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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird 1888-1946, Scottish inventor. In 1926 he gave the first demonstration of true television with a televisor of his own invention that differed from later instruments in being partially mechanical rather than wholly electronic. He accomplished transatlantic television in 1928 and demo...
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Zebulon Baird Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance 1830-94, American political leader, Confederate governor of North Carolina (1862-65) in the Civil War, b. Buncombe co., N.C. A lawyer and a Whig, he served in the state legislature (1854) and in Congress (1858-61). Opposed to secession until President Lincoln's call for troops, ...
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James Baird Weaver
James Baird Weaver 1833-1912, American political leader, b. Dayton, Ohio. Reared in frontier areas of Michigan and Iowa, he practiced law in Iowa. He served in the Union army in the Civil War and rose from the rank of private to that of brevet brigadier general. He held several offices in Iowa befo...
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Huguenots
Huguenots , French Protestants, followers of John Calvin . The term is derived from the German Eidgenossen, meaning sworn companions or confederates.
Origins
Prior to Calvin's publication in 1536 of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, a reform movement already existed in France....
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Camisards
Camisards , Protestant peasants of the Cévennes region of France who in 1702 rebelled against the persecutions that followed the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes (see Nantes, Edict of ). The name was probably given them because of the shirts they wore in night raids. Led by the young...
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Choctaw
Choctaw , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They formerly occupied central and S Mississippi with some outlying groups in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. Choctaw culture was similar to that o...
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sandpiper
sandpiper common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew . Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all sorts of small invertebrates. The...
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Osage
Osage , indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). In prehistoric times they lived with the Kansa, the Ponca, the Omaha, and the Quapaw in the Ohio valley, but by 1673 they had migrated to the...
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television
television transmission and reception of still or moving images by means of electrical signals, especially by means of electromagnetic radiation using the techniques of radio and by fiberoptic and coaxial cables. Television has become a major industry, especially in the industrialized nations, ...
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James John Corbett
James John Corbett , 1866-1933, American boxer, b. San Francisco. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett won (1892) the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan at New Orleans and lost (1897) the title to Robert L. Fitzsimmons at Carson City, Nev. He failed (1900, 1903) to regain the title in ...
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