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Andy Murray
Name at birth: Andrew MurrayAndy Murray is the tennis player who in 2013 became the first Briton in 77 years to win the men's singles at Wimbledon. Andy Murray grew up in Dunblane, Scotland, where…Law, John
(Encyclopedia) Law, John, 1671–1729, Scottish financier in France, b. Edinburgh. After killing a man in a duel (1694) he fled to Amsterdam, where he studied banking. Returning to Scotland (1700), he…Du Pont
(Encyclopedia) Du PontDu Pontd&oomacr;pŏnt [key], family notable in U.S. industrial history. The Du Pont family's importance began when Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont established a gunpowder mill on…Oporto
(Encyclopedia) OportoOporto&oobreve;pôrˈtō [key], Port. Pôrto, city (1991 pop. 310,600), capital of Porto dist. and Douro Litoral, NW Portugal, near the mouth of the Douro River. It is Portugal's…cable television
(Encyclopedia) cable television, the transmission of televised images to viewers by means of coaxial cables. Cable systems receive the television signal, which is sent out over cables to individual…Cabot, Sebastian
(Encyclopedia) Cabot, Sebastian, b. 1483–86?, d. 1557, explorer in English and Spanish service; son of John Cabot. He may well have accompanied his father on the 1497 and 1498 voyages, and he was for…Harness Racing
History of Traditional Harness-Racing StakesDan Patch Awards Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, wrote that the running horse was a gambling toy, but that the…Disney Movies: The Little Mermaid (1989)
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next by Beth Rowen The Little Mermaid (1989) It's interesting to note that the most memorable entries in the Disney franchise were all released pre-2000…Electoral Revolution: Yugoslavia and Mexico
In Sept. 2000, federal elections in Yugoslavia formally ended the autocratic rule of Slobodan Milosevic, who had entangled his country in almost continuous war, first with the breakaway republics of…Costa Rica Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Costa Rica Index: People History Government Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Costa Rican Relations PEOPLE Unlike many of…Trending
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