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Columbine in Mind

Tighter security for schools by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco As a precaution against weapons on campus, some schools have installed airport-style metal detectors. "I'll just ignore them. I don't…

Biographies: Archaeologists

ArchaeologistsPeople in the NewsRecent ObituariesBiographies by CategoryBelzoni, Giovanni Battista, Italian adventurer and antiquities dealer Bent, James Theodore, English explorer and…

Yiddish Glossary

From my bashert to my zaide by Erin Teare Related Links Judaism PrimerEncyclopedia: YiddishBranches of JudaismAn amalgam of medieval German dialects, Yiddish was first used in the Jewish…

International Media Researcher

Anonymous Tell us about your work-what do you do? I am an international media researcher and the director of audience research…

Spanish language

(Encyclopedia) CEE Spanish language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Spain and 19…

language

(Encyclopedia) language, systematic communication by vocal symbols. It is a universal characteristic of the human species. Nothing is known of its origin, although scientists have identified a gene…

Terrorist Trouble Spots Around the World

by David Johnson The U.S. State Department cites seven nations—Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria—as state sponsors of terrorism. The nations have long been…

LEGO<sup><span >®</span></sup> Timeline

The history of Billund, Denmark's LEGO Group, including LEGO Bricks, LEGOLANDs, MINDSTORMS, minifigures, and more by Mark Hughes Read more about LEGO and try our LEGO Quiz! From 1932 to the…

Brewer's: Dwarfs

(under the three feet in height). ANDROMEDA, 2 ft. 4 in. One of Julia's free maids. (See below, gonopas.) ARISTRATOS, the poet, was so small that Athenæos says, “no one could see him.”…