The 1946 Academy Awards were presented March 13, 1947 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles.Best Motion PictureThe Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn; RKO Radio)Henry V (J. Arthur Rank-…
by Robert Burns Election BalladThe EpitaphElegy On Captain Matthew Henderson A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God. Should the poor be…
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(Welsh gwn, a gun.) CANNONS AND RIFLES. Armstrong gun. A wrought-iron cannon, usually breech-loading, having an iron-hooped steel inner tube. Designed by Sir William Armstrong in 1854,…
Frederick Banting, 1891–1941, Charles Best, 1899–1978, James Collip, 1892–1965, Purified Insulin. Canadian scientists Banting, Best, and Collip determined that insulin injections would help…
(Encyclopedia) OjibwaOjibwaōjĭbˈwāˌ, –wə [key] or ChippewaChippewachĭpˈəwäˌ, –wə [key], group of Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan…
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Rhododendron, Rhododendron maximum, a member of the heath family
heath, in botany, common name for some members of the Ericaceae, a family of chiefly evergreen shrubs with…
