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Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald (James Ramsay McDonald), 1866-1937, British statesman, b. Scotland. The illegitimate son of a servant, he went as a young man to London, where he joined the Social Democratic Federation (1885) and the Fabian Society (1886). He became (1894) a member of the newly formed Independent ...
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Robert Stuart, 1st duke of Albany
Robert Stuart, 1st duke of Albany 1340?-1420, regent of Scotland; third son of Robert II. As earl of Fife and Monteith, he held commands under his father and more than once raided England, leading the invasion of 1388. Because of his father's old age he was given the power of government in 1389; he...
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Donald McKay
Donald McKay , 1810-80, American shipbuilder, b. Nova Scotia. He opened his own shipyard in Newburyport, Mass., in 1841, then moved to Boston in 1845. He grew celebrated as designer and builder of the largest ships of his time and sleek, swift clippers, some of the most beautiful ships ever to sail ...
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Donald Clarence Judd
Donald Clarence Judd 1928-94, American artist, b. Excelsior Springs, Mo. His sculpture, allied with the minimalist school of the late 1960s (see minimalism ; modern art ), has the appearance of industrial fabrication. He used rectangular forms fashioned from painted wood, polychrome, or steel in ...
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Don Marquis
Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis) , 1878-1937, American author, b. Walnut, Ill. In 1912 he began the humorous column "The Sun Dial" in the New York Sun and later conducted "The Lantern" in the Herald Tribune. He invented various characters of gay satire, notably "archy the co...
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Donald Baxter MacMillan
Donald Baxter MacMillan 1874-1970, American arctic explorer, b. Provincetown, Mass., grad. Bowdoin College, 1898, and studied at Harvard. After a decade of teaching, he went on the expedition (1908-9) of Robert E. Peary to the North Pole. Later (1911, 1912) he made ethnological studies among the La...
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Sir Malcolm Campbell
Sir Malcolm Campbell 1885-1949, English automobile and speedboat racer. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Campbell set many speed records for motorcycles, airplanes, automobiles, and motorboats and in 1931 was knighted for his accomplishments. Driving his famed automobile Bluebird at Bonneville F...
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge 1831-1905, American writer of children's stories, b. New York City. During her lifetime she was the acknowledged leader in the field of juvenile fiction. Her story Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865) has become a children's classic. From 1873 until her death she edited and...
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Donald John Trump
Donald John Trump 1946-, American business executive, b. New York City. After attending the Wharton business school, he joined the family real estate business. A self-promoting and flamboyant dealmaker, he was able to secure loans with minimal collateral in the free-wheeling 1980s and created an em...
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Donald Cameron of Lochiel
Donald Cameron of Lochiel , 1695?-1748, Scottish clan chieftain, known as the Gentle Lochiel; grandson of Sir Ewen Cameron . He was the first of the major chieftains to join Charles Edward Stuart , Bonnie Prince Charlie, in the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising in 1745. He was wounded in the battles ...
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