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(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Thomas, 1605–35, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1632, he went to London where he became a disciple of Ben Jonson. His best-known poems are “A Gratulatory ...
(Encyclopedia) Steitz, Thomas Arthur, 1940–2018, American biophysicist and biochemist, b. Milwaukee, Ph.D. Harvard, 1966. Steitz was a professor at Yale from 1970 and a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Inst...
(Encyclopedia) Cicero, town (2020 pop. 85,268), Cook
co., NE Ill., an industrial and residential suburb adjoining Chicago; inc.
1867. A largely white enclave, it was o...
(Encyclopedia) Elk Grove Village, village (2020 pop.
32,812), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956.
With a population of c.100 at the tim...
(Encyclopedia) Gisborne
gĭzˈbôrn
[key], city, East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a
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(Encyclopedia) Glencoe
glĕnˈkō
[key], residential village (2020 pop. 8,849), Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake
M...
(Encyclopedia) Sloane, T(homas) O'Conor, 1851–1940, American scientist, lecturer, writer, and periodical editor, Ph.D. Columbia, 1876. Sloane was a member of the editorial staff of the Scientific American, where h...
(Encyclopedia) Murray or Moray, Thomas Randolph, 1st earl of both: mûrˈē [key], d. 1332, Scottish nobleman; nephew of Robert I. He joined Robert's revolt against Edward I of England in 1306 but was captured at th...
(Encyclopedia) Palatine pălˈətīn [key], village (1990 pop. 39,253), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1869. Primarily residential, the growing village manufactures a variety of products, such as machine tools and industri...
(Encyclopedia) Brookfield.
1 Village (2020 pop. 19,476), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential
suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. The noted Chicago Zoological Park (Brookfield
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