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(Encyclopedia) Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837–63, Union hero in the American Civil War, b. Boston. An ardent white abolitionist, he was colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first body of black troops raised i...

(Encyclopedia) Solow, Robert M., 1924–, American economist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1951). He began teaching economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. So...

(Encyclopedia) Schuller, Robert Harold, 1926–2015, American Protestant minister and television evangelist, b. Alton, Iowa. Schuller gained attention (1955) when he used a drive-in theater to preach to his newly es...

(Encyclopedia) Brooke, Sir Charles Anthony Johnson: see Brooke, Sir James. ...

(Encyclopedia) Owen, Robert Dale, 1801–77, American social reformer, b. Scotland; son of Robert Owen. He studied at his father's New Lanark school and in Switzerland. In 1825 he went to New Harmony, Ind. There he ...

(Encyclopedia) Rubin, Robert Edward ro͞oˈbĭn [key], 1938–, U.S. business executive and government official, b. New York City. A graduate of Harvard, he attended the London School of Economics before receiving h...

(Encyclopedia) Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ...

(Encyclopedia) Lochiel, Sir Ewen Cameron of: see Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewen. ...

(Encyclopedia) Abdubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji Sir: see Balewa, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa. ...

(Encyclopedia) Flinders Petrie, Sir William Matthew: see Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders. ...