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Sentence Agreement: Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns Sentence Agreement Introduction Collective Nouns Indefinite Pronouns Walk This Way Agree to Disagree Indefinite pronouns, like collective nouns, can be singular or plural,…

Winter Olympics 2006 | Torino, Italy

Looking for information about the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics? Torino, Italy   Medal standings by sport: Choose a sport...Alpine SkiingBiathlonBobsleighCross-Country SkiingCurlingFigure…

2014 Olympics: Alpine Skiing

Ligety and Shiffrin skiing toward the podium Related Links 2014 Winter OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsHistory of Alpine SkiingAlpine Skiing Through the YearsEncyclopedia:…

Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865

Lincoln, Abraham (president of U.S.): Shot April 14, 1865, in Washington, DC, by John Wilkes Booth; died April 15.Seward, William H. (secretary of state): Escaped assassination (though injured)…

Herskovits, Melville Jean

(Encyclopedia) Herskovits, Melville JeanHerskovits, Melville Jeanhûrsˈkəvĭts [key], 1895–1963, American anthropologist, b. Bellefontaine, Ohio; educated at the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1920) and…

Grail, Holy

(Encyclopedia) Grail, Holy, a feature of medieval legend and literature. It appears variously as a chalice, a cup, or a dish and sometimes as a stone or a caldron into which a bleeding lance drips.…

Nazarenes

(Encyclopedia) NazarenesNazarenesnăzˈərēnz [key], group of German artists of the early 19th cent., who attempted to revive Christian art. In 1809, J. F. Overbeck and Franz Pforr formed an art…

Oecolampadius, Johannes

(Encyclopedia) Oecolampadius, JohannesOecolampadius, Johannesyōhänˈəs ökōlämpäˈdē&oobreve;s, ĕkˌəlămpāˈdēəs [key], 1482–1531, German Protestant reformer, associate of Huldreich Zwingli in the…

Brüning, Heinrich

(Encyclopedia) Brüning, HeinrichBrüning, Heinrichhīnˈrĭkh brünˈĭng [key], 1885–1970, German chancellor. Elected to the Reichstag in 1924, he was a leader of the Catholic Center party and a fiscal…

Bayreuth

(Encyclopedia) Bayreuth Bayreuth bīroitˈ [key], city, capital of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, S Germany, on the Red…