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Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford was the highest-paid and the most prominent American supermodel of the 1990s. As an actress she appeared in the movie Fair Game, and she is the former host of MTV's House of Style.…

Joan Crawford

Name at birth: Lucille Fay Le SueurJoan Crawford was a bubbly ingenue of silent films during the "flapper era" of the late 1920s. As her bubbly years passed she reinvented herself as a more glamorous…

Galion

(Encyclopedia) Galion Galion gălˈyən [key], city (2020 pop. 10,453), Crawford co., N central Ohio; inc. as a…

Meadville

(Encyclopedia) Meadville, city (1990 pop. 14,318), seat of Crawford co., NW Pa.; settled 1788, inc. 1866. It is an industrial city in a rich agricultural region. There is food processing and…

Bucyrus

(Encyclopedia) Bucyrus Bucyrus by&oomacr;sīˈrəs [key], city (2020 pop. 11,776), seat of Crawford co., N central…

New Kensington

(Encyclopedia) New Kensington, city (1990 pop. 15,894), Westmoreland co., SW Pa., on the Allegheny River, in a coal-mining area; laid out 1891 on the site of Fort Crawford (1778), inc. as a city 1933…

Work, Hubert

(Encyclopedia) Work, Hubert, 1860–1942, American cabinet officer, b. Marion Center, Pa. A practicing physician in Colorado, he became prominent in state and then in national Republican politics. He…

Ruggles, Carl

(Encyclopedia) Ruggles, Carl, 1876–1971, American composer, b. Marion, Mass. Ruggles studied music at Harvard and was a friend of Charles Ives. His works are highly original, characterized by complex…

Mills, Clark

(Encyclopedia) Mills, Clark, 1810–83, American sculptor, b. Onondaga co., N.Y. Self-taught in art, he designed and in 1852 cast in an experimental foundry the statue of General Jackson for Lafayette…