keyboardistDied: September 15, 2008Best Known as: keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd Deathplace: London, England Richard Wright was one of the founding…
(Encyclopedia) Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster Fuller), 1895–1983, American architect and engineer, b. Milton, Mass. Fuller devoted his life to the invention of revolutionary…
Most animals never even see their parents! Many never meet their fathers and some never meet their mothers, either. Some insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles hatch from fertilized eggs and face…
economistBorn: 4/8/1904Birthplace: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Nobel Prize-winning economist whose works include Value and Capital (1939), A Theory of Economic History (1969) and…
theatrical impresarioBorn: 5/3/1844Birthplace: London Having begun his career in his father's business making musical instruments, he is best known for having produced the first Gilbert and…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Vermont
Member Name Birth-Death AIKEN, George David 1892-1984 ALLEN, Heman (of Colchester) 1779-1852 ALLEN, Heman (of Milton…
WHAT DO ARTISTS DRAW WITH? WHAT DO THE NUMBERS AND LETTERS ON PENCILS MEAN? IS DRAWING ALWAYS BLACK AND WHITE?SHADINGFIND OUT MOREDrawing uses lines, dots, or similar marks to create pictures and…
(Encyclopedia) Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744–1817, Anglo-Irish educational theorist, b. Bath, England, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford; father of Maria Edgeworth. A member of the…
(Encyclopedia) Drew, Charles Richard, 1904–50, African-American physician, b. Washington, D.C. A surgeon and a professor at Howard Univ. (1935–36; 1942–50), he developed a means of preserving blood…
(Encyclopedia) Dugdale, Richard LouisDugdale, Richard Louisdŭgˈdāl [key], 1841–83, American social investigator, b. Paris. While inspecting (1874) county jails for the New York Prison Association, he…
