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Dickey, Eric Jerome

(Encyclopedia) Dickey, Eric Jerome, 1961- 2021, African-American author, b. Memphis, TN, Memphis State Univ. (BS, 1983). Dickey studied engineering and…

Lalemant, Gabriel

(Encyclopedia) Lalemant, Gabriel (Saint Gabriel Lalemant)Lalemant, Gabrielgäbrēĕlˈ [key]Lalemant, Gabriel lälmäNˈ [key], 1610–49, French Jesuit missionary in North America, nephew of Charles Lalemant…

Cima, Giovanni Battista

(Encyclopedia) Cima, Giovanni BattistaCima, Giovanni Battistajōvänˈnē bät-tēˈstä chēˈmä [key], c.1459–c.1517, Venetian painter, called Cima da Conegliano. Influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello…

Torrigiano, Pietro

(Encyclopedia) Torrigiano, PietroTorrigiano, Pietropyĕˈtrō tōr-rējäˈnō [key], 1472–1528, Florentine Renaissance sculptor. Upon leaving Florence in 1492, he worked in Rome and small Italian cities…

Kendall, Henry Way

(Encyclopedia) Kendall, Henry Way, 1926–99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard…

Orosius, Paulus

(Encyclopedia) Orosius, PaulusOrosius, Paulusōrōˈshēəs [key], c.385–420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and…

Garofalo, Il

(Encyclopedia) Garofalo, IlGarofalo, Ilēl gärôˈfälō [key], 1481–1559, Italian painter of the Ferrarese school, whose real name was Benvenuto Tisi or Tisio. Influenced by Raphael, he painted in a…

West, Jerry

(Encyclopedia) West, Jerry (Jerome Alan West), 1938–, American basketball player, b. Cheylan, W.Va. One of the game's great shooting guards, he led West Virginia Univ. to the 1959 National Collegiate…

Lucien Jerome FENTON, Congress, OH (1844-1922)

FENTON Lucien Jerome , a Representative from Ohio; born in Winchester, Ohio, May 7, 1844; attended the public schools, Lebanon Normal School, and Ohio University at Athens; enlisted as a private…

Jerome Francis DONOVAN, Congress, NY (1872-1949)

DONOVAN Jerome Francis , a Representative from New York; born in New Haven Conn., February 1, 1872; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1894…