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Rice University

(Encyclopedia) Rice University, at Houston, Tex.; coeducational; chartered 1891 as Rice Institute through a bequest of William Marsh Rice, opened 1912, renamed 1960. It follows the residential…

Linda Johnson Rice

magazine publisher, executiveBorn: 1957? Linda Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism and, in 1987, earned a master's degree in management from…

Susan B. Anthony Dollar

Library of Congress Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is the first woman to appear on U.S. coinage. Anthony worked for nearly 70 years to bring suffrage (the right to vote) to women in the United…

Collins, Susan Margaret

(Encyclopedia) Collins, Susan Margaret, , 1952- , American politician, b. Caribou, Me., St. Lawrence University (BA, 1975). Both of Collins’s parents…

Isaacs, Susan Sutherland

(Encyclopedia) Isaacs, Susan Sutherland, 1885–1948, British educator. After studying at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, she became a lecturer in early childhood education. A disciple of…

Anthony, Susan Brownell

(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…

Warner, Susan Bogert

(Encyclopedia) Warner, Susan Bogert, pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819–85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale…

black-eyed Susan

(Encyclopedia) black-eyed Susan or yellow daisy, North American daisylike wildflower (Rudbeckia hirta) of the family Asteraceae (aster family) with yellow rays and a dark brown center. It is a weedy…

Blow, Susan Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Blow, Susan Elizabeth, 1843–1916, American educator, b. St. Louis. After study in New York City under a disciple of Froebel, she opened in Carondelet (now in St. Louis) the first…

Atchison, David Rice

(Encyclopedia) Atchison, David RiceAtchison, David Riceăchˈĭsən [key], 1807–86, U.S. Senator, b. Frogtown, Ky. A lawyer and politician in Missouri, he served in the Senate from 1843 to 1855. As a…