(Encyclopedia) Wellesley College, at Wellesley, Mass.; for women; chartered 1870, opened 1875. Long a leader in women's education, it was the first woman's college to have scientific laboratories.…
(Encyclopedia) West Chester, borough (1990 pop. 18,041), seat of Chester co., SE Pa., W of Philadelphia; inc. 1799. Primarily residential, West Chester was long the trade and processing center for an…
(Encyclopedia) ZittauZittautsĭtˈou [key], city (1994 pop. 30,874), Saxony, E central Germany, on the Lusatian Neisse River, near the Polish and Czech borders. It is a road and rail hub and a center…
(Encyclopedia) Rogers, William Barton, 1804–82, American geologist and educator, b. Philadelphia, grad. William and Mary, 1822. He was professor of geology at William and Mary (1828–35) and at the…
(Encyclopedia) SkellefteåSkellefteåshĕlĕfˈtəōˌ [key], city (1990 pop. 31,050), Västerbotten co., NE Sweden, on the Skellefteälven River inland from its mouth on the Gulf of Bothnia. The center of a…
inventorBorn: 1806Birthplace: New Orleans, La. Born to a French father and an African-American mother, Norbert Rillieux studied at Catholic schools in Louisiana before traveling to France to study…
entrepreneurBorn: 1936Birthplace: Korea Kim came to the United States in 1955 to study economics at the University of Pennsylvania. After teaching at Villanova University for six years, he founded…
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T. rex on the Silver Screen A history of dinosaur movies by Beth Rowen With the enormous success of the Jurassic Park film franchise—the first two installments are among the…
JOHNSON, Bill, a Representative from Ohio; born in Roseboro, Sampson County, N.C., November 10, 1954; B.S., Troy University, Troy, Ala., 1979; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,…
