(Encyclopedia) Philomena of Dacia, Peter, or Peter Nightingale, fl. 1291–1303, Danish astronomer and mathematician. He taught at the Univ. of Bologna (1291–92) and in Paris, and was a canon of…
(Encyclopedia) Murdock, George Peter, 1897–1985, American anthropologist, b. Meriden, Conn., grad. Yale (B.A., 1919; Ph.D., 1925). He taught at Yale and later at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, becoming…
Senate Years of Service: 1925-1929Party: DemocratTYSON, Lawrence Davis, a Senator from Tennessee; born on a farm near Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., July 4, 1861; attended the county schools…
HAYS, Lawrence Brooks, a Representative from Arkansas; born in London, Pope County, Ark., August 9, 1898; attended the public schools in Russellville, Ark.; University of Arkansas at…
(Encyclopedia) Peter III, 1728–62, czar of Russia (1762), son of Charles Frederick, dispossessed duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and of Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great. He succeeded to the…
Born: Feb. 4, 1959Football LB All-America at North Carolina (1980); only defensive player in NFL history to be consensus Player of Year (1986); led NY Giants to Super Bowl titles in 1986 and '90…
novelistBorn: 1920Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Sanders spent 20 years in journalism before turning to writing crime and suspense fiction. He wrote his first thriller, The Anderson Tapes (1970),…
(Encyclopedia) Mansfield, Sir Peter, 1933–2017, British physicist, Ph.D. Queen Mary College, London, 1962. He was a professor at the Univ. of Nottingham from 1964 to 1994. In 2003 Mansfield shared…
Distributor:Sony Wonder The Boston Pops Orchestra teams with the Sesame Street cast to present Sergei Prokofiev’s musical story Peter and the Wolf. A double treat: the Muppets convey the story in a…
LEARY, Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow, a Representative from Maryland; born in Baltimore, Md., October 22, 1813; attended the public schools; was graduated from St. Maryâs College, Baltimore, in…
