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goat

(Encyclopedia) goat, ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheep. True wild goats, all of Old World origin,…

Wells, H. G.

(Encyclopedia) Wells, H. G. (Herbert George Wells), 1866–1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker,…

American Fur Company

(Encyclopedia) American Fur Company, chartered by John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) in 1808 to compete with the great fur-trading companies in Canada—the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company.…

Kahn, Louis Isadore

(Encyclopedia) Kahn, Louis IsadoreKahn, Louis Isadoreĭzˈədôrˌ [key]Kahn, Louis Isadore, kän [key], 1901–74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he…

Verdi, Giuseppe

(Encyclopedia) Verdi, GiuseppeVerdi, Giuseppevârˈdē, Ital. j&oomacr;zĕpˈpā vĕrˈdē [key], 1813–1901, foremost Italian composer of opera, b. Le Roncole. Verdi, the son of an innkeeper, showed a…

J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling The story of Harry Potter's creator   by Ann-Marie Imbornoni     * Visit our Harry Potter Page for more news! *   Joanne Rowling,…

Helena

(Encyclopedia) Helena. 1 City (2020 pop. 20,633), Jefferson and Shelby cos., central Ala.; inc. 1877. White settlers began to occupy the area after…

muckrakers

(Encyclopedia) muckrakers, name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in…