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March 2003

WorldIraq Begins to Destroy Missiles (March 1): Reluctantly starts dismantling its Al Samoud missiles, as ordered by UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix.September 11 Suspect Arrested (March…

May Current Events 2023: Disaster News

Top of Page World News | U.S. News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…

figwort

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Figwort, Scrophularia lanceolata figwort, common name for some members of the Scrophulariaceae, a family comprising chiefly herbs and small shrubs and distributed widely over…

Freshwater Fish

SpeciesLbs-OzWhere CaughtDateAnglerBarramundi83-7N. Queensland, AustraliaSept. 23, 1999David PowellBass, Guadalupe3-11Lake Travis, TXSept. 25, 1983Allen Christenson Jr.Bass, largemouth22-…

Lights! Camera! <i>Disaster!</i>

The greatest disaster films of all time by Beth Rowen Related Links DisastersDisaster QuizShips and ShipwrecksThe disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 33

Part 33Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at, What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass, What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed, And again as I walk'd the beach under…

Canada

(Encyclopedia) CE5 CE5 Canada Canada kănˈədə [key], independent nation (2020 est. pop. 37,742,154), 3,851,787 sq…

127th KENTUCKY DERBY

127th KENTUCKY DERBY Grade I for three-year-olds; 8th race at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Date—May 5, 2001; Distance—11/4 miles; Stakes Purse—$1,112,000 ($812,000 to winner; $170,000 for…

Formidable Fungus

According to recent research by archaeologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the well-dressed Ice Age woman's outfit doesn't resemble anything like the crude hide and fur…