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(Encyclopedia) New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Bedford, William Russell, 5th earl and 1st duke of: see Russell, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Russell, William, 5th earl and 1st duke of Bedford: see Russell, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mars, family of American food manufacturers. Franklin Clarence Mars, 1882–1934, b. Hancock, Minn., was a chocolate manufacturer who produced candy at home before opening a candy factory (1911) in Ta...

(Encyclopedia) Tullahoma tələhōˈmə [key], city (1990 pop. 16,761), Coffee and Franklin counties, central Tenn.; settled c.1850 as a railroad labor camp, inc. 1903. It is an industrial center in a highland timbe...

(Encyclopedia) Russell, English noble family. It first appeared prominently in the reign of Henry VIII when John Russell, 1st earl of Bedford, 1486?–1555, rose to military and diplomatic importance. He was lord hi...

(Encyclopedia) Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806–54, American playwright and novelist, b. New Castle, Del., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1827. He wrote several prizewinning verse plays for the actor Edwin Forrest, nota...

(Encyclopedia) Fairhaven, residential town (2020 pop. 15,924), Bristol co., SE Mass., at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, opposite New Bedford; settled...

(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1810–82, Scottish essayist. He was a physician. His writing was collected in Horae Subsecivae (3 vol., 1858–82), which included his unique picture of a dog, Rab and His Friends (1859)...

(Encyclopedia) Oxford Group: see Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel. ...