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Stockton, Robert Field

(Encyclopedia) Stockton, Robert Field, 1795–1866, American naval officer, b. Princeton, N.J. He left the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) to enter the U.S. Navy at 16 and served in the War of…

May 2009 Current Events: U.S. News

World News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of May 2009. Longshot Mine That Bird Wins Kentucky Derby (May 2): A 50–1…

College Basketball

Former Princeton Tiger and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley holds the single-game Final Four record, scoring 58 points in 1965 in the now-defunct Final Four consolation game.“Pistol” Pete Maravich…

REHBERG, Dennis, Congress, MT (1955)

REHBERG, Dennis, a Representative from Montana; born in Billings, Yellow Stone County, Mont., October 5, 1955; graduated from West High School, Billings, Mont.; B.A., Washington State University…

Jo Ann EMERSON, Congress, MO (1950)

EMERSON, Jo Ann, (wife of Bill Emerson), a Representative from Missouri; born in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md, September 16, 1950; B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1972;…

Edith Nourse Rogers

U.S. congresswomanBorn: 1881Birthplace: Saco, Maine Edith Nourse married John J. Rogers, a successful lawyer in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1912 her husband was elected to Congress and Rogers became…

Jeff Bezos

entrepreneur, founder of Amazon.comBorn: 1964Birthplace: New Mexico Who says you can't sell stuff over the Internet? Jeff Bezos believes you can, and created one of the best-known e-commerce sites…

Government Primer

Three Branches of Government Checks and Balances How a Bill Becomes a Law Filibuster Powers of the Government Powers Denied the Government Government Trivia “…

Counterfeit Money

Source: The U.S. Secret Service Counterfeiting of money is one of the oldest crimes in history. It was a serious problem during the 19th century when banks issued their own currency. At the time of…

minimum wage

(Encyclopedia) minimum wage, lowest wage legally permitted in an industry or in a government or other organization. The goal in establishing minimum wages has been to assure wage earners a standard…