(Encyclopedia) Stone Mountain Memorial, memorial to the Confederacy, consisting of the equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved on the northern face of Stone…
Born: 1910Birthplace: London, England Transistor—Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor. The transistor replaced the vacuum tube…
Born: May 15, 1969Football RB passed Walter Payton in 2002 to become the NFL’s all-time leading rusher; also holds all-time record for rushing TDs (155); 4-time NFL rushing leader (1991- 93,95); 11…
Born: 1908Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin Transistor—Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor. The transistor replaced the vacuum…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Nevada
Member Name Birth-Death ARENTZ, Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) 1879-1934 ASHLEY, Delos Rodeyn 1828-1873 BARING, Walter Stephan, Jr…
(Encyclopedia) Holland House, residence of the Holland family in Kensington, London, made famous in the first 40 years of the 19th cent. by the hospitality of Henry Fox, 3d Baron Holland, and his…
(Encyclopedia) prefabrication, in architectural construction, a technique whereby large units of a building are produced in factories to be assembled, ready-made, on the building site. The technique…
(Encyclopedia) Born, Max, 1882–1970, British physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Göttingen, 1907. He was head of the physics department at the Univ. of Göttingen from 1921 to 1933. When Nazi…
(Encyclopedia) Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–92, English navigator. He commanded a ship in the flotilla under Sir Richard Grenville sent (1585) by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first colony in…
