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Eliphalet Remington Biography

Eliphalet Remingtongun manufacturerBorn: 10/28/1793Birthplace: Suffield, Conn. With his father, he founded a smithy in upstate New York originally to manufacture farming tools. In 1816,…

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction who is known best for her novels Them (1969) and We Were the Mulvaneys (1996). Joyce Carol Oates grew up in rural upstate New York,…

Woodstock '99

Various Artists Hybrid/Epic It became known as the Woodstock of fires, destruction, and alleged rapes, but this summer's three-day music fest in upstate New York was supposed to be about the…

Dadetown

Director:Russ HexterWriters:Russ Hexter and John HousleyDirector of Photography:W.J. GormanEditor:David KirkmanProduction Designer:J. Edward VigeantProducer:Jim CardenCastle Hill; NR; 93…

King Conspiracy Theory #1

Ray was the unwitting patsy for someone shadier by Borgna Brunner Was James Earl Ray, a career criminal and known racist, nothing more than a patsy for someone even shadier? King Conspiracy…

Weld, Theodore Dwight

(Encyclopedia) Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803–95, American abolitionist, b. Hampton, Conn. In 1825 his family moved to upstate New York, and he entered Hamilton College. While in college he became a…

Major Chemical and Nuclear Disasters

Accidents happen, but when they destroy the delicate balance of nature or cause a large number of people to suffer, they become disasters. Here are some of the largest disasters that have been…

Weather: Fooling the Clouds

Fooling the CloudsWeatherBring on the RainDroplet to Drop … How Rain HappensTypes of PrecipitationFooling the CloudsSo Why Does It Rain? Now that we have a handle on the processes nature uses in…

Easy, Eye-Poppin Fourth of July Decorations

By Courtney Key Ever since I was a little girl, my family has driven from upstate New York all the way to Cape Cod to enjoy the Fourth of July. To this day, everyone stays at my Nana's home that's…

The Supreme Court and Federalism

  The framers of the Constitution sought to balance the rights of the several states and the powers of the new federal government. Their solution was a federal system, which divides powers between…