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Ted Turner Ted Turner
Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner 3d), 1938-, American television network executive, b. Cincinnati. After inheriting his father's billboard company, he founded (1976) a television station, WTBS, and built it into the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). He pioneered "superstation" broadcasting, in... Read more
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Robert Koch Robert Koch
Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert (b, Clausthal, Oberharz, Germany, 11 December 1843; d. Baden-Baden, Germany, 27 May 1910) bacteriology, hygiene, tropical medicine. Many of the basic Principles and techniques of modern bacteriology were adapted or devised by Koch, who therefore is often regarded as... Read more
Christian Friedrich Schonbein Christian Friedrich Schonbein
SCHöNBEIN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH(b. Metzingen, Swabia [now West Germany], 18 October 1799; d. Sauersberg, near Baden-Baden, Germany, 29 August 1868)physical chemistry.His family’ financial condition would not permit any advanced schooling, and at the age of fourteen Schoönbein became an apprentice in... Read more
Baden-Baden Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden , city (1994 pop. 52,710), Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, in the Black Forest. It is one of Europe's most fashionable spas; its manufactures include electronics and pharmaceuticals. The city has many parks, a large casino (built 1821-24), an opera house, and a modern and... Read more
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David Herbert Donald 1920-, American historian, b. Goodman, Miss. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois in 1946, he taught at Columbia (1947-49; 1951-59), Smith (1949-51), Princeton (1959-62), Johns Hopkins (1962-1972), and Harvard (1973-91; emeritus 1991-). An authority on the... Read more
Sir Roger David Casement Sir Roger David Casement
Sir Roger David Casement 1864-1916, Irish revolutionary. While in British consular service, he exposed (1904) the atrocious exploitation of wild-rubber gatherers in the Congo (thus helping to bring about the extinction of the Congo Free State in 1908) and later exposed similar conditions in South... Read more
Christopher Newport Christopher Newport
Christopher Newport 1565?-1617, English mariner, commander of early voyages to Virginia. He commanded a privateering expedition to the West Indies (1592) that returned to England with the Spanish vessel Madre de Dios, the richest prize ever taken by the Elizabethan privateers. He was employed by... Read more

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