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Notable Women in U.S. Government

Sandra Day O'Connor Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers…

Brewer's: Ediles

(2 syl.). Roman officers who had charge of the streets, bridges, aqueducts, temples, and city buildings generally. We call our surveyors city ediles sometimes. (Latin, ædes, a house.)…

Brewer's: Ednam

in Roxburghshire, near the Tweed, where Thomson, the author of The Seasons, was born. The Tweed, pure parent-stream, Whose pastoral banks first heard my Doric reed. Autumn (888-9).…

Vernon B. Stouffer Biography

Vernon B. Stouffer food industry executiveBorn: 1901Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio Having ventured east to study business at Wharton, he returned home to Cleveland to open his first restaurant.…

Writers

  Achebe, Rousseau, Yourcenar, and more A-B | C | D-F | G-H | I-L | M-N | O-P | R-S | T-Z   Achebe, Chinua Adams, Henry Addison, Joseph Aesop Agee, James Agnon, S. Y. Alcott,…

Ronald Perelman Biography

Ronald Perelmanturnaround specialistBorn: 1935Birthplace: Greensboro, N.C. Educated in boardroom behavior at his father's knee, Perelman began attending board meetings for Belmont Industries…

Jon RUNYAN, Congress, NJ (1973)

RUNYAN Jon , a Representative from New Jersey; born in Flint, Genessee County, Mich., November 27, 1973; graduated from Carman-Ainsworth High School, Flint, Mich.; attended University of Michigan…

J. Russell Smith Biography

J. Russell Smith (Joseph Russell Smith) economist, scholar, geographerBorn: 1874Birthplace: near Lincoln, Va. Having studied and taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and its…

David SCOTT, Congress, GA (1946)

SCOTT David , a Representative from Georgia; born in Aynor, Horry County, S.C., June 27, 1945; graduated from Campbell High School, Daytona Beach, Fla., 1963; B.A., Florida Agricultural and…