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Biographies of Notable U.S. Immigrants
Biographies of Notable U.S. Immigrants A-H | H-M | N-S | T-Z Charlize Theron, actor Chinua Achebe , writer Christiane Amanpour, TV news correspondent Elizabeth Arden,…A Guide to Inventions and Discoveries From Adrenaline to the Zipper
From Adrenaline to the Zipper See also Famous Firsts in Aviation, Nobel Prizes.Adrenaline:(isolation of) John Jacob Abel, U.S., 1897.Aerosol can:Erik Rotheim, Norway, 1926.Air brake:George…Nobel Prize for Economic Science
Find all the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, from 1969 to the present. For years not listed, no award was made. 1969Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Tinbergen (Netherlands),…Movies and Film: The Directors
The DirectorsMovies and FilmFilm DirectingHow to Recognize a Great DirectorTheories of DirectingThe DirectorsSome Films on Directing Now to the directors themselves. We've tried to be inclusive by…Weather: Richardson's Experiment
Richardson's ExperimentWeatherPrediction by NumbersRichardson's ExperimentPutting the Machines to Work Weather Words "Science is the knowledge of consequences and the dependence of one fact upon…Year in Review 2001 | Movies
By Beth Rowen Before Harry ShrekMementoNicole KidmanHedwig and the Angry InchA.I.Waking LifePearl HarborDavid LynchGhost WorldAfter Harry The Fellowship of the RingOcean's 11Vanilla SkyThe…The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 4
by Oscar Wilde Chapter 3Chapter 5Chapter 4 One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair. It…gambling
(Encyclopedia) gambling or gaming, betting of money or valuables on, and often participation in, games of chance (some involving degrees of skill). In England and in the United States, gambling was…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Damnation
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Grace Double Damnation Damnation 'O that mine enemy had written A book!'—cried Job:—a fearful curse, If to the Arab, as the Briton, 'Twas galling to be critic-bitten…Exploding Exercise Myths
Getting Americans off the couch and onto their feet could save an estimated 200,000 lives a year, says the surgeon general. Yet most of us are either sedentary or only minimally active.…Trending
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