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Sulphur Springs

(Encyclopedia) Sulphur Springs, city (1990 pop. 14,062), seat of Hopkins co., NE Tex., in a farm area; inc. 1859. Vegetables, wheat, rice, and corn are grown, and livestock and dairying are important…

Low, Frank James

(Encyclopedia) Low, Frank James, 1933–2009, American astronomer and physicist, b. Mobile, Ala., grad. Yale (B.S. 1955), Rice Univ. (M.A. 1957, Ph.D 1959). Low, who worked at Texas Instruments and the…

Beaumont

(Encyclopedia) Beaumont, city (2020 pop. 115,282), seat of Jefferson co., Tex., on the Sabine-Neches Waterway; inc. 1838. A ship channel provides the…

Genetically Engineered Foods

"Frankenfoods" or Brave New World? The genetically engineered foods question by Kim Lundgren Skeptics claim that the so-called "Frankenstein foods" pose an insidious threat to the…

Black Football Players

Notable African-American Football Players Jerry Rice   Browse more African-American biographies by category…

Roberto Duran

Born: June 16, 1951Panamanian boxer one of only 4 fighters to hold 4 different world titles— lightweight (1972-79), welterweight (1980), junior middleweight (1983) and middleweight (1989-90); lost…

William Reynolds ARCHER, Jr., Congress, TX (1928)

ARCHER, William Reynolds, Jr., a Representative from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., March 22, 1928; attended private schools in Houston and Rice University, 1945-1946; B.B.A. and…

Charles DELANO, Congress, MA (1820-1883)

DELANO, Charles, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in New Braintree, Worcester County, Mass., June 24, 1820; moved with his parents to Amherst, Mass., in 1833; attended the common…