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Farragut, David Glasgow
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...David Glasgow Farragut (făr´əgət...frigate Essex, commanded by David Porter, his self-appointed...and a mortar flotilla under David Dixon Porter, had reached forts...to try to get by them in the dark. This action was accomplished......
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Rabe, David
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...David Rabe (rāb), 1940–, American playwright, b. Dubuque, Iowa; grad...Tomtom (1982); A Question of Mercy (1997); The Dog Problem (2000), a dark comedy; and The Black Monk (2002). He has written the screen versions of......
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Kamen, Martin David
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...Martin David Kamen (kā´mən), 1913–2002, American biochemist, b. Toronto, Canada...1955 he won a libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. He wrote Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear Age (1985)....
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von Braun, Wernher
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......Stuhlinger and F. I. Ordway, 3d (1994); biographies by H. M. David (1967), E. Bergaust (1976), R. Spangenburg and D. K...Ward (2005), and M. J. Neufeld (2007); W. Biddle, Dark Side of the Moon (2009)....
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convention
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......led to a unique feature of the American political scene: the dark horse—a candidate with little or no formal support before...party energy for the upcoming campaign.BibliographySee P. T. David et al., The Politics of National Party Conventions (rev......
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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
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......the paper's editor to commission him to go to Africa to find David Livingstone. Stanley located the great explorer on Lake Tanganyika...adventures include How I Found Livingstone (1872), Through the Dark Continent (2 vol., 1878), In Darkest Africa (2 vol......
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Spielberg, Steven
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......executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, and recording industry mogul David Geffen formed Dreamworks SKG, a movie studio and entertainment...for which he also wrote the screenplay, and portrayed another dark future in which crime is detected and stopped before it is committed......
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Martin, Steve
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......and Roxanne (1987) as well as in the despairing Pennies from Heaven (1981), the drama Grand Canyon (1991), David Mamet's dark The Spanish Prisoner (1998), and the thriller Novocaine (2001). Martin has written humorous pieces, plays......
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Saarinen, Eero
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......followed the principles of suspension-bridge construction in the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale (1958). Saarinen created soaring...reinforced concrete tower with an elegant skin of glass and dark granite. He also created many collegiate buildings, including......