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(Encyclopedia)Camrose, city, central Alta., Canada. It is in a mixed farming area and is a railroad center. Camrose Lutheran College is there. ...Greensboro
(Encyclopedia)Greensboro. <1> City (2020 pop. 3,648), seat of Greene co., Ga.; inc. 1803 (town); 1855 (city). Founded in 1780, the town lies approx. halfway ...McGuffey, William Holmes
(Encyclopedia)McGuffey, William Holmes məgŭfˈē [key], 1800–1873, American educator, b. near Claysville, Pa. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1826, having meanwhile taught in rural sch...Sorbonne
(Encyclopedia)Sorbonne sôrbônˈ [key], first endowed college in the Univ. of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon (1201–74), chaplain of Louis IX, and opened in 1253 for the purpose of providing quarters for theo...Barton, Derek H. R.
(Encyclopedia)Barton, Derek H. R., 1918–98, British chemist, b. Gravesend, England, grad. Imperial College of Science and Technology (B.S. 1940, Ph.D. 1942, D.Sc. 1949). He was on the faculty of Imperial College ...Douglas, Sir Howard
(Encyclopedia)Douglas, Sir Howard, 1776–1861, British general and colonial administrator. He was a distinguished teacher of military strategy and an important authority on military and naval engineering. After a ...Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de
(Encyclopedia)Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de pyĕr fräNswäˈ zävyāˈ də shärləvwäˈ [key], 1682–1761, French Jesuit traveler and historian. He taught at the Jesuit college in Quebec and at the Col...Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
(Encyclopedia)Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas, 1897–1967, English physicist, educated at the Univ. of Manchester and St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a fellow of St. John's College (1928–46) and professor of n...Gregory, Wilton Daniel
(Encyclopedia)Gregory, Wilton Daniel, 1947–, American Roman Catholic cardinal, b. Chicago. Ordained in 1973, he was educated at Niles College (now St. Joseph's College Seminary) of Loyola Univ., Chicago, St. Mary...Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell
(Encyclopedia)Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell, 1821–91, American pioneer, clergyman, and abolitionist, b. New Haven, Vt. As pastor (1851–52) of the First Congregational Church in Washington, D.C., he created a sensat...Browse by Subject
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