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city (1990 pop. 80,505), seat of Woodbury co., NW Iowa, at the junction of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers with the Missouri; inc. 1857. It is a shippi...
1823–1910, English educator, historian, and journalist. Educated at Oxford, he took a prominent part in executing reforms at the university and beca...
1834–1906, American scientist, b. Roxbury, Mass., received only a high school education but continued his studies in science in Boston libraries. He...
(Walter Wellesley Smith), 1905–82, American sportswriter, b. Green Bay, Wis., grad. Notre Dame, 1927. After working on newspapers in St. Louis and P...
(hwän d läs r ´läs, r ´läs) (KEY) , c.1558–1625, Spanish painter of the school of Seville. He is sometimes called the Spanish Tintoretto; t...
1892–1947, American biophysicist, b. Glogow, Austria (now Poland). He moved to the United States in 1898 and was graduated from the College of the C...