first and longtime prime minister of independent Trinidad and Tobago (1962-81), who founded (1956) the People's National Movement (PNM) and led his country to independence.
American historian, clergyman, politician, lawyer, lecturer, and soldier who was the first person to write an objective and scientifically researched history of black people in the United States.
American activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 1997 she and the campaign were named corecipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Canadian sprinter, winner of two upset gold medals at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He is the only sprinter not from the United States to win two gold medals ...
104th archbishop of Canterbury (from 2002), a noted theologian, archbishop of the Church in Wales (2000-2002), and the first archbishop of Canterbury in modern times chosen from outside the Church ...
American union leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1981-83) before being convicted in 1982 with four others of conspiring to bribe Howard Cannon, U.S. senator from Nevada, to ...
professional baseball player who compiled a lifetime batting average of .344 as an outfielder with the American League Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960. He was the last player ...
American tennis players and sisters who revolutionized women's tennis with their powerful style of play and became the game's most dominant players. From 1999 to 2005 they collected 12 grand ...
historic city, seat (1654) of James City county (though administratively independent of it), southeastern Virginia, U.S., on a tidewater peninsula, between the James and York rivers, 27 miles (43 km) ...
county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered to the south by the Santee River, and the Great Pee Dee River touches the northeastern extremity; the county is also drained ...
city, seat (1896) of Mingo county, southwestern West Virginia, U.S. It lies on Tug Fork, opposite South Williamson, Kentucky (to which it is connected by bridge), and is at the ...
Australian dramatist and screenwriter known for topical satiric comedies that display his flair for naturalism and local vernacular. He explored the psychology of social interaction, focusing on the social and ...
American blues vocalist and the first influential harmonica virtuoso, a self-taught player who developed several technical innovations on his instrument.
city, seat (1796) of Lycoming county, north-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies on the West Branch Susquehanna River, opposite South Williamsport, and in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 75 miles ...
town (township), Berkshire county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Hoosic River 21 miles (34 km) north of Pittsfield. Settled as West Hoosac in 1749, it was incorporated in 1765 and ...
city and principal community in the town (township) of Windham, Windham county, east-central Connecticut, U.S., at the junction of the Willimantic and Natchaug rivers. The site was settled about 1686 ...
township, Burlington county, western New Jersey, U.S. It lies midway between Camden and Trenton (both in New Jersey) on Rancocas Creek, just upstream from the creek's mouth in the Delaware ...
British organ builder, a meticulous craftsman and designer whose splendid instruments, though limited and perhaps decadent in comparison with the 18th-century German classical organ, were perfectly suited to the music ...
British physicians, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions; he is known for his careful studies of ...
city, seat (1891) of Williams county, northwestern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Missouri River, 20 miles (30 km) east of the Montana state line and 65 miles (105 ...
large sedimentary basin along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in western North Dakota, eastern Montana, and southern Saskatchewan, Can. The basin is characterized by thick sequences of sediments ...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate in 1940, who tried unsuccessfully to unseat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He subsequently became identified with his famous "One World" concept of international cooperation.
city, seat (1871) of Kandiyohi county, southwest-central Minnesota, U.S. It is situated on Foot and Willmar lakes, in a lake region about 60 miles (95 km) southwest of St. Cloud. ...
governor of Barbados who in 1651 brought about the settlement of Suriname (then nominally Spanish territory) by immigrants from Caribbean and other South American colonies. Originally a supporter of Parliament ...
shrubs and trees of the genus Salix, family Salicaceae, mostly native to north temperate areas, valued for ornament, shade, erosion control, and timber. Salicin, source of salicylic acid used in ...
any of several species of North American ornamental and timber trees belonging to the red oak group of the genus Quercus, in the beech family (Fagaceae), which have willowlike leaves.
ditch and embankment planted with willows built across part of southeastern Manchuria during the early Ch'ing (1644-1911/12) dynasty. The Chinese (Han) in Manchuria, possibly from as early as 1,000 BC, ...
landscape design developed by Thomas Turner at Caughley, Shropshire, Eng., in 1779 in imitation of the Chinese. Its classic components are a weeping willow, pagoda-like structures, three men on a ...
village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on Lake Michigan, it is a primarily residential suburb of Chicago, about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown. Illinois and later Potawatomi ...
largest city in Delaware, U.S., and seat of New Castle county at the influx of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek into the Delaware River. It is the state's industrial, ...
city, seat of New Hanover county, southeastern North Carolina, U.S. It is the state's chief seaport and lies on the Cape Fear River, about 30 miles (48 km) above its ...
also called (1728-30) Baron Wilmington British politician, favourite of King George II and nominal prime minister of Great Britain from February 1742 to July 1743.
in U.S. history, important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built. Soon ...
city, seat (1855) of Wilson county, east-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies roughly midway between Rocky Mount (north) and Goldsboro (south) and is about 45 miles (70 km) east of ...
(Aug. 10, 1861), in the American Civil War, successful Southern engagement fought between 5,400 Union troops under General Nathaniel Lyon and a combined force of more than 10,000 Confederate troops ...
a hereditary defect associated with the metabolism of copper and characterized by the progressive degeneration of the basal ganglia of the brain (large group of nuclei involved in the control ...
southernmost point of the Australian mainland, in Victoria, 110 miles (177 km) southeast of Melbourne. A granite peninsula, 22 miles long with a maximum width of 14 miles, it projects ...
English essayist, journalist, and author of satiric novels of British society and of scholarly biographies of literary figures. His characters are typically eccentric, sexually ambiguous, and aimless.
Scottish-born ornithologist and poet whose pioneering work on North American birds, American Ornithology, 9 vol., (1808-14), established him as a founder of American ornithology and one of the foremost naturalists ...
American playwright, author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for
Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study ...
American first lady (1915-21), the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. When he was disabled by illness during his second term, she fulfilled many of ...
American biologist recognized as the world's leading authority on ants. He was also the foremost proponent of sociobiology, the study of the genetic basis of the social behaviour of all ...
American first lady (1913-14), the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. Although far less famous than her husband's second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, Ellen played ...
American comedian whose comedy variety show, The Flip Wilson Show, was one of the first television shows hosted by an African American to be a ratings success. ...
one of the first African Americans to publish a novel in English in the United States. Her work, entitled Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, ...
18th vice president of the United States (1873-75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement.
British field marshal, commander in chief in the Middle East (February-December 1943), and supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean (December 1943-November 1944), popularly known as "Jumbo" because of his great ...
Canadian geologist and geophysicist who established global patterns of faulting and the structure of the continents. His studies in plate tectonics had an important bearing on the theories of continental ...
