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Pacquiao, Manny

(Encyclopedia) Pacquiao, Manny (Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao), 1978–, Phillipine boxer and politician, b. Mindanao. From his first professional win at age 16 he has gone on to win world titles in eight…

White, Byron Raymond

(Encyclopedia) White, Byron Raymond, 1917–2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962–93), b. Fort Collins, Colo. An All-America football player nicknamed “Whizzer” who later starred as a…

The Gay Rights Movement of the 20th Century

Source: Excerpted from The Reader's Companion to American History. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Late in the [19th] century, as large cities allowed for greater anonymity, as wage…

Brutus XII

Brutus XII7 February 1788by See also Federalist No. 81In my last, I shewed, that the judicial power of the United States under the first clause of the second section of article eight, would…

Weather: What Would I Do?

What Would I Do?WeatherMaking a Career Out of ItWhat Would I Do?How Much Will I Earn?How Do I Become a Meteorologist?Will I Find a Job? Almost every single aspect of our lives is affected by the…

bureaucracy

(Encyclopedia) bureaucracybureaucracyby&oobreve;rŏkˈrəsē [key], the administrative structure of any large organization, public or private. Ideally bureaucracy is characterized by hierarchical…