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May 2005 Disasters

May 18, Los Barros Range, Chile: a fierce snow storm in the Los Barros range of the Andes mountains killed at least 46 soldiers on training on an army exercise. See also Major Earthquakes…

Wong, Anna May

(Lu Tsong Wong) actressBirthplace: Los AngelesBorn: 1907Died: 1961

French, Nora May

French, Nora May[1881-1907](1)Born in East Aurora, New York, and died at Carmel, California, on November 14, 1907, when twenty-six years of age. A small volume of her poems, edited by her…

Christina Rossetti: May

MayI cannot tell you how it was; But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and breezy day When May was young; ah, pleasant May! As yet the poppies were not born Between the blades of…

Smith, May Riley

Smith, May Riley[1842-1927](1)Born in Rochester, N.Y., May 7, 1842. Educated at Tracey Female Institute, Rochester, and at Brockport, N.Y., Collegiate Institute. Married Albert Smith, of…

Misty May-Treanor

Name at birth: Misty MayMisty May-Treanor and her partner Kerri Walsh won gold medals in beach volleyball at the summer Olympics of 2004 (in Athens), 2008 (in Beijing) and 2012 (in London). May-…

Brewer's: Nuts of May

Here we go gathering nuts of May. A corruption of knots or springs of May. We still speak of “love-knots,” and a bunch of flowers is called a “knot.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Queen of the May

A village lass chosen to preside over the parish sports on May Day. Tennyson has a poem on the subject. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen of the…

Phenomena, 2006: May

For terms in boldface, see Astronomical Terms.DayPhenomenonHour2Mars is 4° south of the Moon.11003Pallas, the second-largest asteroid, appears to be motionless in the sky as it goes from…