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Van Allen radiation belts: The solar wind, a stream of protons, electrons, and ions coming from the sun, gives the belts their asymmetrical shape.
Van Allen radiation belts,…
Senate Years of Service: 1978-1978Party: DemocratALLEN, Maryon Pittman, (wife of James Browning Allen), a Senator from Alabama; born Maryon Pittman in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss.,…
ALLEN, Nathaniel, (father-in-law of Robert Lawson Rose), a Representative from New York; born in East Bloomfield, N.Y., in 1780; attended the common schools; worked as a blacksmith at…
ALLEN, Charles, (son of Joseph Allen and grandnephew of Samuel Adams), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., August 9, 1797; attended the Leicester Academy 1809-1811…
ALLEN, John, (father of John William Allen), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Great Barrington, Mass., June 12, 1763; attended the common schools; studied law at the Litchfield Law…
Senate Years of Service: 1969-1978Party: DemocratALLEN, James Browning, (husband of Maryon Pittman Allen), a Senator from Alabama; born in Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., December 28, 1912;…
ALLEN, Robert, (brother of John James Allen), a Representative from Virginia; born in the village of Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va., July 30, 1794; attended the rural schools, and Dickinson…
ALLEN, Willis, (father of William Joshua Allen), a Representative from Illinois; born near Roanoke, Va., December 15, 1806; attended the common schools; taught school; moved to Tennessee and…
WEST, Allen, a Representative from Florida; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, on February 7, 1961; B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., Kansas State University; United States Army; M.M.…
Senate Years of Service: 1837-1849 Party: Democrat ALLEN, William, a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., December 18 or December 27, 1803; moved to…
