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Sir George Houstoun Reid
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Harry Fielding Reid
REID, HARRY FIELDING (b. Baltimore, Maryland, 18 May 1859; d. Baltimore, 18 June 1944) geophysics. Reid, who may well be said to have been the first geophysicist in the United States, was the son of Andrew Reid and of Fanny Brooks, a grandniece of George Washington. His family spent some time in... Read more |
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Sir William Reid Dick
Dick, Sir William Reid (1878–1961). British sculptor, born in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art, 1906–7, following a five-year apprenticeship to a stonemason. In 1907 he moved to London, where he lived for the rest of his life, although he maintained links with his native... Read more |
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Antonio Reid
Antonio Reid Record company executive, producer, songwriter, singer The Deele Cofounded LaFace Records Named President of Arista The Future of Arista Selected discography Sources When Antonio “LA” Reid was appointed president of Arista Records in 2000, he joined the ranks... Read more |
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Thomas Mayne Reid
Thomas Mayne Reid (Mayne Reid), 1818-83, British novelist, b. Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1840 and after various adventures in the West served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War. He returned to England and began writing adventure stories that were especially popular with boys. The... Read more |
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Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid 1837-1912, American journalist and diplomat, b. near Xenia, Ohio. His distinguished correspondence during the Civil War for the Cincinnati Gazette led Horace Greeley to make him managing editor of the New York Tribune in 1868. After Greeley's death, Reid gained financial as well... Read more |
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Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid Guitarist Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the founder of the groundbreaking African-American rock group Living Colour. But to recognize Reid solely for his Grammy Award-winning work as a rock musician would be to miss a rich and varied body of work that has extended into... Read more |
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sharecropping
sharecropping system of farm tenancy once common in some parts of the United States. In the United States the institution arose at the end of the Civil War out of the plantation system. Many planters had ample land but little money for wages. At the same time most of the former slaves were... Read more |
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Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva , fl. c.1040-80, wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia; famous for her legendary ride through the city of Coventry. She was a benefactor of several monasteries, especially that at Coventry, which she and her husband founded (1043). The legend about her, which first appears in the chronicle of ... Read more |
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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid 1710-96, Scottish philosopher. He taught at King's College, Aberdeen, and at the Univ. of Glasgow. He is known as the founder of the common-sense school of philosophy, also known as the Scottish school, a group that had considerable influence in Great Britain and the United States... Read more |
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