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Salinger, J. D.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...composing the words to the school's anthem. Published author In 1938 Salinger enrolled in Ursinus College at Collegeville, Pennsylvania. While at Ursinus he resumed his literary pursuits, contributing a humorous column to the school's weekly...
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Saint Damasus I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...84), a Spaniard; successor of Liberius. His election was opposed by the Arian Ursinus (antipope 366-67). The Roman emperor Valentinian I had Ursinus exiled and decreed that all religious cases must come before the pope. Damasus ruled...
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wombat
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Tasmania. Both species are herbivorous, primarily nocturnal, and live in extensive burrows. The common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) has coarse black hair and small ears. The hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) has finer, grey fur and large...
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Edelman, Gerald M.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...attending public schools in New York City through high school, Edelman went to Collegeville, Pennsylvania, to study chemistry at Ursinus College. He graduated magna cum laude in 1950 and then headed off to the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania...
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Mammals, Sea
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...porpoises, Phocena; narwhals, Monodon nanuk; sea lions, Eumentiapias jubata and Otaria jubata; and fur seals, Callorhinus ursinus alsacensis and Arctocephalus australis. Seals, walrus, polar bears, bearded seals, sea lions, fur seals, and porpoise...
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Popes of the Roman Catholic Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Marcus, 336 St. Julius I , 337-52 Liberius, 352-66 antipope: Felix , 355-65 St. Damasus I , 366-84 antipope: Ursinus, 366-67 St. Siricius, 384-99 St. Anastasius I, 399-401 St. Innocent I , 401-17 St. Zosimus, 417-18 St. Boniface...
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fur seal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and the ability to turn their hind flippers forward for walking on land. The northern, or Alaskan, fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, has an outer coat of long coarse hair known as guard hair and an inner coat of thick soft fur; it is the inner coat that...
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bear
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and is fond of honey; it is sometimes called honey bear (a name also applied to the kinkajou ). The sloth bear, Melursus ursinus, is a medium-sized bear of the forests of S India and Sri Lanka. The North American brown bears, including the Kodiak...
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loganberry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
loganberry Biennial, hybrid, red-berried bramble. It is a cross between a blackberry and raspberry. Family Rosaceae; species Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...areas of both research and practice. Robert Yerkes was born in Bucks County, Pa., on May 26, 1876. He graduated from Ursinus College in 1892. Financial problems and the offer of a fellowship in zoology at Harvard deflected him from a long-held wish...
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