Scottish-born economist and statistician whose work as a publicist did much to assure general acceptance of the economic principles of his contemporary, the economist David Ricardo.
American novelist whose best-known works are Graustark (1901; filmed 1915 and 1925), a romantic novel set in a mythical middle European kingdom, and Brewster's Millions (1902; filmed 1914, 1921, 1935, ...
observatory founded in 1939 by the University of Texas, on the legacy of the Texas financier William J. McDonald, on Mount Locke near Fort Davis, Texas. The observatory includes the ...
U.S. food service and restaurant company that operates the world's largest fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's. It owns theme restaurant chains in the United States and other countries and has interests ...
British-born U.S. psychologist influential in establishing experimental and physiological psychology and author of An Introduction to Social Psychology (1908; 30th ed. 1960), which did much to stimulate widespread study of ...
American tennis player who established himself as a leading competitor in the late 1970s and the '80s. He also was noted for his poor behaviour on court, which resulted in ...
British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark humour and perverse subject matter.
American economist and cowinner (with James J. Heckman) of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Economics for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual or household ...
American geologist and archaeologist who was noted for his pioneer studies of Pleistocene geology (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago) of the upper Mississippi River valley and the stratigraphy of the ...
private state-supported English-language university in Montreal that is internationally known for its work in chemistry, medicine, and biology. A bequest from the estate of James McGill, a Montreal merchant, was ...
crusading American journalist whose editorials in the Atlanta Constitution had a profound influence on social change in the southern United States. He was sometimes called "the conscience of the New ...
French-Indian who became the principal chief of the Creek Indians in the years following the American Revolution. He was largely responsible for the Creeks' retention of their tribal identity and ...
U.S. senator who was an unsuccessful reformist Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1972. He campaigned on a platform advocating an immediate end to the Vietnam War and for a ...
Irish-born American religious leader and educator, the first American superior in the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, whose efforts increased the scope and quality of Roman Catholic education in ...
professional baseball player, considered one of the most powerful hitters in the history of the game. In 1998 he set a major league record for most home runs in a ...
American encyclopaedist, editor, and author who was vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1992 to 1997, during its difficult transition from a print product sold door-to-door ...
U.S. architect and craftsman known as "the architect of Salem." A versatile craftsman, McIntire designed and produced furniture and interior woodwork in addition to his domestic architecture, in which he ...
Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an American black to that time. Before going to the U.S. in 1912, he ...
county, northern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by New York state. It consists of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau that is drained largely by the Allegheny River ...
city, Allegheny county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. It is situated at the junction of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. First settled about 1769 by ...
British statesman who, as first lord of the Admiralty, initiated in 1909 a battleship construction program that gave Great Britain a considerable advantage over Germany in capital-ship strength at the ...
original name Siobhan Giollamhuire Nic Cionnaith versatile Irish actress best known for her portrayals of such impassioned characters as Shaw's Saint Joan and Pegeen Mike, the lusty innkeeper in John ...
Canadian-born British political scientist and television commentator on electoral politics. In the latter role, McKenzie popularized to the British public the word psephology (the study of votes) and the idea ...
New Zealand statesman who, as minister of lands (1891-1900), sponsored legislation that provided land and credit to small farmers and helped to break up large estates.
one of the 20th century's most innovative American quilt designers. Educated at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School of Design) in New York City, ...
highest peak (20,320 ft [6,194 m]) in North America, located near the centre of the Alaska Range, south central Alaska, U.S. Lying 130 mi (210 km) north-northwest of Anchorage in ...
25th president of the United States (1897-1901). Under McKinley's leadership, the United States went to war against Spain in 1898 and thereby acquired a global empire, including Puerto Rico, Guam, ...
city, seat (1848) of Collin county, northeastern Texas, U.S., near the East Fork of Trinity River. Named for one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, it was ...
New Zealand-born automobile racing driver, the youngest to win an international Grand Prix contest for Formula I cars (the U.S. race in 1959, when he was 22), also noted as ...
English guitar virtuoso and bandleader whose extremely loud, highly energetic, eclectic soloing made him one of the most popular and influential jazz-rock musicians.
social service organizer who established and oversaw a large and highly successful organization that provided material aid, assistance, and information to both the American armed forces and civilians during World ...
Cabinet member and U.S. Supreme Court justice (1829-61) whose most famous opinion was his dissent in the Dred Scott decision (1857). He was also perhaps the most indefatigable seeker of ...
Canadian communications theorist and educator, whose aphorism "the medium is the message" summarized his view of the potent influence of television, computers, and other electronic disseminators of information in shaping ...
frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the Simla Conference (October 1913-July 1914) and named after the chief British ...
American nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951 with Glenn T. Seaborg for his discovery of element 93, neptunium, the first element heavier than uranium, thus ...
African-American novelist whose work often portrays feisty, independent black women and their attempts to find fulfilling relationships with black men.
city, seat (1886) of Yamhill county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the South Yamhill River. Settled in 1844 and named for McMinnville, Tennessee, it developed as a service centre for Yamhill ...
bay off Antarctica that forms the western extension of Ross Sea, lying at the edge of Ross Ice Shelf, west of Ross Island and east of Victoria Land. The channel, ...
U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 who revamped Pentagon operations and who played a major role in the nation's military involvement in Vietnam.
American journalist whose nonfiction books are accessible and informative on a wide variety of topics-particularly profiles of figures in sports, science, and the environment. Many of his books are adaptations ...
city, seat (1873) of McPherson county, central Kansas, U.S. Laid out in 1872 on the Santa Fe Trail, it was named for James B. McPherson, a Union general killed in ...
