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Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong Anna May Wong (1907-1961) is chiefly remembered as the first actress of Asian extraction to achieve stardom as the epitome of the "Oriental temptress," so much a fixture of melodramas in the late 1920s and 1930s. Anna May Wong became America's first Asian American movie star... Read more |
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America
America [for Amerigo Vespucci ], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. In English, America and American are... Read more |
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Socialist Party of America
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Boy Scouts of America
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Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee
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gum tree
gum tree name for the eucalyptus (see myrtle ) in Australia and for several other trees, e.g., the sweet gum, of the family Hamamelidaceae ( witch hazel family), and the black gum or tupelo in North America.... Read more |
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butterwort
butterwort common name for several species of the plant genus Pinguicula of the north temperate zone and the mountains of tropical America. It is a member of the family Lentibulariaceae ( bladderwort family).... Read more |
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W. K. Kellogg
W. K. Kellogg American food industrialist Will Keith (W. K.) Kellogg (1860-1951) founded the company that bears his name after creating the world's first flaked cereal. His “Toasted Corn Flakes” laid the foundation for the later success of The Kellogg Company, which dominated the... Read more |
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Transport Corp. of America Inc
Transport Corporation of America, Inc. 1715 Yankee Doodle RoadEagan, Minnesota 55121U.S.A.Telephone: (651) 686-2500Fax: (651) 686-2551Web site: http://www.transportamerica.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1984Employees: 1,815Sales: $290.6 million (2000)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol:... Read more |
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Marcus Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Marcus 1968-PersonalBorn 1968, in England; married; children: Alice.AddressesHome—Sussex, England.CareerWriter, beginning 1994; Walker Books, London, England, sales manager. Formerly worked as a bookseller for Heffers (children's bookshop), Cambridge, England; as a sales manager for Ragged... Read more |
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