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Teller, Henry Moore

(Encyclopedia) Teller, Henry Moore, 1830–1914, American statesman, b. Allegany co., N.Y. A lawyer, he practiced in Colorado after 1861. He commanded a militia district in the Civil War period. When…

Teller, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Teller, Edward, 1908–2003, American physicist, b. Budapest, Hungary, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1930, where he studied under Werner Heisenberg. Fleeing the Nazis, he came to the United…

George Miles CHILCOTT, Congress, CO (1828-1891)

Senate Years of Service: 1882-1883 Party: Republican CHILCOTT George Miles , a Delegate from the Territory of Colorado and a Senator from Colorado; born near Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pa.,…

Brewer's: Tellers of the Exchequer

A corruption of talliers—i.e. tally-men, whose duty it was to compare the tallies, receive money payable into the Exchequer, give receipts, and pay what was due according to the tallies.…

Teller County, CO Census Data

Colorado Teller County, Colorado People QuickFactsTeller CountyColoradoPopulation, 2005 estimate 21,9184,665,177Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 6.6%8.4%2Population,…

Coverdale, Miles

(Encyclopedia) Coverdale, Miles, 1488–1569, b. Yorkshire. English translator of the Bible, educated at Cambridge. Coverdale was ordained (1514) and entered the house of Augustinian friars at…

Davis, Miles

(Encyclopedia) Davis, Miles, 1926–91, American jazz musician, b. Alton, Ill. Rising to prominence with the birth of modern jazz in the mid-1940s, when he was a sideman in Charlie Parker's bop quintet…

Standish, Miles

(Encyclopedia) Standish, Miles or Myles, c.1584–1656, American colonist, b. England. After serving as a soldier for a number of years, Standish accompanied the Pilgrims to America on the Mayflower (…

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

by W. B. Yeats This BookBelief and UnbeliefA Teller of Tales Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-…

Edward Teller 2003 Deaths

Edward TellerAge: 95 Hungarian-born atomic physicist who helped to establish the nuclear era with his advocacy for and work on the atomic bomb and later the hydrogen bomb. He was widely…