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The Supreme Court: Limiting Abortion Rights

Limiting Abortion RightsThe Supreme CourtControlling Our BodiesLimiting Abortion RightsDenying the Right to DieUsing MarijuanaForcing Drug Tests Since abortion was legalized in 1973 by the…

Algebra: Encountering Expressions

Encountering Expressions Algebra Encountering Expressions Introducing Variables Translating Words into Math Behold the Power of Exponents Living Large with Scientific Notation Dastardly…

Summer Olympics Biographies, A-Z

Abebe Bikila Related Links All-Time Leading Medal Winners Quiz: Memorable Ceremonies Olympics Timeline Summer Olympics Through The Years A-D | E-J | K-P | R-Z Agassi, Andre,…

Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971–87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was…

Narnia: A Look Back

Narnia: A Look Back It's been fifty-five (Earth) years since our first visit by Holly Hartman According to C. S. Lewis, it "all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and…

U-Z

Robert Anacletus UnderwoodLila Meade ValentineValmikiNydia VelázquezAnn M. VenemanJesse VenturaHenry WadeAn WangNancy Ward Maxine Waters(Alyce) Faye WattletonJ. C. WattsJohn and Eliza WebbEmmeline…

The Worst United States Man-Made Disasters

Jennie Wood 1. Flint Water Crisis  2. Hurricane Katrina  3. BP Oil Spill  4. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  5. Three Mile Island  6. St. Francis Dam  7. Picher Lead  8.…

Women in Sports: Basketball

The first women's intercollegiate basketball game took place between Stanford and the University of California on April 4, 1896. Stanford won.…

White, Byron Raymond

(Encyclopedia) White, Byron Raymond, 1917–2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962–93), b. Fort Collins, Colo. An All-America football player nicknamed “Whizzer” who later starred as a…

Tillman, Benjamin Ryan

(Encyclopedia) Tillman, Benjamin Ryan, 1847–1918, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1895–1918), b. Edgefield co., S.C. A farmer, he became the leader of the backcountry whites in South Carolina and…