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(Encyclopedia) Boldrewood, Rolf: see Browne, Thomas Alexander. ...

(Encyclopedia) Schumann, Clara: see under Schumann, Robert Alexander. ...

(Encyclopedia) Douglas-Home, Sir Alec: Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirsel. ...

(Encyclopedia) kite, in aviation, aircraft restrained by a towline and deriving its lift from the aerodynamic action of the wind flowing across it. Commonly the kite consists of a light framework upon which paper, s...

(Encyclopedia) Beatrix bēˈətrĭks, bē-ăˈtrĭks [key], 1938–, queen of the Netherlands (1980–2013). The oldest daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, she rece...

(Encyclopedia) Home, 14th earl of: see Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirsel. ...

(Encyclopedia) Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey plăsˈē [key], 1725–74, British soldier and statesman. He went to India in 1743 as a clerk for the British East India Company and entered the military service...

(Encyclopedia) McIntire, Samuel măkˈəntīrˌ [key], 1757–1811, American architect and woodcarver, b. Salem, Mass. He developed high skill as a joiner and housewright and in wood sculpture. McIntire's opportunit...

(Encyclopedia) Nathans, Daniel, 1928–99, American microbiologist, b. Wilmington, Del., M.D. Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1954. He became a professor at Johns Hopkins in 1962. Nathans worked with Werner Arber and H...

(Encyclopedia) bookplate, label pasted in a book to indicate ownership, also called ex libris [Lat.,=from the books of]. The bookplate is usually of paper on which heraldic or other designs are engraved or printed. ...