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Richardson, city (1990 pop. 74,840), Dallas and Collins counties, N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; founded in the 1850s, inc. as a city 1956. Richardson manufactures telecommunications equipment, medical devices, supercomputers, computer chips, and fiber optics. It is the site of the Univ. of Texas at Dallas and a Texas A&M research center. Richardson 1. Dorothy M(iller). 1873--1957, British novelist, a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness writing: author of the novel sequence Pilgrimage (14 vols, 1915--67) 2. Henry Handel. pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, 1870--1946, Australian novelist; author of the trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1917--29) 3. Sir Owen Willans. 1879--1959, British physicist; a pioneer in the study of atomic physics: Nobel prize for physics 1928 4. Sir Ralph (David). 1902--83, British stage and screen actor 5. Samuel. 1689--1761, British novelist whose psychological insight and use of the epistolary form exerted a great influence on the development of the novel. His chief novels are Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Center for the Performing Arts, a historic landmark originally built in 1847 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson, was the original home of the Century Association, a members-only club of distinguished New Yorkers, including former Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. The University maintains a campus situated in Newport s Historic Ochre Point District, and among its 26 properties are several buildings of historic value including Ochre Court, designed in the late 1880 s by Richard Morris Hunt, and the William Watts Sherman House, an 1876 design by Henry Hobson Richardson which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The firm of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott was founded in Boston in 1874 by Henry Hobson Richardson, a major early influence in American architectural design. |
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