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Notable Filmmakers and Directors

Spike Lee See also Actors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater Personalities Women Stage and Screen…

Coffin, James Henry

(Encyclopedia) Coffin, James Henry, 1806–73, American mathematician and meteorologist, was professor of mathematics and physics, Lafayette College, 1846–73. In an observatory which he built on Mt.…

Phillips Exeter Academy

(Encyclopedia) Phillips Exeter AcademyPhillips Exeter Academyĕkˈsətər [key], at Exeter, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1781, opened 1783 by John Phillips. It has been an influential preparatory…

Canonicus

(Encyclopedia) CanonicusCanonicuskənŏnˈĭkəs [key], c.1565–1647, Native North American chief, who ruled the Narragansett when the Pilgrims landed in New England. He granted (1636) Rhode Island to…

Coddington, William

(Encyclopedia) Coddington, William, 1601–78, one of the founders of Rhode Island, probably b. Boston, England. He came to America in 1630 as an officer of the Massachusetts Bay Company and was its…

Thorne, Kip Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Thorne, Kip Stephen, 1940–, American theoretical physicist, b. Logan, Utah. Ph.D. Princeton, 1965. Thorne has been a professor (emeritus from 2009) at the California Institute of…

Nobel Prizes: 2002

/* /*]]>*/ 2002 Nobel Prize Winners   Jimmy Carter, former president of the United StatesPeace: Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president and , were cited "for their work for a better organized…

2007 People in the News

See also 2006 People in the News 2005 People in the News 2004 People in the News 2003 People in the News 2002 People in the News 2001 People in the News 2000 People in the News 1999 People…

Pat Buchanan

Pat BuchananRabble rouser for the Reform party by Beth Rowen Buchanan speaks with steel workers in Weirton, West Virginia.This article was posted on September 29, 1999.Born to fight Since he…

Barker, Eugene Campbell

(Encyclopedia) Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874–1956, American historian, b. Walker co., Tex. His distinguished teaching career, begun in 1899, was almost entirely at the Univ. of Texas. An outstanding…