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Encyclopedia > Lewis (disambiguation)

Lewis may refer to:

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Geography

Lewis (Leòdhas in Scottish Gaelic) or The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais), is the northern part of the largest island of the Western Isles of Scotland or Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar). ... Lewis is a town located in Essex County, New York. ... Lewis is a town located in Lewis County, New York. ... Lewis Center is a community in Delaware County, Ohio, near Columbus. ... Lewis County is a county located in the state of New York. ... Lewis Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Lewis Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Lewis Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Lewis Township, Union County, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Business

John Lewis on Oxford Street, London is the flagship department store of the John Lewis Partnership. ... One of John Lewis flagship branches in Glasgows Buchanan Galleries mall The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer, operating department stores and, through its Waitrose subsidiary, upmarket supermarkets. ... Lewis Masonic, founded in 1801, is the largest and oldest Masonic publisher in England. ... Lewiss was a department store group operating in the United Kingdom from 1856 to the 1990s. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

People

  • First name:
    • Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer
    • Lewis Hamilton (born 1985), British Formula One driver

Blake Colin Lewis (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer and beatboxer. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. ... The Narnia books “Narnia” redirects here. ... Lewis in the Berkeley Lab Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23, 1875-March 23, 1946) was a famous American physical chemist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Lewis is a surname. ... 1876 illustration of the courtroom; the central figure is usually identified as Mary Walcott Mercy Lewis was born around 1642 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut and was the servant in Thomas Putnam’s household. ... 1876 illustration of the courtroom; the central figure is usually identified as Mary Walcott The Salem witch trials, which began in 1692 (also known as the Salem witch hunt and the Salem witchcraft episode), resulted in a number of convictions and executions for witchcraft in both Salem Village and Salem... Meriwether Lewis, portrait by Charles Willson Peale Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Corps of Discovery, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. ... Morgan Lewis (b. ... Morgan Lewis (October 16, 1754– April 7, 1844) was the son of Francis Lewis. ... Captain of the Australia national rugby league football team Wally Lewis (born December 1, 1959 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is a former rugby league footballer who was one of the most pre-eminent players of the 1980s. ... Warren K. Lewis (1882-1975)[1] was an MIT professor who is considered by many to be the father of chemical engineering. ... Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996... Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) - believed to be a self-portrait Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. ... Lewis Carl Hamilton (born January 7, 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England) is a British Formula One racing driver who currently drives for the McLaren Mercedes team. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Fiction

Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis is a fictional character better known as the sidekick in the Inspector Morse crime novels by Colin Dexter and the associated television series. ... Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987–2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw. ... Lewis (known as Inspector Lewis in the United States) is a British television drama made as a spin-off from Inspector Morse. ... Lewis is Barts only African-American friend, and one of only a handful of black students at Springfield Elementary. ... The Drew Carey Show was a long-running American sitcom (set in Cleveland, Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its everyman characters and themes. ...

Other fields

Lewis (known as Inspector Lewis in the United States) is a British television drama made as a spin-off from Inspector Morse. ... Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987–2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw. ... The Masonic Square and Compasses. ... Lewis the cat. ... Lewis A Lewis is a steel lifting device used by Stonemasons to lift large stones into place with a crane, chain block or winch. ... Lewis (named after Meriwether Lewis) is an autonomous robot that performs the job of a wedding photographer: it attends social events, moves around, and takes digital photographs of people. ... In chemistry, a Lewis acid can accept a pair of electrons and form a coordinate covalent bond, after the American chemist Gilbert Lewis. ... G. N. Lewis Lewis structures, also called electron-dot structures or electron-dot diagrams, are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule, and the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule. ... Lewis and Clark The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. ... The Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era squad automatic weapon/machine gun of American design that was most widely used by the forces of the British Empire. ... Lewis University is a private Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois. ... Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. ... My Iron Lung is an EP by the band Radiohead, released in 1994 and including the song of the same name (also included on their 1995 album The Bends). ... Radiohead are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxfordshire in 1986. ... My Iron Lung is an EP by British band Radiohead, released in 1994. ...

See also


  Results from FactBites:
 
lewis - OneLook Dictionary Search (372 words)
Lewis : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
Lewis : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
Phrases that include lewis: meriwether lewis, lewis henry morgan, jerry lee lewis, lewis and clark expedition, sinclair lewis, more...
Lewis (disambiguation) - definition of Lewis (disambiguation) in Encyclopedia (144 words)
Lewis is the anglicised version of the personal forename Louis that has, through patronymics, also come to be used as a surname.
Clarence Irving Lewis, Philosopher and mathematical logician (1883 - 1964)
Lewis is the name of a robotic wedding photographer.
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