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Walden Pond

(Encyclopedia)Walden Pond, Mass.: see Thoreau, Henry David. ...

Adamson, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Adamson, Robert: see Hill, David Octavius. ...

Mackenzie, Alexander, Canadian political leader

(Encyclopedia)Mackenzie, Alexander, 1822–92, Canadian political leader, b. Scotland. Emigrating (1842) to Canada, he worked first as a stonemason in Kingston, Ont., and then as a builder and contractor in Sarnia....

Ellsworth, Lincoln

(Encyclopedia)Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880–1951, American explorer, b. Chicago, Ill. He was a surveyor and engineer in railroad building and later a prospector and mining engineer in NW Canada. He became the financia...

Chronicles

(Encyclopedia)Chronicles, two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Seco...

Packard Foundation

(Encyclopedia)Packard Foundation: see David and Lucile Packard Foundation. ...

Jeribai

(Encyclopedia)Jeribai jĕrˈĭbā [key], in the Bible, soldier of David. ...

Ibhar

(Encyclopedia)Ibhar ĭbˈhär [key], in the Bible, son of David. ...

Ithream

(Encyclopedia)Ithream ĭthˈrēəm [key], in the Bible, son of David. ...

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