Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign GovernmentsDate of Information: 10/31/2022[source]
Pres. Wavel Ramkalawan Vice Pres. Ahmed AFIF Min. for Defense, Legal Affairs, Information…
Senate Years of Service: 1859-1861Party: DemocratLANE, Joseph, (father of La Fayette Lane and grandfather of Harry Lane), a Delegate and a Senator from Oregon; born in Buncombe County, N.C.,…
Senate Years of Service: 1938-1939Party: RepublicanPYLE, Gladys, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., October 4, 1890; attended the public schools; graduated from…
RANKIN, Jeannette, a Representative from Montana; born near Missoula, Missoula County, Mont., June 11, 1880; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of Montana at…
(Encyclopedia) Cram, Donald James, 1919–2001, American chemist, b. Chester, Vt., Ph.D. Harvard, 1947. A professor at the Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Cram expanded on the work of Charles J.…
(Encyclopedia) Dacko, DavidDacko, Daviddävēdˈ däkōˈ [key], 1930–2003, president of the Central African Republic (1960–66, 1979–81). A leader in the independence movement in French Equatorial Africa,…
(Encyclopedia) essence, in philosophy, the nature of a thing. Aristotle maintained that there is a distinction between the form of a thing—its intelligible, verbally formulable character—and the…
(Encyclopedia) Hurok, SolHurok, Solhy&oobreve;rˈŏk, y&oobreve;rˈ– [key], 1888–1974, American impresario, b. Russia. Emigrating to the United States in 1906, Hurok was a peddler, streetcar…
