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Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant 1761-1815, English chemist. In 1796 he proved, by burning a diamond, that the diamond consists solely of carbon. In 1804 he announced his discovery of osmium and iridium.
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Miami
Miami mīăm´ē, -e . 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. The region of Greater Miami encompasses all of Dade co., including Miami, Miami Beach , Coral Gables , Hialeah , and many smaller communiti...
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James Knox Polk
James Knox Polk , 1795-1849, 11th President of the United States (1845-49), b. Mecklenburg co., N.C.
Early Career
His family moved (1806) to the Duck River valley in Tennessee and there, after graduating from the Univ. of North Carolina (1818) and studying law under Felix Grundy, he began ...
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balance of payments
balance of payments balance between all payments out of a country within a given period and all payments into the country, an outgrowth of the mercantilist theory of balance of trade . Balance of payments includes all payments between a country and its trading partners and is made up of the balanc...
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Yangon
Yangon , formerly Rangoon , city (1983 pop. 2,458,712), capital of Myanmar and of Yangon div., S central Myanmar, on the Yangon River (a mouth of the Ayeyarwady) near its entrance into the Gulf of Martaban. The largest city in Myanmar, Yangon is the transportation hub of the country and its comme...
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Rudolph William Giuliani
Rudolph William Giuliani , 1944-, American government official, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Manhattan College and studied law at New York Univ. In the Justice Dept. as associate deputy attorney general (1975-77), associate attorney general (1981-83), and U.S. attorney for New York's Southern Distr...
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X,
born Malcolm Little; later adopted the name El‐Hajj Malik El‐Shabazz (1925–1965),
African American
leader.As a thinker, activist, and especially an icon, Malcolm X was perhaps the most important black nationalist figure in postȁ...
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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 ...
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Jan Masaryk
Jan Masaryk , 1886-1948, Czechoslovak diplomat, son of Thomas G. Masaryk. He was (1925-38) Czechoslovak minister to Great Britain, and in London he became (1940) foreign minister in the Czechoslovak government in exile headed by Eduard Beneš after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Duri...
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Americana
Americana term used to describe material printed in or about the Americas, or written by Americans; usually restricted to the formative period in the history of the two continents. Thus the letter written by Columbus in 1493 in which he announces the discovery of the Indies is the earliest item. ...
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