former prime ministerDied: Nov. 20, 2007 (South Africa) Best Known as: former prime minister of Rhodesia Former prime minister of Rhodesia, who avowed that white…
(Joseph Russell Smith) economist, scholar, geographerBorn: 1874Birthplace: near Lincoln, Va. Having studied and taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School of…
MATHIAS, Robert Bruce (Bob), a Representative from California; born in Tulare, Tulare County, Calif., November 17, 1930; attended Tulare High School, Tulare, Calif.; graduated from Kiski…
MATHIAS, Robert Bruce (Bob), a Representative from California; born in Tulare, Tulare County, Calif., November 17, 1930; attended Tulare High School, Tulare, Calif.; graduated from Kiski…
(Encyclopedia) Lucie-Smith, Edward, 1933–, British poet and art critic, b. Jamaica, grad. Oxford, 1954. He has lived in London since 1951, where he worked as an advertising copywriter (1956–66) and…
(Encyclopedia) Smith, William Robertson, 1846–94, Scottish biblical scholar and Orientalist. He studied for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland. From 1870 he was professor of Oriental…
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Sir William Sidney, 1764–1840, British admiral. He was a distinguished commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and is especially remembered for his defense of…
