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Kenneth Winston Starr
STARR, KENNETH WINSTON Kenneth Starr has served as a judge on the court of appeals, as U.S. solicitor general, and came to national attention as the independent counsel who investigated President bill clinton and his administration. Appointed as independent counsel in 1994, Starr garnered both... Read more |
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Gang Starr
Gang Starr Rap duo Determined to Make It Big Composed for Spike Lee Operation a Success Selected discography Sources A pioneer of jazz-rap fusion, Gang Starr is an innovative hip-hop duo composed of rapper Keith Elam, known as Read more |
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Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr Singer, drummer, songwriter That’s the Job for Me” Beatlemania Solo Career Marked by Ups and Downs Selected discography Sources Describing his life as the drummer for the most famous, and arguably the greatest, band in rock and roll history, Ringo Starr in 1992 admitted in... Read more |
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Belle Starr
Belle Starr Legendary American outlaw Belle Starr (1848–1889) developed a reputation as a "Bandit Queen" of the Old West. Though she was an expert rider who could handle a gun, and who was associated with famous outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, many accounts of her life contain more... Read more |
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David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan 1851-1931, American scientist and educator, b. Gainesville, N.Y., M.S. Cornell, 1872, M.D. Indiana Medical College, 1875, and studied under Louis Agassiz at Penikese Island. He taught (1875-79) at Butler Univ. and in 1879 became professor of zoology and head of the department of... Read more |
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William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner 1840-1910, American sociologist and political economist, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Yale, 1863, and studied in Germany, in Switzerland, and at Oxford. He was ordained an Episcopal minister and from 1872 was professor of political and social science at Yale. In economics he... Read more |
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Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914, British statesman. After a successful business career, he entered local politics and won distinction as a reforming mayor of Birmingham (1873-76). Entering Parliament as a Liberal in 1876, Chamberlain advocated radical social reform and served under William Gladstone ... Read more |
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson
Sir Leander Starr Jameson 1853-1917, British colonial administrator and statesman in South Africa. He went to Kimberley (1878) as a physician, became associated with Cecil Rhodes in his colonizing ventures, and was appointed (1891) administrator of Mashonaland. On Dec. 29, 1895, he led a band of... Read more |
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Jameson Raid 1895-1896
Jameson Raid, 1895. At the time (29 December 1895) this was presented as a brave attempt by a troop of part-time cavalry led by Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the British South Africa Company's representative in Rhodesia, to rescue English women and children persecuted by a wicked Boer government in... Read more |
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Carl H. Eigenmann
Eigenmann, Carl H. (b. Flehingen, Germany, 9 March 1863; d. Chula Vista, California, 24 April 1927) ichthyology. The son of Philip and Margaretha Lieb Eigenmann, Carl intended to study law when he entered Indiana University in 1879, two years after his arrival in the United States with an uncle.... Read more |
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