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Name at birth: Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.Common is the stage name of Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., a Grammy-winning rapper who won an Oscar for co-writing "Glory" for the 2014 film Selma. He grew up in…

Common

Like Water for ChocolateJive If you watch sales figures long enough, you might start to get dizzy from the flavor-of-the-week hip-hop acts racing up the charts as quickly as they crash back…

Commons, John Rogers

(Encyclopedia) Commons, John Rogers, 1862–1945, American economist, b. Hollansburg, Ohio, grad. Oberlin, 1888. Influenced by the other social sciences, Commons tried to broaden the scope of economics…

Common Core

The debate intensifies over standards in education Related Links Common Core State Standards Initiative New Evaluations Are Raising the Stakes for Teachers School Daze: Find…

The Common Application

by Michael Pugh, FastWeb.com You've narrowed your choice of colleges down to seven different schools. Now comes the fun part: filling out seven different applications. This means entering…

Common Abbreviations

This table provides some comon abbreviations and their meanings. Notice that many abbreviations only differ by a capitalization or punctuation, which can be perplexing! This table willl ensure you…

Brewer's: Commoner

The Great Commoner. 1. Sir John Barnard, who, in 1737, proposed to reduce the interest of the national debt from 4 per cent. to 3 per cent., any creditor being at liberty to receive his…

Brewer's: Commons

To put one on short commons. To stint him, to give him scanty meals. In the University of Cambridge the food provided for each student at breakfast is called his commons; hence food in…

The Common Cold

Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. The problem. In the course of a year, individuals in the United States suffer one billion colds,…

Common Factors

Factors that two numbers have in common are called the common factors of those numbers.Example:What are the common factors of 20 and 25? The factors of 20 are 1, 2, 4, 5, and 20. The…