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Bizerte

(Encyclopedia) Bizerte Bizerte bēzĕrtˈ [key], Arab. Banzart, city, N Tunisia, on the…

Richelieu

(Encyclopedia) RichelieuRichelieurĭshˈəl&oomacr; [key], river, c.75 mi (120 km) long, issuing from the north end of Lake Champlain, near the N.Y.–Que. border, and flowing N across S Que. to the…

Stinnes, Hugo

(Encyclopedia) Stinnes, HugoStinnes, Hugoh&oomacr;ˈgō shtĭnˈəs [key], 1870–1924, German industrialist. The son of a Westphalian mine owner, he founded his own company in 1892 and rapidly expanded…

Rous, Francis Peyton

(Encyclopedia) Rous, Francis Peyton, 1879–1970, American pathologist, b. Baltimore, educated at Johns Hopkins (B.A., 1900; M.D., 1905). He taught (1906–8) pathology at the Univ. of Michigan and in…

Sims, Christopher Albert

(Encyclopedia) Sims, Christopher Albert, 1942–, American economist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Harvard (1968). Sims has taught at Harvard (1967–70), the Univ. of Minnesota (1970–90), Yale (1990–99),…

Kennebec

(Encyclopedia) KennebecKennebeckĕnˈəbĕk [key], river, 164 mi (264 km) long, rising in Moosehead Lake, NW Maine, and flowing S to the Atlantic; the Androscoggin River is its chief tributary. Samuel de…