publisherBorn: June 17, 1918Died: February 15, 2009 (New York City, USA) Best Known as: publisher Alfred A. Knof, Jr.'s father, Alfred A. Knof, was the founder of…
(Encyclopedia) Speke, John HanningSpeke, John Hanningspēk [key], 1827–64, English explorer in Africa. He joined Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions to Somaliland (1854) and to E central Africa (…
authorDied: February 8, 2008Best Known as: author of best-selling romantic mystery, young-adult, and children's mystery novels Deathplace: Faber, Virginia…
WILCOX, John A., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Greene County, N.C., April 18, 1819; moved to Tennessee; attended the common schools; moved to Mississippi and settled in Aberdeen;…
(Encyclopedia) Sulston, Sir John Edward, 1942–2018, British molecular biologist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1966. He was staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, from…
(Encyclopedia) Ross, Sir James Clark, 1800–1862, British polar explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, in search of the Northwest Passage and commanded the Erebus…
(Encyclopedia) Pennebaker, D. A. (Donn Alan Pennebaker), 1925–2019, pioneering documentary filmmaker, b. Evanston, Ill. His first film, Daybreak Express (1958), is a five-minute short detailing New…
(Encyclopedia) Davis or Davys, John, 1550?–1605, English navigator. He made his first voyage in search of the Northwest Passage in 1585, continuing the work of Martin Frobisher. On this voyage he…
McMAHON, John A., (nephew of Clement Laird Vallandigham), a Representative from Ohio; born in Frederick County, Md., February 19, 1833; pursued academic studies; graduated from St. Xavierâs…
(Encyclopedia) Keegan, Sir John Desmond Patrick, 1934–2012, British military historian, b. London. The foremost British military historian of his era, he attended Oxford and after graduation went to…
