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Philip the Fair

(Encyclopedia) Philip the Fair: see Philip IV, king of France.

Philip the Tall

(Encyclopedia) Philip the Tall: see Philip V, king of France.

William the Conqueror

(Encyclopedia) William the Conqueror: see William I, king of England.

Philip the Handsome

(Encyclopedia) Philip the Handsome: see Philip I, Spanish king of Castile.

Water Bearer, The

(Encyclopedia) Water Bearer, The, English name for Aquarius, a constellation.

(Encyclopedia) comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts…

Biographies of Animated Characters and their Creators

Spiderman, SpongeBob, Matt Groening, Walt Disney . . . Related Links Comics Timeline Encyclopedia: Comic Strips Top Ten: Highest Earning Fictional Characters…

Carroll, James

(Encyclopedia) Carroll, James, 1854–1907, American bacteriologist and army surgeon, b. Woolwich, England, M.D. Univ. of Maryland, 1891. He went to Canada at 15 and later joined the U.S. army. A…

Aaron HARLAN, Congress, OH (1802-1868)

HARLAN, Aaron, (cousin of Andrew Jackson Harlan), a Representative from Ohio; was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 8, 1802; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the…

Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseyevich

(Encyclopedia) Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseyevich, 1911–95, Soviet chess grandmaster, b. near St. Petersburg. He learned chess at the age of 12 and within a decade became the Soviet champion, a title he…