(Encyclopedia) gram, abbr. g, unit of mass equal to 0.001 kilogram, the basic unit of mass in the metric system. The gram is the unit of mass in the cgs system. It is approximately equal to 0.035…
(Encyclopedia) Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper…
media executiveBorn: 4/4/1948Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York A native of Brooklyn, New York, Parsons graduated from the University of Hawaii, where he played varsity basketball. He earned a law…
newspaper columnistBorn: 1881Birthplace: Freeport, Ill. While still in high school Louella Oettinger became drama editor of the Dixon (Illinois) Morning Star. She married John Parsons in 1910. In…
(Encyclopedia) Gram's stain, laboratory staining technique that distinguishes between two groups of bacteria by the identification of differences in the structure of their cell walls. The Gram stain…
Born: 1913Birthplace: Detroit, Mich. Numerical control of machine tools—Parsons built a milling machine which was fed data to automatically activate servo-mechanisms to perform automatic contour…
Senate Years of Service: 1995-2001Party: RepublicanGRAMS, Rod, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minn., February 4, 1948; attended public…
(Encyclopedia) Parsons, Lucy, 1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was…
