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(Encyclopedia) Peter III (Peter the Great), 1239?–1285, king of Aragón and count of Barcelona (1276–85) and king of Sicily (1282–85); son and successor of James I. In 1280 he established Aragonese influence o...
(Encyclopedia) Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, 1851–1940, English physicist, grad. University College, London (B.S., 1875; D.Sc., 1877). He made valuable contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy and condu...
(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Randy (Randall David Johnson), 1963–, American baseball player, b. Walnut Creek, Calif. After pitching for the Univ. of Southern California, Johnson signed with the Montreal Expos in 1985, ...
(Encyclopedia) Weissman, Drew
1959–, b. Lexington, Mass., American Immunologist, studied at Brandeis
University (B.A., M.A., 1981) and Boston University (M.D, Ph.D.,...
(Encyclopedia) Collins, Patricia
Hill, 1948–, American sociologist and social
theorist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1984. A noted
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(Encyclopedia) Moungi Bawendi,
1961–, b. Paris, France, American-Tunisian-French chemist, studied at
Harvard University (B.A., 1982; M.A.1983) and the University of ...
(Encyclopedia) Cambridge, city and district,
Cambridgeshire, E central England, on the River Cam. The city, set in flat
country, is most famous as the site of the Univ...
(Encyclopedia) Salt River valley, irrigated region around the lower course of the Salt River, which rises in mountain streams near the Mogollon Rim of the Mogollon Plateau and flows southwest to join the Gila River ...
(Encyclopedia) Thwing, Charles Franklin twĭng [key], 1853–1937, American educator and Congregational clergyman, b. New Sharon, Maine, grad. Harvard, 1876, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1879. Until 1890 he ser...
(Encyclopedia) Calypso, in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn XIV (or S14), Calypso is a small, irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 21 mi (34...