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Bynner, Witter

(Encyclopedia) Bynner, WitterBynner, Witterbĭnˈər [key], 1881–1968, American poet, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1902. As a poet Bynner had a remarkable facility for catching the cadences of…

Berkeley

(Encyclopedia) Berkeley Berkeley bûrˈklē [key], city (2020 pop. 124,321), Alameda co., W Calif., on the E shore of…

United Empire Loyalists

(Encyclopedia) United Empire Loyalists, in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution, migrated from the Thirteen Colonies to Canada.…

Rosset, Barney Lee, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Rosset, Barney Lee, Jr., 1922–2012, American publisher, b. Chicago. As head (1951–85) of Grove Press, he published literary works previously deemed too obscene or unconventional for…

Perlmutter, Saul

(Encyclopedia) Perlmutter, Saul, 1959–, American astrophysicist, b., Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1986. He is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and…

James Laughlin

(James Laughlin IV)editor, publisher, poetBorn: 10/30/1914Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Laughlin founded the publishing company New Directions in 1936. Preferring the work of experimental…

Jim GERLACH, Congress, PA (1955)

GERLACH, Jim, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Ellwood City, Lawrence County, Pa., on February 25, 1955; B.A., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1977; J.D., Dickinson College, Carlisle,…

Doug LAMBORN, Congress, CO (1954)

LAMBORN, Doug, a Representative from Colorado; born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kans., May 24, 1954; B.S., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans., 1978; J.D., University of Kansas, 1985…

Charles MARTIN, Congress, IL (1856-1917)

MARTIN, Charles, a Representative from Illinois; born near Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., May 20, 1856; moved with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in 1860; attended the public schools;…

Yuan T. Lee

chemistBorn: 11/29/1936Birthplace: Hsinchu, Taiwan Yuan T. Lee was one of three who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Although Lee's childhood in Taiwan was interrupted by World War II,…