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Milward Lee SIMPSON, Congress, WY (1897-1993)

Senate Years of Service: 1962-1967Party: RepublicanSIMPSON, Milward Lee, (father of Alan Kooi Simpson), a Senator from Wyoming; born in Jackson, Teton County, Wyo., November 12, 1897; attended…

Manfred

(Encyclopedia) ManfredManfredmănˈfrəd, Ger. mänˈfrāt [key], c.1232–1266, king of Sicily (1258–66), the last Hohenstaufen on that throne. An illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II,…

Halprin, Lawrence

(Encyclopedia) Halprin, Lawrence, 1916-2009, American landscape architect and urban designer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Cornell Univ (B.S., 1939), Univ. of…

Norco

(Encyclopedia) Norco, city (1990 pop. 23,302), Riverside co., SE Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1964. Diversified agriculture is being displaced by rapid urban development. Lubricating oils…

Colton

(Encyclopedia) Colton, city (2020 pop. 53,909), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a suburb of San Bernardino, inc. 1887. Originally a rich citrus and farm…

Warley

(Encyclopedia) Warley, urban area (1991 pop. 152,455), Sandwell metropolitan district, central England. Warley is highly industrialized; its manufactures include machinery, fabricated metal products…

enterprise zone

(Encyclopedia) enterprise zone, designated geographical district in which resident businesses are legally entitled to receive special benefits from a government, established in economically depressed…

Teesside

(Encyclopedia) Teesside, former county borough, NE England, at the mouth of the Tees River. Teesside was created in 1968 by the merger of the county borough of Middlesbrough; the municipal boroughs…