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I Pagliacci <br/>(The Clowns)

Music and Libretto:Ruggiero LeoncavalloPremiere:Milan, May 21, 1892 Leoncavallo's sentimental play-within-a-play unfolds in an Italian village, where a group of traveling actors are to…

Scott Adams

Scott AdamscartoonistBorn: 6/08/1957Birthplace: Catskill, New York American cartoonist who created (1989) the popular comic strip “Dilbert,” which features a likeable but hopelessly nerdy…

Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States. Madison is known as the woman who turned the new nation's capital at Washington, D. C. from a dull swamp into…

Scott Adams Biography

Scott AdamscartoonistBorn: 6/08/1957Birthplace: Catskill, New York American cartoonist who created (1989) the popular comic strip “Dilbert,” which features a likeable but hopelessly nerdy…

June 1997 News and Events

1997 News Month-By-MonthWorldFrench Vote for Leftists (June 1): In setback to President Chirac, Socialists and Communists gain allies. Vote is a mandate to reject economic austerity and press…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry Potter and the Midnight Show by Sarah Rowen Deathly Hallows Quizzes Deathly Hallows: I Quiz Deathly Hallows: II Quiz Deathly Hallows: III Quiz Deathly Hallows: IV Quiz…

Why is Kaliningrad part of Russia?

Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea The city that is now known as Kaliningrad has a contentious past. For most of its history it was inhabited by Prussian Germans, and was known by its German name…

Bahrain Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Bahrain Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations PEOPLEBahrain is one of the most densely populated countries…

Rosemary Clooney 2002 Deaths

Rosemary ClooneyAge: 74 deep-voiced singer and actress who was one of the country's premier jazz and pop singers of the 1950s and '60s. Her hits include “Come on-a My House” and “Mambo…

Gordon Parks 2006 Deaths

Gordon ParksAge: 93 photographer and filmmaker who was a premier fashion photographer in the 1940s, working for Vogue and Glamour. Born into poverty, he became the first African American to…