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Gresham's law

(Encyclopedia)Gresham's law: see under Gresham, Sir Thomas. ...

Jameson Raid

(Encyclopedia)Jameson Raid: see Jameson, Sir Leander Starr. ...

Elaine

(Encyclopedia)Elaine, in Arthurian legend: see Launcelot, Sir. ...

Rochefort, Victor Henri, marquis de Rochefort-Luçay

(Encyclopedia)Rochefort, Victor Henri, marquis de Rochefort-Luçay vēktôrˈ äNrēˈ rôshfôrˈ märkēˈ də rôshfôrˈ-lüsāˈ [key], 1831–1913, French journalist and politician. The editor of Le Figaro in...

Taussig, Helen Brooke

(Encyclopedia)Taussig, Helen Brooke, 1898–1986, American physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1927. She spent her entire career at Johns Hopkins, where she founded the field of pediatric card...
 

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