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......important, the city's major employer is...paper products. Lawrence was founded in 1854...time after 1857. Lawrence was an important...Pottawatomie killings by John Brown. In 1863 the...settlers in Kansas. Lawrence is also the seat...contribute to Lawrence's economy. Boston......

...John Lawrence Sullivan, 1858–1918, American boxer, b. Roxbury, Mass...Ryan in nine rounds in Mississippi City, Miss. The "Great John L." met all comers. Sullivan's prowess in the ring and his swashbuckling personality won him......

......exploitation of Western lands. After Lawrence's death (1752), George inherited...his estate and took over some of Lawrence's duties as adjutant of the colony...in the expedition headed by Gen. John Forbes that took an abandoned Fort Duquesne......

......plenipotentiaries, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, acquitted themselves...draining into the St. Lawrence River, thence with the...parallel to the St. Lawrence. From there the northern...1815After Napoleon's return, his defeat......

......Beginning with Abraham Darby's bridge at Coalbrookdale in 1779...Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence at Montreal. The disadvantage...existence until 1917, when the St. Lawrence River at Quebec Bridge was built...United States is the Commodore John Barry Bridge in Chester, Penn......

...John Middleton Murry, 1889–1957, English...literary personalities, notably T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. His numerous...Woman (1931), a biography of D. H. Lawrence; William Blake (1933); and Jonathan......

......highlands dividing the St. Lawrence River tributaries and the Atlantic...commission created by Jay's Treaty (1794). However...between the Atlantic and St. Lawrence systems, the question was submitted...arbitrator, designated the St. John River as the boundary (1831......

......126 mi (203 km) long, S Ont., Canada, connecting...under the direction of Col. John By to provide access from the St. Lawrence to Lake Ontario without...American forces on the U.S. shore of the St. Lawrence. Little used as a commercial......

...John Zachary DeLorean, 1925–2005, American automobile executive...b. Detroit. Son of a Ford Motor Co. worker, he attended the Lawrence Institute of Technology (B.S. 1948) and later earned masters degrees in engineering and business......

...John Hoppner, 1758–1810, English portrait...rivaled only by that of Sir Thomas Lawrence. He painted with facility and lively...Prince of Wales, many of Hoppner's best works were hung in St. James's Palace, where they remain. Among......