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N. Scott Momaday

poet, author, scholar, painterBorn: February 27, 1934Birthplace: Kiowa Indian reservation, Lawton, Oklahoma As a writer Navarre Scott Momaday draws from the "pan-Indian experience" that was his…

Kristin Scott Thomas

actressBorn: 5/24/1960Birthplace: Redruth, Cornwall, England After being discouraged by her English acting teachers, Scott Thomas moved to Paris at the age of 19, where she studied at L'Ecole…

Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott

(Encyclopedia) Schiller, Ferdinand Canning ScottSchiller, Ferdinand Canning Scottshĭlˈər [key], 1864–1937, British philosopher. Schiller studied at Oxford and was professor of philosophy there (1897–…

Scott, Hugh Lenox

(Encyclopedia) Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853–1934, U.S. army officer, b. Danville, Ky., grad. West Point, 1876. He was assigned (1876) to military service in the West and took part in the Sioux, Nez Percé…

Haldane, John Scott

(Encyclopedia) Haldane, John Scott, 1860–1936, British scientist, b. Edinburgh; father of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. He made many important contributions to mine safety, investigating principally…

Carpenter, Malcolm Scott

(Encyclopedia) Carpenter, Malcolm Scott, 1925–2013, American astronaut, b. Boulder, Colo. The second American to go into orbital flight around the earth, he made his historic and suspenseful flight…

King, Coretta Scott

(Encyclopedia) King, Coretta Scott, 1927–2006, American civil-rights leader, b. Heiberger, Ala.; the wife (1953–68) of Martin Luther King, Jr. After her husband's assassination, she carried on his…

Keltie, Sir John Scott

(Encyclopedia) Keltie, Sir John Scott, 1840–1927, Scottish geographer. He was inspector of geographical education for the Royal Geographic Society, librarian, and secretary of the society. In 1880 he…

Reed, Ishmael Scott

(Encyclopedia) Reed, Ishmael Scott, 1938- , African-American novelist, poet, and social critic, b. Chattanooga, Tn. When he was a child, Reed’s…

Hardie SCOTT, Congress, PA (1907-1999)

SCOTT, Hardie, (son of John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pa., June 7, 1907; graduated from Taft School, Watertown, Conn.,…