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Berlin Wall

(Encyclopedia) Berlin Wall, 1961–89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later along the entire border between East…

New World War II Memorial Dedicated

by Shmuel Ross The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 29th, 2004. This was the first national memorial made to remember World War II, the…

James E. Sullivan Memorial Award Winners

(Amateur Athlete of the Year Chosen in Amateur Athletic Union Poll)1930 Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Golf1931 Bernard E. Berlinger Track and field1932 James A. Bausch Track and field1933 Glenn…

Recent Discoveries: Down Memory's Divided Lane

Psychologists studying patients with brain damage have concluded that the left side of the brain is used for language tasks and the right side for spatial and pictorial information.…

Brewer's: Though Lost to Sight, to Memory Dear

A writer in Harper's Magazine tells us that the author of this line was Ruthven Jenkyns, and that the poem, which consists of two stanzas each of eight lines, begins each stanza with “…

Bond, William Cranch

(Encyclopedia) Bond, William Cranch, 1789–1859, American astronomer, b. Portland, Maine. He early aided his father in the trades of silversmith and clockmaker in Boston. He soon became an expert in…