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Crestwood

(Encyclopedia) Crestwood, city (2020 pop. 11,808), St. Louis co., E central Mo., a suburb of St. Louis; inc. as a city 1949. Located in a truck-farming…

Osborne, Thomas Burr

(Encyclopedia) Osborne, Thomas Burr, 1859–1929, American chemist, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale, 1881. From 1886 he was with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. An authority on…

May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough

(Encyclopedia) May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough, 1815–86, English constitutional jurist and historian. A period of long service to Parliament, including his tenure (1871–86) as clerk of the…

Croker, Thomas Crofton

(Encyclopedia) Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854, Irish antiquary, b. Cork. One of the first to collect Irish folklore, he compiled Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825–28),…

Campbell, Thomas, Scottish poet

(Encyclopedia) Campbell, Thomas, 1777–1844, Scottish poet. He is best known for his war poems “Hohenlinden,” “The Battle of the Baltic,” and “Ye Mariners of England.” Among his other volumes of…

Rugby, town, England

(Encyclopedia) Rugby, town (1991 pop. 59,039), Warwickshire, central England. An important railroad junction and engineering center, Rugby is the seat of one of England's most esteemed public schools…

Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st earl of, 1561–1626, English nobleman; son of the 4th duke of Norfolk. He was attainted at the time of his father's execution (1572), but his rights were…

Rhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia) Rhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st ViscountRhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscountrŏnˈdə [key], 1856–1918, British industrialist and public official. He entered his father's coal…

Kuhn, Thomas Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, 1922–96, American philosopher and historian of science, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. He trained as a physicist at Harvard (Ph.D. 1949), where he taught the history of…