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How to Apply for Benefits

You apply for benefits by filing a claim either in person, by mail, or by telephone at any Social Security office. You can get the address of your nearest office either from the post office…

Health and Social Statistics

Find a list of the most powerful women in the world, birth rates, life expectancy, leading causes of mortality, regional statistics for AIDS, the best countries for mothers and more.…

Compendium of U.S. Statistics

Find data here on the U.S. economy, population, births, deaths, poverty, crime, and more.   Profile of the United States Population Household and Family Statistics Marital Status…

Virginia Apgar Biography

Virginia Apgarphysician and anesthesiologist Born: 6/7/1909 Birthplace: Westfield, New Jersey Apgar is best known for developing the Apgar Score System (1952), which evaluates a newborn's…

Brewer's: Yuletide

has been held as a sacred festival by numberless nations. Christians hold December 25th as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. China on the same day celebrates the birth of Buddha, son…

This Week In Health

      This Week In Health   Our weekly roundup of the latest developments in the world of health. More insight into the heart benefits of moderate drinking, flu fatalities and obesity's…

Brewer's: Napoleon III

Few men have had so many nicknames. MAN OF DECEMBER, so called because his coup detat was December 2nd, and he was made emperor December 2nd, 1852. MAN OF SEDAN, and, by a pun, M.…

More Recent Trends

Although adoption is mentioned in the legal codes and writings of many ancient peoples, including the Romans and Hebrews, no such laws existed in England or her colonies prior to the middle of the…

The Pivot of Civilization: Introduction

by Margaret Sanger DedicationA New Truth EmergesIntroduction Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do…