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(Encyclopedia) Cromarty, county, Scotland: see Ross and Cromarty. ...

(Encyclopedia) Stockton, 1st earl of: see Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold. ...

(Encyclopedia) Manson, Patrick, 1844–1922, English parasitologist. After receiving his medical degree (1866) from the university at Aberdeen, Scotland, Manson left for China where he was to spend 24 years, studyin...

(Encyclopedia) San Francisco Ballet, America's first classical ballet company, est. 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet by the dancer Adolph Bolm. Based at the War ...

(Encyclopedia) Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton, 1894–1986, British statesman. A descendant of the founder of the publishing house of Macmillan and Company, he was educated at Eton and at Oxford a...

(Encyclopedia) Watie, Stand wätˈē [key], 1806–71, Native American leader and Confederate general, b. near Rome, Ga., as Degataga Oowatie. Of mixed white and Cherokee descent, he favored moving in the face of wh...

(Encyclopedia) Kroto, Harry (Sir Harold Walter Kroto), 1939–2016, British chemist, b. Harold Walter Krotoschiner, Ph.D. Univ. of Sheffield, 1964. Kroto was the son of German parents who fled Nazi rule to England. ...

(Encyclopedia) Flatman, Thomas, 1637–88, English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs (1674). One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of...

(Encyclopedia) Whales, Bay of: see Ross Sea; Antarctica. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dingwall dĭngˈwôl, –wəl [key], town, Highland, N Scotland, at the head of Cromarty Firth. It is ...