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Toynbee Hall

(Encyclopedia) Toynbee Hall: see Barnett, Samuel Augustus.

Hall, Samuel Read

(Encyclopedia) Hall, Samuel Read, 1795–1877, American educator and clergyman, b. Croydon, N.H. After teaching in Rumford, Maine, and Fitchburg, Mass., he founded (1823) at Concord, Vt., a training…

Hall, John Lewis

(Encyclopedia) Hall, John Lewis, 1934–, American physicist, b. Denver, Colo., Ph.D. Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1961. He has been a researcher at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder,…

Culp, Curley

(Encyclopedia) Culp, Curley, 1946-2021, American football Hall-of-Famer, b. Yuma, Az., Arizona State Univ. (B.Bus., 1970), Univ. of Houston (M.A., 1990…

Dibdin, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814, English songwriter and theatrical entrepreneur. His best-known songs are from his ballad operas, such as The Bells of Aberdovey from Liberty Hall (1785) and…

Who, The

(Encyclopedia) Who, The, English rock music group formed in 1964. The members were Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend, 1945–, Chiswick, London, U.K…

The Shark Hall of Fame

The biggest, smallest, scariest, coolest . . . by Holly Hartman Scariest Great White (Carcharodon carcharias)Made famous by the movie Jaws, the great white shark has become a…

Prince Hall Biography

Prince Hall clergyman, abolitionistBorn: 1735Birthplace: Barbados Hall established the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston in 1775. It was the first lodge…

Theodore Hall Biography

Theodore HallAge: 74 physicist and alleged atomic spy. After graduating from Harvard at age 18, Hall was hired as a physicist on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M., becoming the…