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December 2017 Current Events: US News
Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | World News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…Runyonese
The Question: What dialect are the characters in Guys and Dolls speaking? The Answer: "Runyonese." Guys and Dolls, a musical and motion picture, is based on the book of the same name by Damon…Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is a journalist and historian who spent much of his career at TIME magazine, and was briefly the chairman and CEO of CNN. He’s famous for his biographies of Henry Kissinger, Steve…Biohazard Symbol Origins
The Question: What are the origins and significance of the components of the biohazard symbol? The Answer: The symbol was designed by Dow Chemical. Scientists at…David Mitchell
Novelist David Mitchell earns heaps of critical praise for his ambitious, structurally complex novels, including 2001's number9dream and 2004's Cloud Atlas. Educated at the University of Kent,…Aravind Adiga Biography
writerBorn: 23 October 1974Best Known as: popular Indian writer who won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008 Birthplace: Madras, India Aravind…TIME Persons of the Year
The Question: How many times has the Time Magazine Person of the Year been given to an abstract class of people or a non-human, rather than to individuals…Roman Catholic Church Hierarchy
The Catholic clergy is organized in a strict, sometimes overlapping hierarchy: Pope: Head of the church, he is based at the Vatican. The pope is infallible in defining matters of faith and…Jeff Bezos
Name at birth: Jeffrey Preston JorgensenJeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com and one of the richest people in the world. Jeff Bezos was born to Jacklyn and Ted Jorgensen; after their divorce,…Cristina Saralegui Biography
Cristina SaraleguiTV show hostBorn: 1/29/1948Birthplace: Havana, Cuba Born into a prominent newspaper publishing family, Saralegui came to Miami in 1960. While earning a degree in mass…Trending
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