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Manufacture nationale des Gobelins
Manufacture nationale des Gobelins , state-controlled tapestry manufactory in Paris. It was founded as a dye works in the mid-15th cent. by Jean Gobelin. A tapestry works started by two Flemish weavers, Marc de Comans and François de la Planche, called to France by Henri IV in 1601, was later... Read more |
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George Walker Bush
George Walker Bush 1946-, 43d president of the United States (2001-), b. New Haven, Conn. The eldest son of President George H. W. Bush , he was was raised in Texas and, like his father, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Yale, graduating in 1968. He subsequently earned a Harvard... Read more |
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Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport , town (1990 pop. 1,100), York co., S Maine, on the Atlantic coast; settled 1629, inc. 1653. The early town, called Arundel, appears in Kenneth Roberts's books; the name was changed in 1821. The town is a summer resort, especially for authors, artists, and actors. It is also the... Read more |
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Thomas Joseph Ridge
Thomas Joseph Ridge Tom Ridge (born 1946) was appointed by President George W. Bush in October 2001 to serve as assistant to the president for the hastily assembled Office of Homeland Security following the terrorist bombings of New York City's World Trade Center and other targets in September... Read more |
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John Glover Roberts Jr
John Glover Roberts, Jr. 1955-, American public official, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2005-) b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1979). He clerked (1980-81) for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist before serving in the Reagan administration as special assistant to... Read more |
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Albert Gore Jr
A LG ORE Born: March 31, 1948 Washington, D.C. American vice president, senator, and congressman Al Gore, U.S. representative, senator, and forty-fifth vice president of the United States, lost one of the closest presidential elections in... Read more |
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Laura Bush
Laura Welch Bush American first lady Laura Welch Bush (born 1946), the wife of United States President George W. Bush, has been one of the most low–key presidential wives in recent years, but supporters praise her for her quiet strength. Bush was reluctant about her husband's foray into... Read more |
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Bush Administration
Bush Administration (2001–), United States National Security Policy ¦ CARYN E. NEUMANN George W. Bush, transformed the national security system of the United States to combat the threat of global terrorism. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush faced the... Read more |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush 1924-, 41st President of the United States (1989-93), b. Milton, Mass., B.A., Yale Univ., 1948. Career in Business and Government His father, Prescott Bush, was a successful investment banker and a Republican Senator (1953-63) from Connecticut. After graduating from... Read more |
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John D. Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (born 1942) was one of the most powerful members of President George W. Bush's cabinet. Ashcroft served as a state attorney general, Missouri governor, and U.S. senator prior to becoming U.S. attorney general. His conservative social views... Read more |
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