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Schwäbisch Hall

(Encyclopedia) Schwäbisch HallSchwäbisch Hallshvĕbˈĭsh häl [key] or Hall, city (1994 pop. 33,892), Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on the Kocher River. It is a rail junction and has manufactures in…

Brown, Michael Stuart

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Michael Stuart, 1941–, American molecular geneticist, b. New York City, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966. He worked (1968–71) as a researcher at the National Institutes of…

Bishop, John Michael

(Encyclopedia) Bishop, John Michael, 1936–, American biologist, b. York, Penn., M.D. Harvard, 1962. He worked (1964–68) as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., before…

Byrne, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Byrne, Jane, 1934–2014, American politician, b. Chicago as Margaret Jane Burke. She was Chicago's consumer sales commissioner (1968–77) under Mayor Richard Daley before she became the…

Rep. Michael Forbes, 1999 News

47, Congressman from New York, defected from the Republican party in July and became a Democrat. Forbes said the Republican party “has become an angry, narrow-minded, intolerant and uncaring…

Michael J. Fox, 2000 News

actor, announced in Jan. that he planned to leave his hit show, Spin City, after the 1999–2000 season to help find a cure for Parkinson's disease, with which he was diagnosed in 1991. Just…

Edward Michael Egan, 2000 News

was named archbishop of New York by the Vatican in May, succeeding Cardinal John O'Connor, who died earlier in the month. The bishop will preside over a diocese of 2.4 million Roman…

Michael J. Blassie, 1998 News

Air Force lieutenant who was killed when his plane was shot down in South Vietnam in 1972, was identified in May as the Vietnam serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in 1984…

Michael ARCURI, Congress, NY (1959)

ARCURI Michael , a Representative from New York; born in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., June 11, 1959; graduated from T.R. Proctor High School, Utica, N.Y.; B.A., State University of New York, Albany…