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2005 NCAA Championship Playoffs

DIVISION I-AAQuarterfinals(Dec. 3, 2005)Northern Iowa 24, New Hampshire 21Texas State 14, Cal Poly 7Furman 24, Richmond 20Appalachian State 38, Southern Ill. 24Semifinals(Dec. 9–10, 2005)…

Potomac

(Encyclopedia) PotomacPotomacpətōˈmək [key], river, 285 mi (459 km) long, formed SE of Cumberland, Md., by the confluence of its North and South branches and flowing generally SE to Chesapeake Bay.…

Continental Divide

(Encyclopedia) Continental Divide, the “backbone” of a continent. In North America, from N Alaska to New Mexico, it moves along the crest of the Rocky Mts., which separates streams with outlets to…

Gaspé Peninsula

(Encyclopedia) Gaspé Peninsula or GaspésieGaspé Peninsulagäspāzēˈ [key], tongue of land, E Que., Canada, between the estuary of the St. Lawrence River on the north and Chaleur Bay on the south, and…

2006 NCAA Championship Playoffs

  DIVISION I-AA Quarterfinals (Dec. 2, 2006)   Massachusetts 24, New Hampshire 17   Appalachian State 38, Montana State 17   Youngstown State 28, Illinois State 21  …

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his ballet Appalachian Spring (1944). A New Yorker, he studied in France in the early 1920s and returned to the United States in…

North Carolina

North Carolina State Information Capital: Raleigh  Official Name: North Carolina Organized as a territory/republic: March 24, 1663 Entered Union (rank): November 21, 1789  Present constitution…

Virginia Ann FOXX, Congress, NC (1943)

FOXX Virginia Ann , a Representative from North Carolina; born in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 29, 1943; graduated from Crossnore High School, Crossnore, N.C., 1961; A.B., University of…

Crumb, George Henry

(Encyclopedia) Crumb, George Henry, 1929–, American composer, b. Charleston, W.Va., grad. Mason College of Music, Charleston (B.A. 1950); Univ. of Illinois (M.A. 1953); Univ. of Michigan (D.M.A. 1959…