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Fort Henry, in Canadian history
(Encyclopedia) Fort Henry: see Kingston, Ont., Canada.Stone Mountain Memorial
(Encyclopedia) Stone Mountain Memorial, memorial to the Confederacy, consisting of the equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved on the northern face of Stone…Adams, Herbert Baxter
(Encyclopedia) Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850–1901, American historian, b. Shutesbury, near Amherst, Mass. In 1876, the year he received his doctorate at Heidelberg, he became one of the original…Bar Harbor
(Encyclopedia) Bar Harbor, town (2020 pop. 5,089), SE Maine, on Mount Desert Island and on Frenchman Bay; settled 1763, inc. 1796. It was…Avestan
(Encyclopedia) AvestanAvestanəvĕsˈtən [key], language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. One of the earliest forms of the Iranian…bronchoscope
(Encyclopedia) bronchoscopebronchoscopebrŏngˈkəskōpˌ [key], long, tubular instrument with a light at the tip that is inserted through the windpipe and bronchial tubes to examine these structures. By…Carbondale
(Encyclopedia) Carbondale. 1 City (2020 pop. 21,857), Jackson co., S Ill.; inc. 1869. It is a railroad division point and the retail center of a coal-…Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1795–1858, American political leader and cabinet officer
(Encyclopedia) Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1795–1858, American political leader and cabinet officer, b. Columbia co., N.Y. Butler, like his former law associate, Martin Van Buren, was a member of the…Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr., 1932–, African-American leader, clergyman, and public official, b. New Orleans. He was a leading civil-rights activist in the 1960s and, as a Democrat from…Biddle, Francis Beverley
(Encyclopedia) Biddle, Francis Beverley, 1886–1968, U.S. Attorney General (1941–45), b. Paris, France, of American parents. Secretary to Associate Justice O. W. Holmes (1912), he became a successful…Trending
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