(Encyclopedia) Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan Byatt)Byatt, A. S.bīˈət [key], 1936–, British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble. Educated at Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., and Oxford, she is a…
EVINS, Joseph Landon, a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Blend, DeKalb County, Tenn., October 24, 1910; attended the public schools; was graduated from Vanderbilt University…
(Encyclopedia) Harlan, John Marshall, 1833–1911, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877–1911), b. Boyle co., Ky., grad. Centre College, 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853,…
(Encyclopedia) kinetic-molecular theory of gases, physical theory that explains the behavior of gases on the basis of the following assumptions: (1) Any gas is composed of a very large number of very…
Susan Boudinot is remembered as one of the youngest protesters in colonial America. When she was 9, she and her family were visiting the royal governor of New Jersey. She was offered a cup of tea…
GRASSO, Ella Tambussi, a Representative from Connecticut; born Ella Rose Tambussi in Windsor Locks, Hartford County, Conn., May 10, 1919; attended the St. Maryâs School in Windsor Locks, and…
Senate Years of Service: 1945-1954Party: DemocratHOEY, Clyde Roark, a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., on December 11, 1877; attended…
The Endurance Shackleton's expedition trapped by an iceberg in the South Atlantic by Susan Hyde On December 5, 1914, Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, and 27 men set sail…
