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Ross, Sir Ronald 1857-1932.
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British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for demonstrating that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.

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Ross, Nellie Tayloe 1876-1977.
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American politician who was elected (1924) to complete her deceased husband's term as governor of Wyoming (1925-1927), thereby becoming the first woman governor in the United States.

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Ross, Sir John 1777-1856.
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British naval officer and Arctic explorer whose expeditions (1818 and 1829-1833) in search of the Northwest Passage yielded important geographic information.

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Ross, John Also called Kooweskoowe. 1790-1866.
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Cherokee leader who reluctantly directed the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia to the Oklahoma Territory (1838-1839) along a route called the Trail of Tears.
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John Ross
1841 portrait of the Cherokee leader by John Rubens Smith (1775-1849)

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Ross, Sir James Clark 1800-1862.
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British polar explorer who located the north magnetic pole (1831). On an Antarctic expedition (1839-1843), he discovered Victoria Land and the Ross Sea.

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Ross, Harold Wallace 1892-1951.
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American publisher who founded and edited (1925-1951) the New Yorker magazine.

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Ross (rôs, rŏs), Betsy Griscom 1752-1836.
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American seamstress who, according to tradition, made the first American flag (June 1776) at the request of George Washington.

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Indo-European & Semitic Roots Appendices

    Thousands of entries in the dictionary include etymologies that trace their origins back to reconstructed proto-languages. You can obtain more information about these forms in our online appendices:

    Indo-European Roots

    Semitic Roots

    The Indo-European appendix covers nearly half of the Indo-European roots that have left their mark on English words. A more complete treatment of Indo-European roots and the English words derived from them is available in our Dictionary of Indo-European Roots.