Search

Search results

Displaying 61 - 70

2002 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Ryan R. Patterson, Grand Junction, Colo., for his project entitled “The American Sign Language Translator.” Patterson devised a glove that converts…

John LANGDON, Congress, NH (1741-1819)

Senate Years of Service: 1789-1801 Party: Pro-Administration; Anti-Administration; Democratic Republican LANGDON John , a Delegate and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., June…

Year in Review 2000

  Top Headlines   News of the World News of the Nation Month by Month People in the News   People in the News Deaths in 2000 Nobel Prize Winners Search…

Massachusetts Bay Company

(Encyclopedia) Massachusetts Bay Company, English chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony in New England. Organized (1628) as the New England Company, it took over the…

Holidays in America

The major federal, religious, traditional, and informal holidays celebrated in the United States Choose a Holiday: New Year's DayEpiphanyMartin Luther King's BirthdayMawild al-NabiGroundhog…

Brewer's: Galway Jury

An enlightened, independent jury. The expression has its birth in certain trials held in Ireland in 1635 upon the right of the king to the counties of Ireland. Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo…

Brewer's: Bearded

Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.) Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of…

Entertainment News from August 2001

3Heartthrob actor Ben Affleck announces that he has checked himself into the Promises rehabilitation center for alcohol abuse. Robert Downey, Jr. and Paula Poundstone are also undergoing…

1961–1970

1961—New York A.L. 4 (Ralph Houk); Cincinnati N.L. 1 (Fred Hutchinson). WP—New York: Ford (1, 4), Arroyo (3), Daley (5); Cincinnati: Jay (2). LP—New York: Terry (2); Cincinnati: O'Toole (1, 4…