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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...= <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see [[WP:NONFREE]] --> ...ma]], the son of Burnum Edgar Melton and Inez Parker. In 1964 he graduated from [[Birmingham Southern College]] with the B.A. degree and then proceeded to
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• Horace Everett Hooper
  ...9 – June 13, 1922) was the publisher of ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' from 1897 until his death. He moved to [[Chicago]], Illinois in 1893 to join the firm of James Clark, publishers of cheap editions. He m
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• Herman Kogan
  ...The Great EB: The Story of the Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1958). [[Category:People from Chicago, Illinois]]
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• William Benton (senator)
  ...'' (April 1, 1900 – March 18, 1973) was a [[United States|U.S.]] senator from [[Connecticut]] (1949 - 1953) and [[publisher]] of the ''[[Encyclopædia Br ...erved as the part-time [[vice president]] of the [[University of Chicago]] from 1937 to 1945. In 1944, he had entered into unsuccessful negotiations with [
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...Britannica | publisher = The [[University of Chicago Press]] | location = Chicago | id = {{LCCN|58|00|8379}}}}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia_1954" /> Its risi ...| date = 17 December 1997 | publisher = BBC News | quote = Sales plummeted from 100,000 a year to just 20,000. | accessdate = 27 March 2007}}</ref> To rema
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...[[San Mateo]]. He worked for [[Columbia University]], the [[University of Chicago]], [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], and Adler's own Institute for Philosophica === Chicago ===
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...[[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], who argued that death alone should not render people notable. [[Image:Britannica 1st ed.jpg|thumb|Title page from the first edition]]
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• Electronic health record
  ...9, 2008</ref> If savings are allocated using the current level of spending from the National Health Accounts, Medicare would receive about $23 billion of t ...price of EHR and provider uncertainty regarding the value they will derive from adoption in the form of return on investment has a significant influence on
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• Airbrush
  ...ten [[paint]] by a process of [[nebulization]]. '''Spray guns''' developed from the airbrush and are still considered a type of airbrush. ...rials company at the [[World Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], invented by [[Charles Burdick]]. This device looked like a pen and worke
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• List of foods named after people
  This is a list of '''[[food]] items named after people'''. :For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[eponym]].
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• List of eponyms of airports
  ...incoln Capital Airport]] || [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] || [[Illinois]], [[United States]] || [[Abraham Lincoln]] ...o]] || [[Suriname]] || [[Johan Adolf Pengel]], Suriname's Prime Minister from 1963 until 1969
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ==Institutions named for people associated with the institution==
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• List of American places named after people
  ...es in the [[United States|United States of America]] which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or t *[[Alberton, Montana]] &ndash; Albert J. Earling (president of the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]])
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• List of railway stations named after people
  This is a '''list of railway stations named after people'''. It details the name of the [[railway station]], its location and [[epon | [[Ogilvie Transportation Center]] || [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] || [[United States]] || [[Richard B. Ogilvie]]
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• Anacin
  ...riginally sold by The Anacin Co. ("Pharmaceutical Chemists") in [[Chicago, Illinois]], later purchased by [[American Home Products]], which manufactured Anacin ...osser Reeves]] of the [[Ted Bates (executive)|Ted Bates]] ad agency. Many people remember the commercials advertising "tension producing" situations, and th
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• Los Angeles Times bombing
  ...to bring companies to the bargaining table, not to destroy plants or kill people. Between 1906 and 1911, the Iron Workers blew up 110 iron works, although o ...ond structure next door that housed the paper's printing press. Of the 115 people still in the building, 21 died (most of them burned alive in the fire).<ref
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• Ted Kaczynski
  | birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] ...ed in a [[mail bomb]]ing spree that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others.
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...a of the deed may take many forms, but in many cases uses violence against people seen as threats to the [[working class]]. It also refers to the use of symb ...–1857), who wrote in his "Political Testament" (1857) that "ideas spring from deeds and not the other way around." [[Mikhail Bakunin]] (1814–1876), in
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• Reno Gang
  ...kison (also known as Wilkinson or Wilkerson) Reno moved to Indiana in 1813 from the [[Salt River (Kentucky)|Salt River]] region of [[Kentucky]], one of the ...y one who received an [[Military discharge#Honorable|honorable discharge]] from the army. (There is a possibility that he was not a member of the gang.)<re
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• Border Security and Terrorism
  ...nd there are still questions as to whether the United States is truly safe from another attack. ...government to secure every point through which people or goods smuggled by people may enter. Hypothetically, a terrorist hoping to smuggle a weapon of mass d
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