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Seventh-Day Baptists

(Encyclopedia) Seventh-Day Baptists, Protestant church holding the same doctrines as other Calvinistic Baptists but observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. In the Reformation in England…

Basingstoke

(Encyclopedia) Basingstoke Basingstoke bāˈzĭngstōk [key], city, Hampshire, S central England, on the North Downs.…

Newberry, Walter Loomis

(Encyclopedia) Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804–68, American merchant and banker, b. East Windsor (in the section now South Windsor), Conn. In 1822 he entered the shipping business with his brother…

Ostrom, Elinor Awan

(Encyclopedia) Ostrom, Elinor Awan, 1933–2012, American political economist, b. Los Angeles, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1965. She was on the faculty of the Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington…

Capecchi, Mario Renato

(Encyclopedia) Capecchi, Mario Renato, 1937–, American geneticist, b. Verona, Italy, Ph.D. Harvard, 1967. On the faculty at Harvard from 1967 to 1973, Capecchi became a professor at the Univ. of Utah…

Whalley, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Whalley, EdwardWhalley, Edwardhwāˈlē, hwôˈ– [key], d. 1675?, English regicide. During the English civil war he served under his cousin Oliver Cromwell in the parliamentary army. He was…

Charles Oscar ANDREWS, Congress, FL (1877-1946)

Senate Years of Service: 1936-1946 Party: Democrat ANDREWS, Charles Oscar, a Senator from Florida; born in Ponce de Leon, Holmes County, Fla., March 7, 1877; attended the public schools and the…

Atlee POMERENE, Congress, OH (1863-1937)

Senate Years of Service: 1911-1923Party: DemocratPOMERENE, Atlee, a Senator from Ohio; born in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, December 6, 1863; attended the common schools and Vermillion…

Rockefeller Foundation

(Encyclopedia) Rockefeller Foundation, philanthropic institution established (1913) by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., to promote “the well-being of mankind throughout the world.” During its first 14 years…

Bond, J. Max, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Bond, J. Max, Jr., 1935-2009, African-American architect, b. Lexington, Ky., Harvard Univ. (BA, 1955; MA, 1958). Bond’s father, J. Max,…