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Woburn, village, EnglandWoburn (w `bərn), village, Bedfordshire, S central England. It is famous for Woburn Abbey (seat of the dukes of Bedford; see Russell John Russell, 1st earl of Bedford, 1486?–1555, rose to military and diplomatic importance. He was lord high steward and lord keeper of the privy seal under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was created 1st earl of Bedford in 1550, and had a..... Click the link for more information. , family), an 18th-century mansion constructed on the site of a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1145. It contains a noteworthy art collection with many classical works brought from Rome in the 18th cent. A safari park also is there. Woburn, city, United StatesWoburn, city (1990 pop. 35,943), Middlesex co., NE Mass.; settled 1640, inc. as a city 1888. It has electrical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and leather industries, as well as greenhouses. The scientist Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count, 1753–1814, American-British scientist and administrator, b. Woburn, Mass. In 1776 he went to England, where he served (1780–81) as undersecretary of the colonies, conducting significant experiments with gunpowder in his..... Click the link for more information. ) was born there; his house is now a museum. |
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| Woburn, MA 01801-2041, Butterworth-Heinemann Inc, 2001, paperback, 156 pp, $35. But in reality, writes the Globe's Beam, "Everyone familiar with the Woburn trial knows that Schlichtmann had a terribly weak case. Jonathan Harr's 1995 book about the lawsuit over the leukemia deaths of Woburn children is playing an extraordinary role in what some legal educators describe as a movement to modernize the training of lawyers in America. |
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