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Current Events This Week: September 2023

Top of Page World News | U.S. News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News It's a busy world out there, so that’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories for each week of September…

Walt Whitman: Our Old Feuillage

Our Old FeuillageAlways our old feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California's…

Katinka Hosszú

Katinka Hosszú is the Hungarian swimmer who won three gold medals and a silver at the Rio Olympics in 2016. She is known as the "Iron Lady." A 2012 graduate of the University of Southern California…

Ziegfeld, Florenz

(Encyclopedia) Ziegfeld, FlorenzZiegfeld, Florenzflôrˈənz zēgˈfĕld [key], 1869–1932, American theatrical producer, b. Chicago. The talent manager son of a German immigrant, in 1907 he first produced…

Reyes, Alfonso

(Encyclopedia) Reyes, AlfonsoReyes, Alfonsoälfônˈsō rāˈyĕs [key], 1889–1959, Mexican writer, diplomat, and educator. Reyes is generally recognized as one of the greatest Spanish-American writers of…

October 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of October 2009. Iran Sending Enriched Uranium to Russia (Oct. 1): In talks with U.S. and other major powers…

Tennis 2001 French Open Women's Singles Finals

FINAL EIGHT—#1 Martina Hingis; #4 Jennifer Capriati; #6 Serena Williams; #12 Kim Clijsters; #14 Justine Henin; plus unseeded Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Petra Mandula and Francesca Schiavone.…

Tennis 2001 Wimbledon Women's Singles Finals

FINAL EIGHT—#2 Venus Williams; #3 Lindsay Davenport, #4 Jennifer Capriati; #5 Serena Williams; #7 Kim Clijsters; #8 Justine Henin; #9 Nathalie Tauziat; #19 Conchita Martinez. Quarterfinals Henin…

2000 Men's Singles Wimbledon Winners

FINAL EIGHT— #1 Pete Sampras; #2 Andre Agassi; #10 Mark Philippoussis; #12 Patrick Rafter; plus unseeded Byron Black, Jan-Michael Gambill, Alexander Popp and Vladmir Voltchkov. Quarterfinals…