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| Benjamin Wilkes |
Benjamin Wilkes was a London artist and naturalist.His birth and death dates are not known. (references) |
| Charles Wilkes |
United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Charles Wilkes |
Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 - February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. He is particularly noted for his 1838-1842 Pacific expedition as well as for his role in the Trent Affair during the Civil War. (references) |
| Del Wilkes |
Del Wilkes was a professional wrestler best known as The Patriot. (references) |
| Faas Wilkes |
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (born October 13, 1923 in Rotterdam) is a former Dutch football (soccer) player. (references) |
| Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College is a branch of FAU, opened in 1999. Claiming to be the first honors college built from the ground up, Wilkes Honors College strives to be the flagship for Honors Colleges throughout the country. (references) |
| Jamaal Wilkes |
Jamaal Abdul-Lateef Wilkes (born Jackson Keith Wilkes on June 2, 1953 in Berkeley, California) was a National Basketball Association player who played the small forward position and won four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors. (references) |
| John Wilkes |
English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Kathy Wilkes |
Kathleen Wilkes ( June 23, 1946-August 21, 2003) was a philosopher and academic who played an important part in rebuilding the education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. (references) |
| Maurice Vincent Wilkes |
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing. (references) |
| USS Wilkes (DD-441) |
USS Wilkes (DD-441), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the 3rd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Wilkes, who was an American naval officer and explorer. (references) |
| USS Wilkes (DD-67) |
USS Wilkes (DD-67) was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second Navy ship named for Commodore Charles Wilkes (1798-1877). She served with the United States Coast Guard as (CG-25). (references) |
| Wilkes Honors College |
Wilkes Honors College is a public, residential liberal-arts college founded in 1998 and located in Jupiter, Florida. The Honors College is a largely autonomous branch of Florida Atlantic University which is distinguished by small classes, a talented faculty, a diverse and conscientious student body and a beautiful setting in the new-urbanism community of Abacoa. Popular majors (concentrations) include psychology, biology, environmental studies, chemistry, law and society, literature, anthropology, mathematics, and political science. (references) |
| Wilkes Land |
A coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Wilkes Land |
Wilkes Land is the largest district of the Australian Antarctic Territory in Eastern Antarctica, fronting on the southern Indian Ocean between Queen Mary Coast and Adelie Land, extending from from Cape Hordern in 100°31E to Pourquoi Pas Point, in 136°11E. The region extends as a sector about 2600 km towards the South Pole, with an estimated land area of 2,600,000 km2, mostly glaciated. (references) |
| Wilkes University |
Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It is home to more than 2,200 undergraduates and 400 graduates. Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and became an independent institution in 1940, naming itself Wilkes College, after English colonial politician John Wilkes. The school was granted university status in 1990. (references) |
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