(Encyclopedia) Gainsborough, ThomasGainsborough, Thomasgānzˈbûrˌō [key], 1727–88, English portrait and landscape painter, b. Sudbury. In 1740 he went to London and became the assistant and pupil of…
(Encyclopedia) Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud Montgomery), 1874–1942, Canadian novelist, b. Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), met with immediate success and has been…
(Encyclopedia) Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857–1950, American feminist, b. East Orange, N.J., grad. Boston Univ., 1881; daughter of Henry Brown Blackwell and Lucy Stone. She was an editor (1881–1917) of…
O’LOUGHLIN, Kathryn Ellen, (after election was married to Daniel M. McCarthy and thereupon served under the name of Kathryn O’Loughlin McCarthy), a Representative from Kansas; born near Hays,…
OâLOUGHLIN, Kathryn Ellen, (after election was married to Daniel M. McCarthy and thereupon served under the name of Kathryn OâLoughlin McCarthy), a Representative from Kansas; born near…
After There was 'Lucy'New 2.5 million-year-old ancestor found in Ethiopia by Otto Johnson 2.5 million-year-old fossils Earlier this year, a team of Ethiopian, American, and Japanese researchers…
(Encyclopedia) Harlan, John Marshall, 1833–1911, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877–1911), b. Boyle co., Ky., grad. Centre College, 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853,…
actressBorn: 8/6/1911Birthplace: Jamestown, New York Emmy Award-winning television and film actress best remembered for her starring role in television's I Love Lucy (1951–57). A talented…
You can't get much older than 6 million years. That is when the first human beings, known as Hominidae, evolved. They were not like apes; they had bigger brains, different teeth, and walked…
(Encyclopedia) Scott, Thomas Alexander, 1823–81, American railroad president, b. Fort Loudon, Pa. He was employed by the Pennsylvania RR as a station agent in 1850 and rose to become general…
