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Halloween Movies for Kids: Casper

Ben Stein stars in Casper by Beth Rowen Casper   Rated PG   The perpetually perturbed Ms. Carrigan descends into further irritability when she learns that her inheritance…

June 2001 Disasters

May–June, Utah: Hordes of crickets and grasshoppers infested more than 1.5 million acres in 18 of the state's 29 counties, causing some $25 million in crop damage. June 6, Bangladesh: Severe…

The Little Book of Modern Verse: Foreword

Foreword"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies, is not a formal anthology. The pageant of American poetry has been so often presented that no necessity exists for another…

Margaret Fuller

Name at birth: Sarah Margaret FullerMargaret Fuller was a New England intellectual and journalist whose 1845 book Woman in the Nineteenth Century was a key influence on American women suffragists of…

State and Main

Director/Writer: David Mamet Fine Line Features; R; 102 minutes Release: 12/00 Cast: Alec Baldwin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy David Mamet's…

ELLIOTT, James, Congress, MA (1775-1839)

ELLIOTT, James, a Representative from Vermont; born in Gloucester, Mass., August 18, 1775; during his early years worked on a farm and clerked in a store; moved to Guilford, Vt., in 1790; served…

Samuel JOHNSTON, Congress, NC (1733-1816)

Senate Years of Service: 1789-1793 Party: Pro-Administration JOHNSTON Samuel , a Delegate and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Dundee, Scotland, December 15, 1733; immigrated to the United…

John Davis LONG, Congress, MA (1838-1915)

LONG John Davis , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, October 27, 1838; attended the common schools at Buckfield and Hebron Academy, Maine; was…