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(Encyclopedia) wild leek: see onion.

(Encyclopedia) wild carrot: see Queen Anne's lace. ...

(Encyclopedia) geranium, common name for some members of the Geraniaceae, a family of herbs and small shrubs of temperate and subtropical regions. Their long, beak-shaped fruits give them the popular names crane's-b...

(Encyclopedia) crane's-bill: see geranium.

(Encyclopedia) Ford, Bill: see under Ford, Henry. ...

(Encyclopedia) Williams, Bill: see Williams, William Sherley. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mauldin, Bill (William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b. Mountain Park, N.Mex. During World War II, in which he served as an infantryman-cartoonist in Italy, France, and Germany, Ma...

(Encyclopedia) wild canary: see finch; warbler. ...

(Encyclopedia) Rodgers, Bill, 1947–, American distance runner, b. Hartford, Conn. He helped to popularize distance running in the U.S. He won the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon four times each betw...

(Encyclopedia) Gates, Bill (William Henry Gates 3d), 1955–, American business executive, b. Seattle, Wash. At the age of 19, Gates founded (1975) the Microsoft Corp....