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Mitford, Nancy
(Encyclopedia)Mitford, Nancy, 1904–73, English novelist and biographer, b. London. She managed a London bookshop during World War II and moved to Paris in 1945. Mitford and her five celebrated and politically div...Mitford, Jessica
(Encyclopedia)Mitford, Jessica: see under Mitford, Nancy.Nancy
(Encyclopedia)Nancy näNs´ [key], city (1990 pop. 102,410), capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle dept., NE France, on the Meurthe River and the Marne-Rhine Canal. It is the administrative, economic, and educational cen...Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald
(Encyclopedia)Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald mz´l [key], 1896–1980, British fascist leader. He entered (1918) Parliament as a Conservative, became (1922) an independent, and then joined (1924) the Labour party. H...Chodorow, Nancy
(Encyclopedia)Chodorow, Nancy chd´r [key], 1944–, American psychologist. A professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, Chodorow has extensively pursued the question of why women desire motherhood. ...Mitford, Mary Russell
(Encyclopedia)Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787–1855, English author. Her first volume of poetry (1810) sold well despite adverse criticism. Later she turned to playwriting, writing one notable success, Rienzi (1828). ...Reagan, Nancy Davis
(Encyclopedia)Reagan, Nancy Davis: see under Reagan, Ronald Wilson.Pelosi, Nancy Patricia
(Encyclopedia)Pelosi, Nancy Patricia pl´s [key], 1940–, U.S. congresswoman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–11, 2019–), b. Baltimore as Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro. The daughter of Th...Kassebaum-Baker, Nancy Landon
(Encyclopedia)Kassebaum-Baker, Nancy Landon ks´bôm, –boum [key], 1932–, U.S. senator from Kansas (1979–97), b. Topeka, Kans. A Republican and the daughter of Kansas governor Alfred Mossman (Alf) Lan...Meurthe-et-Moselle
(Encyclopedia)Meurthe-et-Moselle mörtmôzl´ [key], department (1990 pop. 711,500), NE France, in Lorraine, bordering on Belgium and Luxembourg. Nancy is the capital. ...Browse by Subject
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