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(Encyclopedia) Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of kärnärˈvən [key], 1866–1923, English Egyptologist. With Howard Carter he excavated in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, fro...
(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Thurgood, 1908–93, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), b. Baltimore. He received his law degree from Howard Univ. in 1933. In 1936 he joined the legal ...
(Encyclopedia) Murray, Pauli,
1910–1985, American lawyer, priest, and activist, b. Baltimore,
S.J.D. Yale University, 1965, MDiv, General Theological Seminary, 1976....
(Encyclopedia) Scripps, Edward Wyllis, 1854–1926, American newspaper publisher, b. Rushville, Ill. He began (1873) his career on the staff of the Detroit Evening News, a paper founded and edited by his half-brothe...
(Encyclopedia) garden city, an ideal, self-contained community of predetermined area and population surrounded by a greenbelt. As formulated by Sir Ebenezer Howard, the garden city was intended to bring together the...
(Encyclopedia) Ellicott City, city (2020 pop.
75,947), seat of Howard co., in Baltimore and Howard cos., central Md., on
the Patapsco River; settled 1774 as Ellicott M...
(Encyclopedia) Hughes Medical Institute: see Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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(Encyclopedia) Cole, Margaret Isabel (Postgate): see Cole, George Douglas Howard.
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(Encyclopedia) Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914–2005, American psychologist and educator, b. Panama Canal Zone, grad. Howard (B.A., 1935) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). Clark taught psychology at Howard (1937–38) and ...
(Encyclopedia) Joseph (Chief Joseph), c.1840–1904, chief of a group of Nez Percé. On his father's death in 1871, Joseph became leader of one of the groups that refused to leave the land ceded to the United States...