Montepellier, France. A member of the Flemish Christian People's (after 2001, Christian Democratic) party, he held numerous administrative ...

Clergy Reserves

(Encyclopedia)Clergy Reserves, those lands set apart in Upper and Lower Canada under the British Constitutional Act of 1791 “for the support and maintenance of a Protestant clergy.” “Protestant clergy” was ...

Applegate, Jesse

(Encyclopedia)Applegate, Jesse, 1811–88, American pioneer in Oregon, b. Kentucky. With his family he moved (1821) to Missouri, and there in 1843 he joined the Great Migration of more than 900 people over the Oreg...

Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple

(Encyclopedia)Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856–1929, American economist, b. St. Clair, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1878, Ph.D. Univ. of Halle, 1885. He was professor of political economy (1891–1912) at Cornell...

Sinha, Satyendra Prassano, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur

(Encyclopedia)Sinha, Satyendra Prassano, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur sətĕnˈdrə prəsänˈô sĭnˈhä [key], 1864–1928, Indian statesman. A successful lawyer, he was the first Indian to hold several important a...

Orban, Ludovic

(Encyclopedia)Orban, Ludovic, 1963–, Romanian political leader. A member of the National Liberal party (PNL), he held government posts and was a city councilor in Bucharest in the 1990s before becoming Bucharest'...

Perry, William James

(Encyclopedia)Perry, William James, 1927–, U.S. government official, b. Vandergrift, Pa. A Ph.D. in mathematics, former Stanford engineering professor, and founder of a military electronics firm, he served (1977...

Thanom Kittikachorn

(Encyclopedia)Thanom Kittikachorn täˈno͝om kĭtˌəkəchôrnˈ [key], 1911–2004, Thai political and military leader. He entered the army in 1929, rising to command of a division by 1950. After supporting a cou...

Eulenburg, Philipp, Fürst zu

(Encyclopedia)Eulenburg, Philipp, Fürst zu fēˈlĭp fürst tso͞o oiˈlən-bo͝orkh [key], 1847–1921, German diplomat, friend and confidential adviser of Emperor William II. He served (1894–1902) as ambassado...
 

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