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Economic Indicators

          It is said that the only way to get a unanimous opinion from a group of economists is to limit the group to one person. Economists are notorious for being unable to achieve…

Science News, 2011

Major science news stories, from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the Chilean miners trapped underground by Catherine McNiff Two scientists checking equipment in the central tube of the Large…

June 2010 Current Events: Business News

U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of June 2010.         Economy Adds 431,000 Jobs in May, Mostly…

City of Angels

Director Brad Silberling Writers Dana Stevens Director of Photography: John Seale Editor: Lynzee Klingman Music: Gabriel Yared Production Designer: Lilly Kilvert…

Entertainment News from October 2001

1Miramax is reportedly going ahead with plans to produce a movie about Osama bin Laden's plans to destroy the White House. The story is based on an eerily prescient novel, Crisis Four, by…

George John MITCHELL, Congress, ME (1933)

Senate Years of Service: 1980-1995 Party: Democrat MITCHELL George John , a Senator from Maine; born in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, August 20, 1933; attended the public schools; graduated…

Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl

(Encyclopedia) Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st EarlAttlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earlătˈlē [key], 1883–1967, British statesman. Educated at Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1905. His…

Austro-Prussian War

(Encyclopedia) Austro-Prussian War or Seven Weeks War, June 15–Aug. 23, 1866, between Prussia, allied with Italy, and Austria, seconded by Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, Hanover, Baden, and several…

Know-Nothing movement

(Encyclopedia) Know-Nothing movement, in U.S. history. The increasing rate of immigration in the 1840s encouraged nativism. In Eastern cities where Roman Catholic immigrants especially had…

sanction

(Encyclopedia) sanction, in law and ethics, any inducement to individuals or groups to follow or refrain from following a particular course of conduct. All societies impose sanctions on their members…