Florence Matilda Read (1886 – 1973) was an American college president and academic administrator. She was president of Spelman College from 1927 to 1953...
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and Sisters Chapel, one of the main buildings on campus, was erected Florence M. Read, (1927) under whom the school established an endowment fund of over...
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Florence Nightingale OM RRC DStJ (/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing...
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suffragist Florence M. Read, college president Hercules Read (1857–1929), British archaeologist and curator at the British Museum Leonard Read (1898–1983)...
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Florence Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Firenze), formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (Italian: Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore [katteˈdraːle...
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Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track...
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(acting) Myron Winslow Adams, 1923 to 1929 John Hope, 1929 to 1936 Florence M. Read, 1936 to 1937 Rufus Early Clement, 1937 to 1967 Thomas D. Jarrett,...
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(Winter 1987-1988), pp. 46-47 A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Rufus E. Clement and Horace M. Bond" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive...
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Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 until her husband's death in...
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based in Florence include Kona Ice. Florence is well known in surrounding cities for a water tower visible from I-71/I-75 that reads "Florence Y'all"....
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College In office 1910–1927 Preceded by Harriet E. Giles Succeeded by Florence M. Read Personal details Born 1932 (1932) West Brooksville, Maine Died 1932...
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College Sarah Ann Dickey, 1869 - founder of Mount Hermon Female Seminary Florence M. Read, 1909 - former president, Spelman College Yau Tsit Law, 1916 - dean...
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Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (redirect from Bessie Florence Gibson)
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet, JP, DL (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889), was the son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second...
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1985 drama film Mask. Rocky Dennis was born in Glendora, California, to Florence "Rusty" Tullis and Roy Dennis in 1961. When he was very young, Dennis frequently...
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was spurred by Lionel Trilling's E. M. Forster: A Study, which called him "the only living novelist who can be read again and again and who, after each...
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day she would find the man of her dreams. Harding had married his wife, Florence in 1891 and was involved in a long and passionate affair with Carrie Fulton...
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Dante Alighieri (category 14th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
since, with Dante's body remaining in Ravenna. The front of his tomb in Florence reads Onorate l'altissimo poeta — which roughly translates as "Honor the most...
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Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman...
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Florence M. Rice (March 22, 1919 – March 19, 2020) was an American Harlem-based consumer activist and educator, particularly known for her work in advocating...
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heavy concentration in blue chip companies. Read was born on October 23, 1921, to George and Florence Ray Read into an indigent family that managed a farm...
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Michelangelo (redirect from M. Angelo)
architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting...
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Florence Laura Goodenough (August 6, 1886 – April 4, 1959) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child...
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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is...
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an important year of his life, Escher traveled through Italy, visiting Florence, San Gimignano, Volterra, Siena, and Ravello. In the same year, he traveled...
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Alice (American TV series) (redirect from Florence Jean Castleberry)
the greasy spoon, and fellow waitresses and friends, sassy, man-hungry Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry (Polly Holliday), and neurotic, scatterbrained Vera...
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100 metres (redirect from 100 m)
anemometer was faulty for the race in which Florence Griffith-Joyner set the official world record for the women's 100 m of 10.49 s. A 1995 report commissioned...
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Therefore, one must read Mark's post-Florentine and anti-Latin propaganda through the optic of Mark's ends. Even if Mark dissented from Florence for traditional...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (redirect from Fjodor M. Dostojewski)
Switzerland and several North Italian cities, including Turin, Livorno, and Florence. He recorded his impressions of those trips in the essay "Winter Notes...
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Florence Moltrop Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was an American social and political reformer who coined the term wage abolitionism. Her...
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Richard Nixon (redirect from Richard M Nixon)
was a champion debater and hard worker. In 1933, he was engaged to Ola Florence Welch, daughter of the Whittier police chief, but they broke up in 1935...
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