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Northfield

(Encyclopedia) Northfield, city (1990 pop. 14,684), Rice co., SE Minn., near Minneapolis–St. Paul, on the Cannon River; inc. 1875. It is the trade center for a dairy and farming region. Manufactures…

Swampscott

(Encyclopedia) SwampscottSwampscottswŏmpˈskət [key], town (1990 pop. 13,650), Essex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, formerly an exclusive summer resort, on Massachusetts Bay; settled…

Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst

(Encyclopedia) Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst, 1802–66, American mental healer, b. Lebanon, N.H. He became interested in mesmerism and gave exhibitions of that art in New England and New Brunswick. He…

Cressy, Hugh Paulinus

(Encyclopedia) Cressy, Hugh PaulinusCressy, Hugh Paulinuskrĕˈsē [key], 1605–74, English Benedictine monk. He was educated at Oxford and converted to Roman Catholicism in Rome in 1646. His…

Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument

(Encyclopedia) Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, c.490,000 sq mi (1,260,000 sq km), central Pacific Ocean; est. 2009. The monument comprises the waters and reefs surrounding seven…

Norman Buddy Baker 2002 Deaths

Norman “Buddy” BakerAge: 84 composer who scored about 200 films, television shows, and other events for Walt Disney. Died: Sherman Oaks, Calif., July 26, 2002Buck BakerA - FJoaquín Balaguer…

Karle Wilson Baker: Good Company

Good CompanyKarle Wilson BakerTo-day I have grown taller from walking with the trees, The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line; And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a…

Constance Baker Motley 2005 Deaths

Constance Baker MotleyAge: 84 attorney who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement. Motley won nine of the ten cases she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the 1962 case in…

Brewer's: Pull Devil, Pull Baker

Let each one do the best for himself in his own line of business, but let not one man interfere in that of another. “It's all fair pulling, `pull devil, pull baker;' someone has to get the…

Baker County, FL Census Data

Florida Baker County, Florida People QuickFactsBaker CountyFloridaPopulation, 2005 estimate 24,56917,789,864Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 10.4%11.3%Population, 2000…