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1996-97 Football Season: 1997 College Draft

First and second round selections at the 62nd annual NFL College Draft held April 19-20, 1997, in New York City. 16 underclassmen were among the first 60 players chosen and are listed in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hymn to Mercury

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to Castor and PolluxHymn to Mercury Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. This alone of the "…

Footnotes - The Odyssey

Footnotes Black races are evidently known to the writer as stretching all across Africa, one half looking West on to the Atlantic, and the other East on to the Indian Ocean. The original…

Newfoundland and Labrador, province, Canada

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Newfoundland and LabradorNewfoundland and Labradorny&oomacr;ˈfənlənd, ny&oomacr;fənlăndˈ; lăbˈrədôrˌ [key], province (2001 pop. 512,930), 156,185 sq mi (404,519 sq km),…

Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of

(Encyclopedia) Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of, name of the church founded (1830) at Fayette, N.Y., by Joseph Smith. The headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its members, now…

Crimea

(Encyclopedia) CrimeaCrimeakrīmēˈə [key], Rus. and Ukr. Krym, peninsula and republic (1991 est. pop. 2,363,000), c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), SE Europe, linked with the mainland by the Perekop…

John Keats: Chaucer

by JohnKeatsSleep and PoetryChaucer What is more gentle than a wind in summer? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily…