1) Waltham. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Waltham, (wol´tham, -thm) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown...
2) Waltham Forest. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Waltham Forest, (wol´tm, -thm) (KEY) , outer borough (1991 pop. 203,400) of Greater London, SE England. The borough, covering 15 sq mi (40 sq km), is primarily residential....
3) Waltham Holy Cross. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Waltham Holy Cross, town (1981 pop. 19,432), Essex, SE England. The abbey there, the Norman nave of which is used as a parish church, was built in 1030 to contain...
4) Brandeis University. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Brandeis University, at Waltham, Mass.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1948. Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university...
5) Lyman, Theodore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lyman, Theodore, 1833-97, American naturalist, b. Waltham, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1855, and Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1858. He was in the Union army as...
6) Wilson, Kenneth Geddes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Wilson, Kenneth Geddes, 1936-, American physicist, b. Waltham, Mass., Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1961. A professor at Cornell Univ., Wilson was awarded...
7) Howe, Clarence Decatur. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Clarence Decatur, (hou) (KEY) , 1886-1960, Canadian civil engineer and cabinet minister, b. Waltham, Mass. He went to Canada in 1908 as professor of civil engineering...
8) Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-94, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b. Waltham, Mass. After serving in the Massachusetts legislature (1849-53),...
9) Lowell, Francis Cabot. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Nathan Appleton, and others, he formed the Boston Manufacturing Company and at Waltham, Mass., built the first factory in America to perform all the operations involved...
10) Eleanor of Castile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Stamford, Geddington, Northampton, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St. Albans, Waltham, Westcheap, and Charing-those at Geddington, Northampton, and Waltham are...
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