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(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Thomas, 1523–90, English diplomat. He was graduated from Oxford (1545) and served as principal of Broadgates Hall (later Pembroke College), Oxford, until forced because of his Protestant s...
(Encyclopedia) isopod īˈsəpŏdˌ [key], common name for crustaceans belonging to the order Isopoda and in the same subclass as lobsters and crayfish. Isopods are characterized by their flattened bodies, lack of a...
(Encyclopedia) Simpson, Sir George, 1792?–1860, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada (1821–56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, where he took charge of the impor...
(Encyclopedia) hydrofoil, flat or curved finlike device, attached by struts to the hull of a watercraft, that lifts the moving watercraft above the water's surface. The term is often extended to include the vessel i...
(Encyclopedia) Spector, Phil
(Harvey Philip), 1939-2021, American record producer, b. Bronx, NY. The
child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Spector’s father passed awa...
(Encyclopedia) Motley, John Lothrop, 1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of articles for the North Amer...
(Encyclopedia) Sahl, Mort,
1927-2021, American comedian and social commentator, b. Montreal, Canada, as
Morton Lyon Sahl, Univ. of Southern Calirofnia (B.A., 1950). ...
(Encyclopedia) Paul, Les, 1915–2009, American
guitarist and inventor, b. Waukesha, Wis., as Lester William Polsfuss (later
Polfuss). He began playing country music a...
(Encyclopedia) bowls, ancient sport (the bocce of Caesar's Rome is still played by Italians), especially popular in Great Britain and Australia, known as lawn bowls or bowling on the green in the United States. It w...
(Encyclopedia) Charles, Ray (Ray Charles Robinson), 1930–2004, African-American musician and composer, b. Albany, Ga. Blinded at age seven, he was raised in Florida and at 16 began singing in a local hillbilly gro...