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U.S. Societies & Associations (H)

Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America (1912): 50 West 58 St., New York, N.Y. 10019. 385,000. Phone: (800) 664-5646. www.hadassah.org. Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning…

Preamble of the United Nations Charter

Preamble of the United Nations Charter The Charter of the United Nations was adopted at the San Francisco Conference of 1945. The complete text is available on the UN website, www.un.org/aboutun/…

Walt Whitman: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

Ethiopia Saluting the ColorsWho are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet? Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors…

Amsterdam (Book)

Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Doubleday At first it seems defocused, sighting too broad a spectrum of meaning. But as Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-winning novel progresses, it accumulates…

Jeffrey Dahmer

Serial killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is infamous for the grisly way he dismembered and cannibalized his many victims. Police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin arrested Dahmer on 22 July 1991 while…

The Congress of Women: Ethics of Social Life

by Mrs. Jno. R. Hanna Legal Condition of Woman in 1492-1892The Progress of Fifty YearsEthics of Social Life Mrs. Ione Theresa Hanna is a native of New York, and was born in 1837. Her…

1998 National Medal of Technology Recipients

Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Founder, President, and Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Tex., for his inspirational skill, leadership, and technical accomplishments during six…