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(Encyclopedia)Saint Mary's Island: see Banjul, Gambia. ...Murfree, Mary Noailles
(Encyclopedia)Murfree, Mary Noailles: see Craddock, Charles Egbert. ...Special Olympics
(Encyclopedia)Special Olympics: see Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy. ...Casket Letters
(Encyclopedia)Casket Letters: see Mary Queen of Scots. ...gaucho
(Encyclopedia)gaucho gouˈchō [key], cowboy of the Argentine and Uruguayan pampas (grasslands). The typical gaucho, a familiar figure in the 18th and 19th cent., was a daring, skillful horseman and plainsman. As f...Morris, Mary Philipse
(Encyclopedia)Morris, Mary Philipse: see under Morris, Roger. ...Evans, Mary Ann
(Encyclopedia)Evans, Mary Ann or Marian: see Eliot, George. ...Clarke, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden
(Encyclopedia)Clarke, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden: see under Clarke, Charles Cowden. ...Nexø, Martin Andersen
(Encyclopedia)Nexø, Martin Andersen märˈtēn änˈdərsĕn nĕksö [key], 1869–1954, Danish novelist. Born one of 11 children in a Copenhagen slum, he spent his impoverished childhood largely on the island of ...Charcot, Jean Martin
(Encyclopedia)Charcot, Jean Martin zhäN märtăNˈ shärkōˈ [key], 1825–93, French neurologist. At the Salpêtrière in Paris he developed the greatest clinic of his time for diseases of the nervous system. He...Browse by Subject
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