(Encyclopedia) Lichnowsky, Karl Max, Fürst vonLichnowsky, Karl Max, Fürst vonkärl mäks fürst fən lĭkhnôfˈskē [key], 1860–1928, German diplomat, ambassador to London (1912–14). In a privately…
Gordon county georgia dp 2 profile of selected social characteristics SubjectNumberPercent SCHOOL ENROLLMENT Population 3 years and over enrolled in school10,354100.0 Nursery…
Gordon county georgia dp 3 profile of selected economic characteristics SubjectNumberPercent EMPLOYMENT STATUS Population 16 years and over33,869100.0 In labor force23,28268.7…
(Encyclopedia) Bell, Sir Charles, 1774–1842, Scottish anatomist and surgeon. He became professor of anatomy and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1824 and was professor of surgery…
(Encyclopedia) Kusch, Polykarp, 1911–93, American physicist, b. Blankenburg, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1936. Kusch was a researcher, professor, and administrator at Columbia from 1937 to 1972…
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1821–94, U.S. public official, b. Pickens District, S.C. As governor of Georgia during the Civil War, Brown quarreled with Jefferson Davis over conscription and…
(Encyclopedia) Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, 1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. President Hoover desired…
(Encyclopedia) Ward, Frederick Townsend, 1831–62, American adventurer, b. Salem, Mass. A soldier of fortune, he served with William Walker in Nicaragua and with the French forces in the Crimean War.…
