(Detroit MC, Marshall Mathers)Birthplace: Kansas City Grammy Award-winning controversial hard-core rap artist who burst on the music scene with the release of 1999's The Slim Shady LP, a double…
DENT, George, a Representative from Maryland; born on his fatherâs estate, âWindsor Castle,â on the Mattawoman, Charles County, Md., in 1756; completed preparatory studies; during the…
CLEVER, Charles P., a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico; born in Cologne, Prussia, February 23, 1830; attended the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; immigrated to the…
GALLAGHER, Cornelius Edward, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., March 2, 1921; attended the local schools of Bayonne; was graduated from John Marshall…
Senate Years of Service: 1941-1943Party: DemocratDOXEY, Wall, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., August 8, 1892; attended the…
CALDERHEAD, William Alexander, a Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, September 26, 1844; received private schooling and also attended the common…
HELVERING, Guy Tresillian, a Representative from Kansas; born in Felicity, Clermont County, Ohio, January 10, 1878; moved to Kansas in 1887 with his parents, who settled in Beattie, Marshall…
(Encyclopedia) Collins, Wilkie (William Wilkie Collins), 1824–89, English novelist. Although trained as a lawyer, he spent most of his life writing. He produced some 30 novels, the best known of…
(Encyclopedia) Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Ill. Founded in 1893 through the gifts of Marshall Field and others, it was first known as the Columbian Museum of Chicago and in 1905 was…
(Encyclopedia) Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922–2011, American biochemist, b. Raipur (now in Pakistan), Ph.D. Univ. of Liverpool, 1948. He became a U.S. citizen in 1966, and was a professor at the…
