HONEYMAN, Nan Wood, a Representative from Oregon; born in West Point, Orange County, N.Y., July 15, 1881; moved with her parents to Portland, Oreg., in 1884; attended private schools, was…
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(Encyclopedia) de la Roche, Mazode la Roche, Mazomāˈzō də lä rôsh [key], 1885–1961, Canadian novelist, b. Toronto. Her popular novel, Jalna (1927), was followed by a series depicting the history,…
The first world softball championship was a women's tournament which was in held Melbourne, Australia, in 1965. Joan Joyce played basketball, volleyball, and softball as a teenager in Waterbury,…
Birds Birds As Pets: What You Should Know Their bright colors, beautiful songs, and cheerful personalities have made birds popular pets for hundreds of years. The Humane Society of the United…
(Encyclopedia) weaverbird, name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches (hence the alternate name weaver finch). It includes a number of so-called…
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Adaptive radiation in Hawaiian honey-creepers
adaptive radiation, in biology, the evolution of an ancestral species, which was adapted to a particular way of life, into many…
(Encyclopedia) Browne, Sir Thomas, 1605–82, English author and physician, b. London, educated at Oxford and abroad, knighted (1671) by Charles II. His Religio Medici, in which Browne attempted to…
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(Encyclopedia) Close, Chuck (Charles Thomas Close), 1940–2021, American painter, b. Monroe, Wash., Univ. of Washington (B.A., 1962), Yale Univ. (B.F.A…
