Richard de Clare, 7th earl of Gloucester was the most powerful English noble of his time. He held estates in more than 20 English counties, including the lordship of Tewkesbury, wealthy manors in Gloucester, and the great marcher lordship of Glamorgan. He himself acquired the Kilkenny estates in

Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke was an Anglo-Norman lord whose invasion of Ireland in 1170 initiated the opening phase of the English conquest. The son of Gilbert FitzGilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, he succeeded to his father’s estates in southern Wales in 1148/49. Pembroke had evidently

Claremont, city, Sullivan county, western New Hampshire, U.S., on the Sugar River near its junction with the Connecticut River. Settled in 1762, Claremont was organized as a town in 1764 and was probably named for the duke of Newcastle’s country estate in England. Waterpower for early industry was

Claremont, city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Claremont lies in the Pomona Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, adjacent to Pomona and 30 miles (50 km) east of Los Angeles. The Cahuilla Indians were the area’s first inhabitants, and Spanish settlers later built a

Claremont Colleges, consortium of private liberal arts colleges and graduate institutions in Claremont, California, U.S. The consortium comprises five undergraduate schools (Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College) and two graduate schools

Claremont Colleges: …and two graduate schools (Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences). The campuses are adjacent to one another, and many facilities are shared, including the consortium’s main library, the Honnold/Mudd Library, which houses nearly two million volumes. The idea of creating a cluster of…

Claremont Colleges: (Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College) and two graduate schools (Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences). The campuses are adjacent to one another, and many facilities are shared, including the consortium’s main library, the Honnold/Mudd Library,…

Elmbridge: …Sandown Park racecourse (1875) and Claremont Park, rebuilt by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown in the Palladian style for Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, the first British administrator of Bengal, India. There is some light engineering. A large aircraft works at Brooklands closed in the 1980s. Area 37 square miles…

Marvel Comics: The Marvel universe: Writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne began a long collaboration on The Uncanny X-Men in 1975. The pair revitalized the flagging series with characters such as Wolverine and complex story arcs that soon made the X-Men franchise one of Marvel’s best sellers.

Claremore, city, seat (1907) of Rogers county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., northeast of Tulsa. In 1880 John Bullette, a Delaware Indian, settled on the site, which he called Claremore for an Osage chief whose tribe once lived there. In 1882 it was moved from the banks of the Verdigris River to its

clarence, a horse-drawn, four-wheeled coupé that was named in honour of the Duke of Clarence and first introduced in 1840 in London. The body held two seats facing one another and could transport four people in comfort. The carriage was suspended most often on large elliptic springs between two

Five Percent Nation: …American revisionist movement, led by Clarence 13X, which split from the Nation of Islam in 1963. The movement rejected being called a religion, preferring instead to be known as a culture and way of life. Its teachings are referred to as “Supreme Mathematics.”

Chicago: City layout: …of the world’s largest fountains—Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain (dedicated 1927), which graces Grant Park just east of downtown. Beginning in the 1960s, Chicago acquired contemporary sculptures by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Richard Hunt, and others. The most famous is perhaps the Pablo Picasso

Clarence River, river in eastern South Island, New Zealand. Rising on the eastern slopes of the Spenser Mountains, it flows south, then northeast between the Inland and Seaward Kaikōura ranges. Cutting eastward by a gorge 7 miles (11 km) long through the Seaward Kaikōura Range, the river flows

Clarence River, coastal river, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, rising in the McPherson Range near the Queensland border, flowing south and northeast for 245 mi (394 km), and emptying into the Pacific 40 mi below Grafton. Its chief tributaries are the Timbarra, Mitchell, and Orara.

George Plantagenet, duke of Clarence was an English nobleman who engaged in several major conspiracies against his brother King Edward IV (ruled 1461–70 and 1471–83). He was the younger son of Richard, duke of York, whose struggle to gain power precipitated the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between

Lionel of Antwerp, duke of Clarence was the second surviving son of King Edward III of England and ancestor of Edward IV. Before he was four years of age Lionel was betrothed to Elizabeth (d. 1363), daughter and heiress of William de Burgh, earl of Ulster (d. 1333), and he entered nominally into

Thomas Plantagenet, duke of Clarence was the Duke of Clarence and the second son of Henry IV of England and aide to his elder brother, Henry V. He twice visited Ireland, where he was nominally lord lieutenant, 1401–13. For a short time, in 1412, he replaced his elder brother, afterward King Henry

William IV was the king of Great Britain and Ireland and king of Hanover from June 26, 1830. Personally opposed to parliamentary reform, he grudgingly accepted the epochal Reform Act of 1832, which, by transferring representation from depopulated “rotten boroughs” to industrialized districts,

Clarendon, county, central South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a low-lying region on the Coastal Plain that includes large areas of swampland. Lake Marion, formed by the Santee Dam on the Santee River, constitutes the western and southern border, and the county is also drained by the Black River.

Clarendon Code, (1661–65), four acts passed in England during the ministry of Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, designed to cripple the power of the Nonconformists, or Dissenters. The Corporation Act (1661) forbade municipal office to those not taking the sacraments at a parish church; the Act of

Assize of Clarendon, (1166), a series of ordinances initiated by King Henry II of England in a convocation of lords at the royal hunting lodge of Clarendon. In an attempt to improve procedures in criminal law, it established the grand, or presenting, jury (consisting of 12 men in each hundred and 4

Constitutions of Clarendon, 16 articles issued in January 1164 by King Henry II defining church–state relations in England. Designed to restrict ecclesiastical privileges and curb the power of the church courts, the constitutions provoked the famous quarrel between Henry and his archbishop of

United Kingdom: Struggle with Thomas Becket: …reached a crisis at the Council of Clarendon in 1164. In the Constitutions of Clarendon Henry tried to set down in writing the ancient customs of the land. The most controversial issue proved to be that of jurisdiction over “criminous clerks” (clerics who had committed crimes); the king demanded that…

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon was an English statesman and historian, minister to Charles I and Charles II and author of the History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Edward Hyde was the eldest surviving son of Henry Hyde of Dinton, Wiltshire. He was educated at Magdalen Hall,

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon was an English statesman and historian, minister to Charles I and Charles II and author of the History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Edward Hyde was the eldest surviving son of Henry Hyde of Dinton, Wiltshire. He was educated at Magdalen Hall,

George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of Clarendon was a British foreign secretary under four prime ministers at various times from 1853, including the Crimean War period; he was known as “the great Lord Clarendon.” After serving as a customs commissioner in Dublin and Paris, Villiers was

Henry Hyde, 2nd earl of Clarendon was an English statesman, the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Clarendon and a Royalist who opposed the accession of William and Mary. As Viscount Cornbury he became a member of Parliament in 1661 and, in 1674, succeeded to the earldom on his father’s death. James II

Clarendonian Stage, lowermost and oldest major division of continental rocks and time of the Pliocene Epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) in North America. The Clarendonian Stage, which follows the Barstovian Stage of the preceding Miocene Epoch and precedes the Hemphillian Stage, was

Bordeaux wine, any of numerous wines of the region surrounding the city of Bordeaux, France. Bordeaux has a long history in wine culture; like Burgundy and the Rhine region, it was known in Roman times. During the English occupation of Bordeaux, a charter was granted, first by Richard I and second

hedgehog cactus: The claret cup (E. triglochidiatus) ranges from north of Mexico City to northern Utah and southern Colorado.

British Open: History: …now commonly known as the Claret Jug. In 1892 the Open became a 72-hole event (four rounds of 18 holes), and in 1898 a cut (reduction of the field) was introduced after the first two rounds of play.

Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari was an Italian composer whose vocal music was admired by Luigi Cherubini, G.F. Handel, and Charles Avison. A pupil of G.P. Colonna at Bologna, Clari held positions as chapelmaster in Bologna, Pistoia, and Pisa. He was mainly known for his vocal duets and trios with basso

Claros: Inscriptions concerning the Clarian oracle, which was especially celebrated during Roman times, have been found as far away as Britain.

walking catfish, Species (Clarias batrachus) of Asian and African catfish that can progress remarkable distances over dry land. It uses its pectoral-fin spines as anchors to prevent jackknifing as its body musculature produces snakelike movements. Treelike respiratory structures extending above the

Jorge Barbosa: …founders of the literary journal Claridade (“Clarity”) in the 1930s, which marked the beginning of modern Cape Verdean literature. His poetry was published as Arquipélago (1935), Ambiente (1941; “The Circle”), and Caderno de um Ilhéu (1956; “An Islander’s Notebook”).

fruit processing: Clarification: If the juice is to be clarified further or concentrated after extraction, treatment with pectinase may be required. The juice is monitored for pectin content using a qualitative pectin check, consisting of combining one part juice with two parts ethanol. If a gel…

ostariophysan: Annotated classification: Family Clariidae (air-breathing catfishes) Long dorsal and anal fins without spines; adipose fin usually lacking. Treelike air-breathing organ. Food fishes. Size to 130 cm (51 inches). About 14 genera, about 90 species. The similar family Heteropneustidae has long, hollow air sacs. Asia, Africa; widely introduced elsewhere. Family…

Leopoldo Alas was a novelist, journalist, and the most influential literary critic in late 19th-century Spain. His biting and often-bellicose articles, sometimes called paliques (“chitchat”), and his advocacy of liberalism, anticlericalism, and literary naturalism not only made him Spain’s most

clarinet, single-reed woodwind instrument used orchestrally and in military and brass bands and possessing a distinguished solo repertory. It is usually made of African blackwood and has a cylindrical bore of about 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) terminating in a flared bell. All-metal instruments are made but

Clarinet Concerto in A, K 622, three-movement concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra (two flutes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings, including violins, viola, cello, and double bass) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that blends gently lyrical passages with those of demanding virtuosity to create

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581, quintet in four movements for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed on September 29, 1789. The work was written as a showpiece for Mozart’s friend and fellow Freemason virtuoso clarinetist Anton Stadler, but it found an

clarinet, single-reed woodwind instrument used orchestrally and in military and brass bands and possessing a distinguished solo repertory. It is usually made of African blackwood and has a cylindrical bore of about 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) terminating in a flared bell. All-metal instruments are made but

trumpet: …melodies in the higher, or clarino, register, where the natural notes form approximately a major scale.

Clarion, county, west-central Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by the Allegheny River to the southwest and Redbank Creek to the south. It comprises a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau, bisected northeast-southwest by the Clarion River. Clarion county shares Cook Forest State Park with the

trumpet: …melodies in the higher, or clarino, register, where the natural notes form approximately a major scale.

Clarion University of Pennsylvania: …institution of higher learning in Clarion, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. The university consists of colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Human Services, and Graduate Studies, as well as a School of Nursing. Clarion University offers approximately 70 baccalaureate programs…

Clarion Fracture Zone, submarine fracture zone, 3,200 miles (5,200 km) in length, defined by one of numerous transform faults traversing the northern part of the East Pacific Rise in the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It was discovered in 1949 by the U.S. Navy ship Serrano and again in 1950 by members

Clarion River, river formed at Johnsonburg, Elk county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., by the confluence of East Branch and West Branch Clarion rivers. It flows generally southwest for about 110 miles (177 km), past the towns of Ridgway and Clarion, to join the Allegheny River. The Clarion Dam

Clarion University of Pennsylvania, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Clarion, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. The university consists of colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Human Services, and

Spain: The revolt of Catalonia: …by a strong-minded cleric named Pau Claris, canon of Urgel, located west of Barcelona, who was unwilling to make concessions. In the autumn of 1640 Olivares scraped together the last available troops and sent them against the Catalan rebels. Claris countered by transferring Catalan allegiance to the king of France,…

Clarissa, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in installments in 1747–48. Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight. Written in the then fashionable epistolary

Clarissa, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in installments in 1747–48. Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight. Written in the then fashionable epistolary

Poor Clare, any member of the Franciscan Order of St. Clare, a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns founded by St. Clare of Assisi in 1212. The Poor Clares are considered the second of the three Franciscan orders. Because each convent of Poor Clares is largely autonomous, practices have varied

Aucassin et Nicolette: …esteemed to be plagiarized in Clarisse et Florent, a continuation of the 13th-century chanson de geste Huon de Bordeaux. Aucassin et Nicolette is preserved in a single manuscript, kept in France’s Bibliothèque Nationale.

Poor Clare, any member of the Franciscan Order of St. Clare, a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns founded by St. Clare of Assisi in 1212. The Poor Clares are considered the second of the three Franciscan orders. Because each convent of Poor Clares is largely autonomous, practices have varied

Karl Deisseroth: …described their next major development, CLARITY, a method born from the need to overcome the opacity of lipids in brain tissue, which caused light to scatter during microscopic visualization of neurons and thereby obscured image quality. CLARITY employed a special hydrogel (a water-based gel) that in the presence of formaldehyde…

acoustics: Acoustic criteria: Clarity, the opposite of fullness, is achieved by reducing the amplitude of the reverberant sound. Fullness generally implies a long reverberation time, while clarity implies a shorter reverberation time. A fuller sound is generally required of Romantic music or performances by larger groups, while more…

Stéphane Dion: …federal legislation known as the Clarity Act. Although Dion became popular among Canadians outside the province for his tough position on Quebec separation, he was reviled by many Québécois, who saw the Clarity Act as undermining their right to self-determination.

rationalism: Epistemological rationalism in modern philosophies: The clearness and distinctness upon which he insisted was not that of perception but of conception, the clearness with which the intellect grasps an abstract idea, such as the number three or its being greater than two.

Mari Evans: …Critical Evaluation (1984) and published Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective (2006), a collection of essays commenting on African American politics and family life.

Stéphane Dion: …federal legislation known as the Clarity Act. Although Dion became popular among Canadians outside the province for his tough position on Quebec separation, he was reviled by many Québécois, who saw the Clarity Act as undermining their right to self-determination.

Clark, county, southern tip of Nevada, U.S., wedged between California and Arizona. The county seat is Las Vegas, the internationally famous gaming and entertainment city. The broad desert valleys crisscrossed by mountains of the McCullough, Spring, Newberry, and Sheep ranges also include the

Clark Air Base, former U.S. military air base, central Luzon, Philippines. It covered an area of about 12 square miles (30 square km) and was located 48 miles (77 km) north of Manila near the foothills of the Cabusilan Mountains. It was first established as a U.S. military camp for the 5th Cavalry

Clark Atlanta University, private, historically Black university located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. It is a member of the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), a group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that also includes Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine,

battery: Other primary battery systems: …predictable standard voltage are the Clark cell (zinc–mercurous sulfate–mercury; 1.434 volts) and the Weston cell (cadmium–mercurous sulfate–mercury; 1.019 volts). Magnesium–silver chloride and magnesium–lead chloride batteries are commonly employed in undersea operations where the salt water becomes the electrolyte when the battery is submerged or in situations where low risk to…

Vancouver: It is the site of Clark College (1933) and state schools for the deaf and the blind. Gifford Pinchot National Forest is headquartered in Vancouver. The western entrance to the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area lies 30 miles (48 km) east of the city. Vancouver’s population growth between 1990…

Clark Family, American family of telescope makers and astronomers who supplied unexcelled lenses to many observatories in the United States and Europe during the heyday of the refracting telescope. Alvan Clark (b. March 8, 1804, Ashfield, Mass., U.S.—d. Aug. 19, 1887, Cambridge, Mass.) built a

Clark Air Base, former U.S. military air base, central Luzon, Philippines. It covered an area of about 12 square miles (30 square km) and was located 48 miles (77 km) north of Manila near the foothills of the Cabusilan Mountains. It was first established as a U.S. military camp for the 5th Cavalry

Clark Fork, river in western Montana and northern Idaho, U.S. Rising near Butte, Mont., it flows in an irregular course north and northwest for about 360 miles (585 km) to enter Pend Oreille Lake in northern Idaho. From this point to the Columbia River, it is called the Pend Oreille River. Major

Clark Air Base: …economic zone, known as the Clark Freeport Zone. The industrial and transportation facilities developed there attracted foreign trade and investment, thereby stimulating the economic growth of central Luzon. The base’s runways and other facilities were converted for use as an international airport.

Clark University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. The university offers some 30 undergraduate programs, as well as a number of doctoral, master’s, and dual-master’s degree programs. It operates study-abroad programs in more than 30 countries,

dibatag, (Ammodorcas clarkei), a rare member of the gazelle tribe (Antilopini, family Bovidae), indigenous to the Horn of Africa. The dibatag is sometimes mistaken for the related gerenuk. A selective browser with a narrow, pointed snout, the dibatag is long-legged and long-necked. It stands 80–88

nutcracker: Clark’s nutcracker (N. columbiana) of western North America is pale gray, with a black tail and wings that show white patches in flight. Both species live chiefly on seeds and nuts, which they often store underground for winter use. Clark’s nutcracker hides several pine seeds…

Abraham Clark was an American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Though he had little formal education, Clark became a surveyor and managed transfers of property. He had a gift for politics and served in many public offices in New Jersey, including as sheriff of Essex county. He

Adam Clark was a British civil engineer who is associated with the construction of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd) between Buda and Pest (two districts of present-day Budapest), the first permanent bridge over the Danube River in Hungary. He also designed the Buda Tunnel at the Buda

Clark Family: Alvan Clark (b. March 8, 1804, Ashfield, Mass., U.S.—d. Aug. 19, 1887, Cambridge, Mass.) built a career as a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 he became interested in optics. With his son George Bassett Clark (b. Feb. 14, 1827, Lowell,…

Clark Family: Alvan Graham Clark (b. July 10, 1832, Fall River, Mass.—d. June 9, 1897, Cambridge, Mass.), joined his father and brother in the business in the early 1850s. Recognition of the family’s superb lenses was slow to come. The discovery of two double stars by the…

Ma Barker was the matriarch of an outlaw gang of brothers and allies engaged in kidnapping and in payroll, post-office, and bank robberies in the 1920s and ’30s. The activities of the gang, which included her sons the “Bloody Barkers”—Herman (1894–1927), Arthur, known as “Doc” (1899–1939), and Fred

Caitlin Clark is one of the greatest players in the history of women’s college basketball, especially known for her scoring. As a guard for the University of Iowa in 2024, Clark became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA basketball, surpassing Pete Maravich’s record of 3,667 points. She later was

Catherine Helen Spence: Advocating for women’s right to vote and other social issues: …1872 she and fellow reformer Caroline Emily Clark founded the Boarding-Out Society, one of Australia’s first foster-care systems. Spence stayed with the organization until 1886, finding homes for orphaned and impoverished children and evolving social welfare practices. In 1886 the Boarding-Out Society was incorporated into the new State Children’s Council,…

Champ Clark was the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1911–19) who narrowly lost the presidential nomination to Woodrow Wilson at the 1912 Democratic Convention on the 46th ballot. Clark moved to Missouri in 1876 and settled at Bowling Green. He was successively a country newspaper

Joe Clark is a Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada from June 1979 to March 1980, the youngest person ever to win the post. Clark obtained a B.A. in history (1960) and an M.A. in political science (1973) from the University of Alberta and taught political science there from

economic growth: …such as the Australian economist Colin Clark, have stressed the dominance of different sectors of an economy at different stages of its development and modernization. For Clark, development is a process of successive domination by primary (agriculture), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (trade and service) production. For the American economist W.W.…

Eugene Aram: …at Knaresborough, a man named Daniel Clark, his intimate friend, after obtaining a considerable quantity of goods from tradesmen, disappeared. Suspicions of being concerned in this swindling transaction fell upon Aram. His garden was searched, and some of the goods were found there. However, because there was insufficient evidence to…

Freddie Mercury: …on the sound track of Dave Clark’s science-fiction musical Time (1986) and teamed with Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé for the semi-operatic album Barcelona (1988).

Dick Clark was an American television personality and businessman, best known for hosting American Bandstand. Clark was a disc jockey at the student-run radio station at Syracuse University (1951), and he worked at radio and television stations in Syracuse and Utica, New York, before moving in 1952

San Francisco 49ers: …from Montana to wide receiver Dwight Clark, which was immortalized as “The Catch.” The 49ers lost to the Washington Redskins in the 1984 NFC championship game, but they lost only one game the following year and returned to the Super Bowl, where they easily defeated the Miami Dolphins. In the…

Isaac Singer: …he formed a partnership with Edward Clark. By 1860 their company had become the largest producer of sewing machines in the world. Singer secured 12 additional patents for improvements to his machine.

Libertarian Party: …states, and its presidential candidate, Edward E. Clark, a California lawyer, received 921,199 votes. Although this vote represented only about 1 percent of the national total, it was enough to make the Libertarian Party the third largest political party in the United States. Libertarian candidates ran in every subsequent presidential…

Eugenie Clark was an American ichthyologist noted for her research on poisonous fishes of the tropical seas and on the behaviour of sharks. She was also an avid marine conservationist. Clark was born to an American father and a Japanese mother. Her father died when she was young, and she was

Francis Edward Clark was a Congregational churchman and writer who founded and led Christian Endeavor. Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. He was pastor of churches in Portland, Maine (1876–83), and South Boston (1883–87). In 1881 he founded the

the Byrds: ), Gene Clark (in full Harold Eugene Clark; b. November 17, 1941, Tipton, Missouri—d. May 24, 1991, Sherman Oaks, California), David Crosby (original name David Van Cortland; b. August 14, 1941, Los Angeles, California—January 18, 2023), Chris Hillman (b. December 4, 1942, Los Angeles), Michael Clarke…

George Rogers Clark was a frontier military leader in the American Revolution, whose successes were factors in the award of the Old Northwest to the United States in the Treaty of Paris, concluding the war. Trained by his grandfather, Clark engaged in surveying along the Ohio River in the

Glen Clark is a Canadian democratic socialist politician who served as the 31st premier of British Columbia (1996–99). Clark grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Vancouver. He received a B.A. in history and political science from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, and an

Glen Clark is a Canadian democratic socialist politician who served as the 31st premier of British Columbia (1996–99). Clark grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Vancouver. He received a B.A. in history and political science from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, and an

the Byrds: ), Gene Clark (in full Harold Eugene Clark; b. November 17, 1941, Tipton, Missouri—d. May 24, 1991, Sherman Oaks, California), David Crosby (original name David Van Cortland; b. August 14, 1941, Los Angeles, California—January 18, 2023), Chris Hillman (b. December 4, 1942, Los Angeles), Michael Clarke…

Helen Clark is a New Zealand politician who was prime minister (1999–2008). She was the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister immediately following an election. Clark, the oldest of four children of George and Margaret Clark, grew up on a sheep and cattle farm in Te Pahu,

Helen Clark is a New Zealand politician who was prime minister (1999–2008). She was the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister immediately following an election. Clark, the oldest of four children of George and Margaret Clark, grew up on a sheep and cattle farm in Te Pahu,

Marguerite Clark was an American actress whose tiny figure and air of sweet youthful innocence made her enormously popular and a major rival of Mary Pickford. Clark was under the guardianship of an elder sister from the age of 13. With her sister’s encouragement she sought a career on the stage.