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Sacagawea
Sacagawea was a Shoshone Indian who traveled with the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804-1806. Sacagawea was the slave wife of the expedition's French-Canadian guide, Touissaint Charbonneau; the…Selected Essays in Black History<cite>by Oswald Garrison Villard</cite>
The Fruits of Industrial Training Baxter's Procrustes The Negro in the Regular Army by Oswald Garrison Villard When the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment stormed Fort Wagner July…The Iliad of Homer: Of the battle around the body of Patroklos
Book 16 Book 18 Of the battle around the body of Patroklos. But Atreus' son, Menelaos dear to Ares, was not unaware of the slaying of Patroklos by the Trojans in the fray. He went up…Morocco Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Morocco Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Moroccan Relations PEOPLEMoroccans are predominantly…Foday Sankoh, 2000 News
Sierra Leone rebel leader, was captured by pro-government soldiers in May, days after his Revolutionary United Front kidnapped more than 500 U.N. peacekeepers. Sankoh's forces ravaged Sierra…Kelly Clarkson, 2002 News
singer, was named America's newest idol in September on FOX's talent-search show, American Idol. In each episode, a parade of young crooners performed in front of a live audience, and…Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson is the flute-playing singer of the UK rock band Jethro Tull. Formed in England in 1967, the group mixed blues, rock and folk music and had a string of successful albums between 1969 and…The Devil's Dictionary: Abatis
by Ambrose Bierce ABASEMENTABDICATIONABATIS -n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.Walt Whitman: The Bravest Soldiers
The Bravest SoldiersBrave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight; But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov is famous as the man behind experiments that showed the relationship between a stimulus and a conditioned response. He studied medicine in Russia and Germany, accepting posts…