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Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth district (1991 pop. 93,600), Leicestershire, central England. Hosiery and shoes are the chief manufactures. Other industries are dyeing and engineering.... Read more |
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Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett , 1817-93, English educator and Greek scholar, b. London. Jowett was a Church of England clergyman, master of Balliol College, Oxford (1870-93), and vice chancellor of Oxford. His influence on his pupils was profound. Jowett's translation of the dialogues of Plato (1871) is an... Read more |
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Baudouin
Baudouin , 1930-93, king of the Belgians (1951-93), son of Leopold III . He joined his father in exile (1945-50) in Switzerland. After their return to Belgium his father's unpopularity led to Baudouin's appointment (1950) as regent, and on Leopold's abdication (1951) Baudouin ascended the throne.... Read more |
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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess , 1917-93, English novelist, b. Manchester as John Anthony Burgess Wilson, grad. Manchester Univ., 1940. He taught school in England and in East Asia and pursued an early interest in music. His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have... Read more |
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Horatio Bridge
Bridge, Horatio (1806–93), classmate and friend of Hawthorne at Bowdoin, was the author of Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1893). His Journal of an African Cruiser (1845), based on his manuscript notes as a naval officer, was frequently attributed to Hawthorne, its editor.... Read more |
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G.I.E. Airbus Industrie
G.I.E. Airbus Industrie 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte31707 Blagnac CedexFrance(61) 93 34 33Fax: (61) 93 49 55 Private Consortium Incorporated: December 1970Employees: 1,300Sales: $8.56 billionSICs: 3720 Aircraft & Parts G.I.E. Airbus Industrie is a consortium of European aircraft... Read more |
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Hua Guofeng
Hua Guofeng or Hua Kuo-feng , 1920-2008, Chinese Communist leader. He was relatively unknown until he became minister of public security and deputy premier in 1975. As Mao Zedong 's designated heir, he became premier following Zhou Enlai 's death (Jan., 1976) and chairman of the Chinese... Read more |
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Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman 1721-93, American political leader, b. Newton, Mass. Sherman helped to draft and signed the Declaration of Independence. He was long a member (1774-81, 1783-84) of the Continental Congress, helped to draw up the Articles of Confederation, and after serving as a member of the... Read more |
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Agricola
Agricola (Cneius Julius Agricola) , c.AD 40-AD 93, Roman general, conqueror of Britain. After a distinguished military and political career (partly in Britain), he was made consul (AD 77) and was governor (AD 78?-AD 85?) of Britain. He pacified most of the island, conquering North Wales and... Read more |
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Arecibo
Arecibo , city (1990 pop. 93,385), N Puerto Rico, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Arecibo. It has rum distilleries and is the commercial and industrial center of a region that produces coffee, tobacco, sugarcane, and pineapples. An important radio-astronomy... Read more |
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China's Deng is dead at 92 Practical ruler pushed economic growth, business
...news agency, said he was 93, although the birth date...announced that President Jiang Zemin would head Deng...successor, President Jiang, who is also Communist...two years to ease out Hua Guofeng, the hand-picked...officials, President ... |