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Office of War Information

(Encyclopedia) Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. agency created (1942) during World War II to consolidate government information services. The OWI absorbed the functions of the Office of Facts…

identity theft

(Encyclopedia) identity theft, the use of one person's personal information by another to commit fraud or other crimes. The most common forms of identity theft occur when someone obtains another…

memory, in psychology

(Encyclopedia) memory, in psychology, the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has been stored. It has been hypothesized that three processes occur in remembering:…

Cominform

(Encyclopedia) CominformCominformkŏmˈĭnfôrm [key] [acronym for Communist Information Bureau], information agency organized in 1947 and dissolved in 1956. Its members were the Communist parties of…

Information Please Haiku Contest

// Cite Tributes to Seinfeld A selection of haikus from some of the editors at Information Please: How could you cancel? Hey Jerry, the jerk store called They're all out of…

Elia Kazan—Genius or Informant?

Half a century after McCarthyism, the Academy Award-winning director is again under fire for naming names by Rachael Stark The House Un-American Activities Committee's quest to ferret out…

Information Please Copyright Notices

Copyright Notices Copyright © 2000-2006 Information Please. All rights reserved worldwide.Information Please and Information Please Almanac are registered trademarks of Family Education…