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2007 Nobel Prize Winners

Related Links Nobel Prize History Nobel Prize History Quiz Nobel Peace Prize Winners Quiz Physics: Albert Fert (France)…

2014 Winter Olympics: Speed Skating

The Olympic demolition derby   Dan Jansen Related Links 2014 Winter Olympics Speed Skating Through the Years Short Track Speed Skating Through the Years Encyclopedia…

Ozzie Nelson

(Oswald George Nelson)actor, orchestra leader, producer, directorBorn: 3/20/1906Birthplace: Jersey City, New Jersey Orchestra leader who became the emblem for the 1950s typical American family with…

HAMPTON, Wade, Congress, SC (1818-1902)

Senate Years of Service: 1879-1891 Party: Democrat HAMPTON, Wade, (grandson of Wade Hampton [1752-1835]), a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 28, 1818; received…

William Lowndes YANCEY, Congress, AL (1814-1863)

YANCEY, William Lowndes, (uncle of Joseph Haynsworth Earle), a Representative from Alabama; born at the Falls of the Ogeechee, Warren County, Ga., August 10, 1814; attended preparatory school…

What Is Boxing Day?

Traditional English holiday extends Christmas giving by David Johnson Related Links Boxing Day Quiz Winter Holiday Roundup Bank Holidays Church of England…

Johnson, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Robert, 1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper's son, he grew up absorbing the music of Delta bluesmen,…

Carlsson, Arvid

(Encyclopedia) Carlsson, Arvid, 1923–2018, Swedish pharmacologist, grad. Univ. of Lund, Sweden, (M.D., Ph.D., 1951). Carlsson was a professor at the Univ. of Lund (1951–59) and at the Univ. of…

Voting Rights After Shelby v Holder

States move to tighten voting rules after Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act   Related Links Landmark Supreme Court Cases Civil Rights Timeline…

2013 Notable Books for Children

These books were chosen by a committee of librarians, educators, and other professionals for the Association for Library Service to Children. Younger…