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William Frederick Cody
William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) Sources S COUT AND SHOWMAN Varied Career.William Frederick Cody, known as “Buffalo Bill,” was born in LeClaire, Iowa, but moved with his family to the Kansas Territory in 1854. He was a Pony Express rider (1860), ... Read more |
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Count Basie
Count Basie (William Basie) , 1904-84, American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, b. Red Bank, N.J. After working in dance halls and vaudeville in New York City, Basie moved to Kansas City, a major jazz center. There he joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, moving to Bennie Morton's band... Read more |
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Neosho
Neosho , river, c.460 mi (740 km) long, rising in E central Kansas and flowing southeast into NE Okla. (where it is generally known as the Grand River) then south to join the Arkansas River near Muskogee, Okla. Pensacola Dam (which impounds the huge Lake of the Cherokees) and Fort Gibson dam and... Read more |
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Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas , 1818-83, chief of ordnance in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, b. Dauphin co., Pa.; father of William Crawford Gorgas. He was commissioned in the ordnance corps and served in the Mexican War. In Apr., 1861, he resigned his Union commission and was appointed major... Read more |
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Harper
Harper, Liberia, USA 1. Liberia: settled c.1833 by a group of black American slaves who had been freed and supported by the Maryland Colonization Society. The colony was named Cape Palmas. After some turmoil with the local Grebo people in 1857, it applied to join Liberia and was renamed Harper... Read more |
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Humphreys Executor v. United States
Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), argued 1 May 1935, decided 27 May 1935 by vote of 9 to 0; Sutherland for the Court. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt removed a conservative member of the Federal Trade Commission, William E. Humphrey. Humphrey contested his... Read more |
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insulation
insulation , use of materials or devices to inhibit or prevent the conduction of heat or of electricity. Common heat insulators are, fur, feathers, fiberglass, cellulose fibers, stone, wood, and wool; all are poor conductors of heat. The use of asbestos , formerly a common insulating material,... Read more |
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