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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee SimpsonPop singer The daughter of a former Sunday school teacher and Baptist youth minister, singer Ashlee Simpson grew up in a household of high religious values, a superstar older sister, and encouraged opportunity for creativity. Born on October 3, 1984, to mother Tina Simpson (who home... Read more |
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George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson 1902-84, American paleontologist and zoologist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Yale, 1926. He became assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 1927. From fossil material gathered on trips to the W and SE United States and to... Read more |
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Jessica Simpson
Simpson, Jessica July 10, 1980 • Richardson, Texas Singer Pop star Jessica Simpson's career has been something of a roller coaster ride, rife with stomach-lurching highs and lows and unexpected turns. She began singing Christian music professionally as a preteen and earned a record deal... Read more |
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Louis Simpson
Louis Simpson 1923-, American poet, b. Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He began teaching at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1959. Using experience—frequently drawn from his childhood in Jamaica in his earlier work and later reflecting ordinary daily... Read more |
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Adele Simpson
SIMPSON, Adele American fashion designer Born: Adele Smithline, in New York City, 28 December 1904. Education: Studied dressmaking at Pratt Institute of Design, Brooklyn, New York, 1921-22. Family: Married textile manufacturer Wesley William Simpson, 1930 (deceased); children: Jeffrey, Joan.... Read more |
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O.J. Simpson
O. J. Simpson 1947– Professional football player, sports commentator At a Glance Read more |
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Sir George Simpson
Sir George Simpson 1792?-1860, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada (1821-56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, where he took charge of the important Athabaska fur district. Appointed (1821) governor of the northern department of the company (with... Read more |
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John Simpson Chisum
John Simpson Chisum , 1824-84, American cattleman, b. Tennessee. In 1837 he moved with his family to Texas. He had no formal education but worked as a builder and contractor, building the first courthouse in Paris, Tex. In 1854 he entered the cattle business; beginning in 1866, in partnership with... Read more |
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Tsimshian
Tsimshian , Native North Americans speaking a language probably falling within the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They lived around the Skeena and Nass rivers, south along the coast of British Columbia, and north into Alaska. Tsimshian culture, like that of the... Read more |
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Mrs Wallis Simpson
Simpson, Mrs Wallis (1896–1986). Wife of Edward, duke of Windsor. Born into a Baltimore family, Bessie Wallis Warfield first married an aviator, Earl Winfield Spencer, but his fondness for drink led to separation and ultimately divorce. Mrs Spencer travelled the world, but on... Read more |
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New maternity unit may drop name of Simpson
...James Young Simpson, the man who...s maternity unit after more...Simpson's Memorial Maternity Pavilion...Special Care Babies, a voluntary...Special Care Babies in the phone...to fight any plan for a change...calling it the New Simpson...staff that units ... |
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NHS IN Crisis: New mums kicked out of wards six hours after having baby; PLAN...
...by sending new mums home just...birth. The plan for the new...having their babies. The new policy...the ERI's Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion...only maternity unit - is already...But the new unit at Little France...in midwife units outside ... |
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Parents' brief joy turns to agony and despair
...away from the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion...good as the baby's condition...than if, the baby would die...in an open-plan room in the...specialist neonatal unit. There are...haemorrhage in a baby as small as...of premature babies are nursed at...without her ... |
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Sunday Mail Special Report: HAVE YOUR BABY AT HOME; 12 maternity hospitals on...
...centres as they plan to close up...Maternity Units (CMUs) will...Edinburgh's Simpson Memorial and at the...Glasgow. The units at Ayrshire...maternity unit in Alexandria...mothers and babies at risk...the entire unit an estimated...unsustainable units open ... |
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Test kit boom for millennium baby contest
...start of the new millennium in...a millennium baby were advised...encourage the baby race, particularly...trying for a baby that night...over millennium babies was criticised...spokeswoman for Simpson's Memorial Maternity Pavilion...that maternity units would have ... |
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Births mark end of an era and a new start
TWO babies made history...world-famous Simpson maternity unit. Abby Kenny...the Simpson Memorial Maternity...the first new arrival at...city centre unit closed its...have my first baby. "I went...according to plan and I am very...the first baby at the ... |
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Memorial Hermann is latest to garner network attention.(ABC's new hospital...
...to ABC is a new series following...patients at Memorial Hermann Hospital...residency at Memorial Hermann; surgeon...for a miracle baby; and neonatologist...a premature baby's life at...1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial...Cellmark business unit is donating...clinics. He ... |
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So can the system deliver?
...delivery unit. "The place...room in the Simpson in Edinburgh...astonished. Simpsons seemed stuck...the need for new purpose-built...two cities. Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion...known simply as Simpsons and Rottenrow...out of 1000 babies born in Edinburgh...Under ... |
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Failing to deliver on choices for childbirth
...they had their babies. Rather than...The brave new world of childbirth...delivered their babies. Provision...where maternity units should be based...services in two units, the Simpson Memorial Pavilion in...excited about the plans. "Choices... |
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League table bid to end caesarean postcode lottery
...and Wales. The new report, by the...smaller maternity units. This is because...the chances of a baby experiencing breathing...denied that the new leaflet was an...every maternity unit in the country...surgery at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion...went according to ... |