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Weather: Mass Appeal

Mass AppealWeatherOn Another FrontMass AppealPutting Up a FrontFrontal AttackStorms on the FrontTelling What's Next Although the weather is very changeable and always seems to show great variations…

July 2022 Current Events: Disaster News

Top of Page World News | US News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the Disaster…

Chu Mei-feng

Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng became famous in December 2001 when a video of her having sex with a married man was distributed on CD by Taiwan's Scoop magazine. Chu was a Taipei city councillor…

Charlotte Church, 1999 News

13, Welsh soprano, took the world by storm with the release of her appropriately titled debut album, Voice of an Angel. She has performed for Queen Elizabeth, Pope John Paul II, and…

Islam Karimov, 2005 News

president of Uzbekistan, faced international criticism in May, after hundreds of antigovernment demonstrators in Andijan were killed in a military crackdown. The demonstration began after…

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, 2003 News

Iraqi information minister, gained a cult following among Americans for his bravado and often outrageous proclamations about the status of the war in Iraq. As coalition troops stormed…

Brewer's: Bell

Acton, Currer, and Ellis. Assumed names of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. Bell As the bell clinks, so the fool thinks, or, As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks. The tale says when…

Worst Weather of the Twentieth Century

Climatologists, meteorologists, and hydrologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) compiled a list of the world's most notable weather, water, and climate events in the…