Senate Years of Service: 1913-1940Party: DemocratPITTMAN, Key, a Senator from Nevada; born in Vicksburg, Warren County, Miss., September 12, 1872; educated by private tutors and at the…
POINSETT, Joel Roberts, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 2, 1779; spent his early childhood in England; returned to America in 1788; attended private…
(Encyclopedia) ammonium sulfate, chemical compound, (NH4)2SO4, a colorless-to-gray, rhombohedral crystalline substance that occurs in nature as the mineral mascagnite. It is soluble in water and…
(Encyclopedia) fulminatefulminatefŭlˈmĭnāt [key], any salt of fulminic acid, HONC, a highly unstable compound known only in solution. The term is most commonly applied to the explosive mercury (II)…
(Encyclopedia) Foulis, AndrewFoulis, Andrewfoulz [key], 1712–75, and Robert Foulis, 1707–76, Scottish printers, brothers. They worked in partnership as printers to the Univ. of Glasgow. Their…
(Encyclopedia) Albright, Ivan Le LorraineAlbright, Ivan Le Lorraineôlˈbrīt [key], 1897–1983, American painter, b. North Harvey, Ill. Allied with the Magic Realist group, Albright developed a style…
(Encyclopedia) Ferris, Woodbridge Nathan, 1853–1928, American educator and public official, b. Tioga co., N.Y. After study (1873–74) at the Univ. of Michigan, he taught in country schools, and became…
(Encyclopedia) patinapatinapătˈənə [key], coating of carbonate of copper on articles of copper or bronze, formed after long exposure to a moist atmosphere or burial in the earth. Although commonly…
(Encyclopedia) Valle, Pietro dellaValle, Pietro dellapyĕˈtrō dĕlˈlä välˈlā [key], 1586–1652, Italian traveler in Asia. He sailed (1614) from Venice; spent a year in Constantinople, where he studied…
(Encyclopedia) cerussitecerussitesērˈəsīt [key], colorless to white or gray mineral, sometimes yellowish or greenish, transparent to opaque, very brittle, crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and…
