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| 1. | Sir Angus (Frank John⋅stone) [jon-stuhn, -suhn] , 1913–91, English writer. |
| 2. | August, 1945-2005, U.S. playwright. |
| 3. | Charles Thom⋅son Rees [tom-suhn-rees] , 1869–1959, Scottish physicist: Nobel prize 1927. |
| 4. | Edith Bolling (Galt), 1872–1961, U.S. first lady 1915–21 (second wife of Woodrow Wilson). |
| 5. | Edmund, 1895–1972, U.S. literary and social critic. |
| 6. | Ellen Louise Axson, 1860–1914, U.S. first lady 1913–14 (first wife of Woodrow Wilson). |
| 7. | Harriet, 1825–1900, U.S. novelist: first African American woman to publish a novel. |
| 8. | Henry (Jeremiah Jones Colbath or Colbaith), 1812–75, U.S. politician: vice president of the U.S. 1873–75. |
| 9. | James, 1742–98, U.S. jurist, born in Scotland: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1789–98. |
| 10. | Sir (James) Harold, 1916–95, British statesman: prime minister 1964–70, 1974–76. |
| 11. | John (“Christopher North”), 1785–1854, Scottish poet, journalist, and critic. |
| 12. | Lanford [lan-ferd] , born 1937, U.S. playwright. |
| 13. | Robert W(oodrow), born 1936, U.S. radio astronomer: Nobel prize for physics 1978. |
| 14. | Sloan, born 1920, U.S. journalist and novelist. |
| 15. | (Thomas) Woodrow, 1856–1924, 28th president of the U.S. 1913–21: Nobel peace prize 1919. |
| 16. | Mount, a mountain in SW California, near Pasadena: observatory. 5710 ft. (1740 m). |
| 17. | a city in E North Carolina. 34,424. |
| 18. | a male given name. |
Wilson, Mount
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| Wilson, Edmund Beecher 1856-1939.
American zoologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics. He researched the function, structure, and organization of cells, emphasizing their importance as the building blocks of life. He also demonstrated the significance of chromosomes, especially sex chromosomes, in heredity. |
Mount Wilson
peak (5,710 feet [1,740 metres]) in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest, southern California, U.S. It lies just northeast of Pasadena. A highway leads to the summit, an eroded plateau that is the site of a famous astronomical observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory (established 1904), built by the Carnegie Institution and now operated by the Mount Wilson Institute. The mountain was named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, who blazed a burro trail to the summit in 1864.
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