(Encyclopedia) diner, restaurant resembling the railroad dining car. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down…
(Encyclopedia) Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington…
MUHLENBERG, Henry Augustus Philip, (father of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg and nephew of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and of Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg), a Representative from…
McCULLOCH, Philip Doddridge, Jr., a Representative from Arkansas; born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., June 23, 1851; moved with his parents to Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn.;…
THOMPSON, Philip Burton, Jr., a Representative from Kentucky; born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., October 15, 1845; attended the common schools and the University of Kentucky at Lexington…
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(Encyclopedia) Seaga, Edward Philip GeorgeSeaga, Edward Philip Georgesēˈägä [key], 1930–2019, prime minister of Jamaica (1980–89). Born in Boston, Mass., to Jamaican parents of Lebanese, European,…
(Encyclopedia) Philip, d. a.d. 34, tetrarch of Ituraea, son of Herod the Great. He was perhaps the ablest of the Herod dynasty. He is mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke.
HILL, John Boynton Philip Clayton, a Representative from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., May 2, 1879; attended the common schools; was graduated from Johns Hopkins…
MORRISON, Sidney Wallace, Representative from Washington; born in Yakima, Yakima County, Wash., May 13, 1933; attended Toppenish public schools, Toppenish, Wash.; attended Yakima Valley…
