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Stanley Cup

(Encyclopedia)Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice.

Stanley Falls

(Encyclopedia)Stanley Falls: see Boyoma Falls. ...

Stanley Pool

(Encyclopedia)Stanley Pool, Congo: see Pool Malebo. ...

Stanley, Ralph Edmond

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Ralph Edmond, 1927–2016, American bluegrass singer and banjo player, b. Dickenson co., Va. He and his brother, Carter Glen Stanley, 1925–66, were sons of a country-singer father and banjo...

Stanley, Carter Glen

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Carter Glen: see under Stanley, Ralph Edmond. ...

Stanley, Edward Henry

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Edward Henry: see Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of. ...

Arthur

(Encyclopedia)Arthur, king of Britain: see Arthurian legend. ...

Stanley, William Meredith

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, William Meredith, 1904–71, American biochemist, b. Ridgeville, Ind., Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1929. He was a professor at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller Uni...

Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon

(Encyclopedia)Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon kyo͞oˈnĭts [key], 1905–2006, American poet, teacher, and editor, b. Worcester, Mass. He graduated from Harvard (B.A., 1926; M.A., 1927), worked as a journalist and editor,...

Clarke, Arthur C.

(Encyclopedia)Clarke, Arthur C. (Sir Arthur Charles Clarke), 1917–2008, British science fiction writer. During World War II he served as a radar instructor and aviator in the Royal Air Force. After the war he obt...