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Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is the title star of a long-running Saturday-morning cartoon of the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. A comically nervous Great Dane, Scooby spent each episode of his original series hunting…

Claiborne Pell

Name at birth: Claiborne de Borda PellClaiborne Pell, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1961 to 1997, was the sponsor of prominent laws that created federal grants for college students and special…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Story of a Mother

The Happy FamilyThe False CollarThe Story of a Mother A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die! It was so pale, the small eyes had closed…

Christiaan Barnard Biography

Christiaan Barnardpioneering heart surgeonBorn: 11/8/1922Birthplace: Beaufort West, South Africa South African heart surgeon who made medical history on Dec. 3, 1967, when he performed the…

George Irving Bell 2000 Deaths

George Irving BellAge: 73 biophysicist who founded Los Alamos' Center for Human Genome Studies in 1988 and also contributed to the Human Genome Project. He died of leukemia. Died: Los Alamos…

How do people become infected?

How do people become infected? Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces and objects contaminated by their faeces, is presently considered the main route of human infection. To date,…

2001 Golf Season

2001 Season Review: Human TigerTournament ResultsBattle at Bighorn2002 Golf SeasonGolf2000 Season

March 2017 Current Events: World News

Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the 15 world…

Keith Reemtsma 2000 Deaths

Keith ReemtsmaAge: 74 surgeon known for his pioneering work in cross-species and human transplants. In 1964 he performed the first chimpanzee-human organ transplant. The recipient of a kidney…