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Presley, Elvis

(Encyclopedia) Presley, Elvis (Elvis Aaron Presley), 1935–77, American popular singer, b. Tupelo, Miss. Exposed to gospel music…

paleontology

(Encyclopedia) paleontologypaleontologypāˌlēəntŏlˈəjē [key] [Gr.,= study of early beings], science of the life of past geologic periods based on fossil remains. Knowledge of the existence of fossils…

Forster, E. M.

(Encyclopedia) Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan Forster), 1879–1970, English author, one of the most important British novelists of the 20th cent. After graduating from Cambridge, Forster lived in Italy…

Galbraith, John Kenneth

(Encyclopedia) Galbraith, John KennethGalbraith, John Kennethgălˈbrāth [key], 1908–2006, American economist and public official, b. Ontario, Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.S., 1931), Univ. of…

Douglas, Kirk

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Kirk, 1916–2020, American film actor, b. Amsterdam, N.Y., as Issur Danielovitch, later Isadore Demsky. A leading man with a muscular physique and handsome cleft-chin face that…

table tennis

(Encyclopedia) table tennis, game played, usually indoors, by two or four players; it is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis. It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a…

San Antonio, Tex.

Mayor: Ivy Taylor (to May 2017) City Manager: Sheryl L. Sculley 2010 census population (rank): 1,327,407…

Women Reformers and Activists

  Abbott - Crandell | Davies - King | La Flesche - Sanger | Seton - Wright Mary Church Terrell Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists…

People Who Died in 2007

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