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Tangier, island, United States
(Encyclopedia) Tangier, island, E Va., in S Chesapeake Bay. Capt. John Smith first visited the island in 1608, and in 1620 settlers arrived from Cornwall, England. Isolated from the mainland, the…Hampshire College
(Encyclopedia) Hampshire College, at Amherst, Mass.; coeducational; opened 1970. The emphasis of the academic program is on the individual needs of the students. Hampshire participates in a…Ladysmith
(Encyclopedia) Ladysmith, town, part and seat of Emnambithi-Ladysmith local municipality, KwaZulu-Natal prov., E South Africa. The town has railroad yards and food-processing, textile, and tire…Broecker, Wallace Smith
(Encyclopedia) Broecker, Wallace SmithBroecker, Wallace Smithbrōkˈər [key], 1931–2019, American geophysicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Columbia, 1958. He was a member of Columbia's faculty from 1959. In the…Winter, Sir Gregory Paul
(Encyclopedia) Winter, Sir Gregory Paul, 1951–, British biochemist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1976. He has spent most of his career as a researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England…Smith, Samuel Francis
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn “America,” written while he was a student at Andover…J. Russell Smith Biography
J. Russell Smith (Joseph Russell Smith) economist, scholar, geographerBorn: 1874Birthplace: near Lincoln, Va. Having studied and taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and its…W. H. Smith Biography
W. H. Smith(William Henry Smith, Jr.)newsagent, bookseller, statesman Born: 1825Birthplace: London, England He entered the family's bookselling business, becoming his father's partner in 1846…William Henry Smith Biography
William Henry SmithBritish newsagentBorn: 1792 He got his start selling newspapers in his father's business in 1812 with his brother Henry Edward. They moved beyond their father's Strand shop…Patricia Smith, 1998 News
longtime columnist for the Boston Globe, resigned in August while serving a two-month suspension following accusations that he had fabricated sources and facts and had stolen and altered…Trending
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