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Paul Berg
Paul Berg 1926-, American biologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Western Reserve Univ., 1952. A professor at Washington Univ. at St. Louis and Stanford Univ., he shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger ) for his work with recombinant DNA. Berg developed... Read more |
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Patty Berg
BERG, PATRICIA "PATTY" 1918- G OLFER Young Athlete One of the leading woman golfers from the 1940s through the 1960s, Patty Berg developed professional women's golfĂn the United States. Berg grew up in Minneapolis and was athletic as a young girl, playing sandlot... Read more |
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Koo Koo Roo Inc
Koo Koo Roo, Inc. 11075 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 225Los Angeles, California 90025U.S.A.(310) 479-2080Fax: (310) 479-8843Web site: http://www.kookooroo.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1987Employees: 3,100Sales: $68.30 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbols: KKROSICs: 5812... Read more |
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Berg
Berg , former duchy, W Germany, along the right bank of the Rhine River between the Ruhr and Sieg rivers. Düsseldorf was its chief city. A county in the 12th cent., Berg passed (1348) to the dukes of Jülich and in 1380 was made a duchy. In 1423 the duchies of Berg and Jülich were... Read more |
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iceberg
iceberg mass of ice that has become detached, or calved, from the edge of an ice sheet or glacier and is floating on the ocean. Because ice is slightly less dense than water about one ninth of the total mass of a berg projects above the water. Greenland and other N Atlantic icebergs are usually... Read more |
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne 1934-, American mezzo-soprano, b. Bradford, Pa. She established herself with her characterization of Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the San Francisco Opera in 1960. In 1970 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera singing Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma. Horne is noted for the... Read more |
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom 1930-, American literary critic and scholar, b. New York City. The son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Russia, educated at Cornell (B.A., 1951) and Yale Univ. (Ph.D., 1955), the distinguished critic, author, and academic is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale and Berg Professor... Read more |
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Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn , 1882-1974, American film producer, b. Warsaw, Poland. Goldwyn arrived in the United States in 1896, and with Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille he organized the Jesse Lasky Feature Photoplay Company, coproducing The Squaw Man (1913). In 1916 he formed the Goldwyn Pictures... Read more |
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Dusseldorf
Düsseldorf , city (1994 pop. 574,600), capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Düssel rivers. It is a major industrial, financial, and commercial center; a busy inland port; and an important rail junction. It has three harbors on the Rhine and one... Read more |
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The Family
The Family Founded in 1968 as Teens for Christ, the group now known as The Family adopted the name Children of God (COG), the name by which it became well-known, the following year. COG grew up around David Berg, a former minister in the Christian and Missionary Alliance. With several of his... Read more |
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