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(Encyclopedia) Finlay, Carlos JuanFinlay, Carlos Juankärˈlōs hwän fēnlī [key], or Charles John FinlayFinlay, Carlos Juanfĭnˈlē [key], 1833–1915, Cuban physician of Scottish and French descent;…
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COSDEN, Jeremiah, a Representative from Maryland; born in 1768; elected as a Republican and presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821,…
poetBorn: 6/13/1865Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Nobel Prize-winning Anglo-Irish poet whose work interweaves mysticism, Irish history, love, and self-analysis. Yeat's books include The Rose (1893),…
columnist, authorBorn: 6/18/1913Birthplace: Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y. In 1931 Sylvia Field Feldman married a banker, Reed Porter. The following year she graduated from Hunter College. Porter…
HANNA, Richard, a Representative from New York; born in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., January 25, 1951; graduated from Whitesboro High School, Marcy, N.Y.; B.A., Reed College, Portland, Oreg.,…
(Encyclopedia) fescuefescuefĕsˈky&oomacr; [key], any of some 100 species of introduced Old World grasses of the genus Festuca. Meadow fescue and tall, or reed, fescue are excellent forage crops…
