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Buffalo, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Buffalo, city (2020 pop. 278,349), seat of Erie co., W N.Y., on Lake Erie and the Niagara and Buffalo rivers; inc. 1832. With more than…

Pontiac's Rebellion

(Encyclopedia) Pontiac's Rebellion,&sp;Pontiac's Conspiracy, or Pontiac's War, 1763–66, Native American uprising against the British just after the close of the French and Indian Wars, so called…

Major Blizzards in the U.S.

  1888 Jan. 12, Dakota and Montana territories, Minn., Nebr., Kans., and Tex.: “Schoolchildren's Blizzard” resulted in 235 deaths, many of which were children on their way home from school.…

Weather: Big-City Snows

Big-City SnowsWeatherBlowing Cold and Hot: The Big OnesWinter Gone SouthBig-City SnowsStorm of the Century?The Greatest One of AllModern Winter of Deep SnowsGalveston Storm SurgeThe Great New England…

Geology of the Grand Canyon: The Eocene.

THE CRETACEOUS.THE EOCENE.The foreground of the picture is full of strength and animation. At our feet is the brink of a precipice where the profiles descend 800 feet upon rugged sloped…

Midwestern B&Bs

Check out these B&Bs in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan Cloran Mansion Bed & Breakfast Galena, Ill. Whether…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 1

Part 1Now list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.A young man comes to me bearing a message…

Entertainment News from August 1999

2 Barry Meyer and Alan Horn are named co-chairmen of Warner Bros., replacing Terry Semel and Bob Daly, who resigned in July. Meyer, who was in charge of Warner's television division, will…

The Song of Hiawatha: Introduction

Introductory Note Introduction Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the…