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John Chipman Gray
GRAY, JOHN CHIPMAN John Chipman Gray served as a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for more than four decades. He was an expert on the law of real property, and his works are still cited as persuasive authority today. John Chipman Gray was born July 14, 1839, in Brighton, Massachusetts, son... Read more |
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Henry Gray
Gray, Henry (b. London[?], England, 1825/1827; d. London, 8/13 June 1861) anatomy, physiology. For a name as well-known as Gray Read more |
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Clerks of the Court
Clerks of the Justices are the justices' personal assistants and among the most important of the Supreme Court's support staff. The law‐clerking institution began in 1882, when Justice Horace Gray hired a recent Harvard Law School graduate. Gray had begun hiring clerks when he was chief... Read more |
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Robert Gray
Robert Gray 1755-1806, American sea captain, discoverer of the Columbia River, b. Tiverton, R.I. He probably served in the Continental navy in the American Revolution. In 1787 he and Capt. John Kendrick were sent by Boston merchants to the northwest coast of North America with two vessels, the ... Read more |
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Grays Inn
Gray's Inn one of the Inns of Court in London, originating in the late 13th century with those who came to study law under Reginald de Grey of Wilton; his manor house, just outside the City of London, became the first hostel of the society. The precise date at which the Honourable Society of Gray's... Read more |
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brant
brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. The head, neck, and tail are black, the back brownish gray, and the under parts grayish white. Eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) is... Read more |
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wolf
wolf carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis in the dog family. Once distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, wild wolves are now confined to the wilder parts of a reduced range. Three wolf species (the gray wolf, red wolf, and coyote) are generally recognized, although there is much... Read more |
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David Gray
DAVID GRAY Born: Manchester, England, 1970 Genre: Rock Best-selling album since 1990: White Ladder (2000) Hit songs since 1990: "Babylon," "Please Forgive Me," "The Other Side" After toiling in relative obscurity and slowly building a fan base over three albums during the 1990s,... Read more |
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Ramon Magsaysay
Ramón Magsaysay , 1907-57, president of the Philippines (1953-57). When the Japanese invaded the Philippines (1941), he joined the army and was commissioned a captain. A guerrilla leader throughout the Japanese occupation, he was named (1945) military governor of Zambales province by Gen.... Read more |
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