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Joseph Greenberg 2001 Deaths
Joseph GreenbergAge: 85 prominent linguist who specialized in classifying the 5,000 languages of the world. He organized Africa's 1,500 languages into four families: Niger-Kordofanian,…Amy Tan
Amy Tan is a Chinese-American author from San Francisco who wrote the 1989 best-seller The Joy Luck Club. The daughter of immigrants, Tan spent most of her childhood in central California. In the…Vernon Walters 2002 Deaths
Vernon WaltersAge: 85 public official and general who served under President Nixon as the deputy director of the CIA and under Reagan as ambassador to the UN. In all, Walters worked for seven…Alfred Kreymborg: Old Manuscript
Old ManuscriptAlfred KreymborgThe sky Is that beautiful old parchment In which the sun And the moon Keep their diary. To read it all, One must be a linguist More learned than Father Wisdom;…More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures iIn Sonic Fiction
Author:Kodwu EshunPublisher:Quartet Books Essayist and cultural critic Kodwu Eshun really loves his music collection. Chances are he'll make you want to go out and buy some CDs too. In this…Islam Primer
The Islamic world—history, beliefs, and culture Countries with the largest Muslim populations Indonesia Pakistan India Bangladesh Egypt Turkey Nigeria Iran…George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was a superstar playwright and tart-tongued literary personality of the early 20th century. His most famous plays include Arms and the Man (1894), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion…2004 Nobel Prize Winners
Peace: Wangari Maathai (Kenya) “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”Literature: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices…The Most Common Words in the English Language
The Question: What are the five most common words in the English language? The Answer: This question is not as simple as it sounds. Even…Eugene Garfield
Dr. Eugene Garfield is the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and a pioneer in the field of citation analysis. Garfield studied at the University of Colorado and Berkeley…Trending
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