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Berry Brothers (from the article "tap dance") Because this was an era when tap dancing was a common skill among performers, a ... Berry, Bill (from the article "R.E.M.") ...Mike Mills (b. December 17, 1958Orange, California), and Bill Berry (b. July 31, 1958Duluth, Minnesota). Berry, Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de French prince whose murder by the fanatic Louvel marked a turning point in the history ... [1 Related Articles] Berry, Chuck singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the most popular and influential performers in ... [2 Related Articles] Berry, Clifford E. (from the article "computer") ...(Atanasoff also claimed to have invented the term analog computer to describe machines such as ... Berry, George David Wharton (from the article "logic, history of") ...of "natural deduction," which used only rules of inference; it originated in a suggestion by ... Berry, Halle American film actress, the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress. ... 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Bersianik, Louky (from the article "Canadian literature") ...for Odile"]), and Yolande Villemaire (La Vie en prose [1980; "Life in Prose"]). In her ... Berson, Solomon A. (from the article "Yalow, Rosalyn S.") With a colleague, the American physician Solomon A. Berson, Yalow began using radioactive isotopes to ... Bersuire, Pierre (from the article "France") ...arts of furnishings and manuscripts exploited the Gothic tendencies to articulation and grace. The evocation ... Bert, Paul French physiologist, politician, and diplomat, founder of modern aerospace medicine, whose research into the effects ... [3 Related Articles] Berta languages group of languages that form a part of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Some 125,000 Berta ... [1 Related Articles] Bertalanffy, Ludwig von (from the article "political science") Systems analysis, which was influenced by the Austrian Canadian biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy and the ... 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