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Browne, Thomas Alexander
(Encyclopedia)Browne, Thomas Alexander, pseud. Rolf Boldrewood rōf bôlˈdərwo͝odˌ, rôlf [key], 1826–1915, Australian author. A squatter, a magistrate, and a commissioner in the gold fields, he wrote many bo...Thomas Edison National Historical Park
(Encyclopedia)Thomas Edison National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Thomas Stone National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Thomas Stone National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Sunbury-on-Thames
(Encyclopedia)Sunbury-on-Thames, town (1991 pop. 26,240), Surrey, SE England, on the Thames. Sunbury Park with its walled garden is there. Nearby Shepperton has motion-picture studios and a village center from the ...Mellon, Andrew William
(Encyclopedia)Mellon, Andrew William, 1855–1937, American financier, industrialist, and public official, b. Pittsburgh. He studied at the Western Univ. of Pennsylvania (now the Univ. of Pittsburgh), but he left c...Mill Springs
(Encyclopedia)Mill Springs, village, on the Cumberland River, S of Frankfort, SE Ky.; site of the opening battle of the Kentucky-Tennessee campaign of the Civil War and the first important Union victory in the West...Manning, William Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Manning, William Thomas, 1866–1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1...Ingersoll
(Encyclopedia)Ingersoll, town, S Ont., Canada, on the Thames River, E of London. It has a large dairy-processing industry. Named for Thomas Ingersoll, father of the C...David, John Baptist Mary
(Encyclopedia)David, John Baptist Mary, 1761–1841, French missionary in the United States, b. Brittany. He was educated at Nantes, joined the Sulpicians, and because of the French Revolution emigrated to the Unit...Henry of Huntingdon
(Encyclopedia)Henry of Huntingdon, d. 1155, English chronicler, archdeacon of Huntingdon. His Historia Anglorum is important not because it gives many new facts but because it was much used by later writers. It is ...Browse by Subject
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