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The 1998 Emmy Awards

50th Emmy Awards: Comedy Series Nomineesprev | outstanding series | directing | writing | nextOutstanding Comedy SeriesAlly McBeal (Fox)Frasier (NBC)The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)Seinfeld (NBC)3rd…

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

(Encyclopedia) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is both a complex of buildings and the arts…

2002 Olympics

Salt Lake City These Games are controversial starting about three years before they begin, as it is revealed that several IOC members accepted inappropriately large gifts in exchange for voting to…

Women Leaders in Business

Profiles of leading female CEOs and business executives by John Gettings, David Johnson, Borgna Brunner, and Chris Frantz Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, speaking at the Intershop Open Conference…

Roundup of Recent Science Milestones, 2008

From a new lab on the International Space Station to the Large Hadron Collider by Mark Hughes Related Links New Planets and a Larger Solar System Encyclopedia: Leopard Famous…

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Are the Indiana Jones films historically accurate? by Mark Hughes Related Links Special Effects Archeology Ancient History World War II The Holocaust   In…

Child Stars at the Oscars

by Beth Rowen Related Links Academy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Daytime Emmy Awards Top 10 Kids Movies Released in 2006…

greenback

(Encyclopedia) greenback, in U.S. history, legal tender notes unsecured by specie (coin). In 1862, under the exigencies of the Civil War, the U.S. government first issued legal tender notes (…