The Question: I would like information about the Totem Trail, probably used by pioneers in the 1900's. Where did it start? Did it go south to north or east to west? Where did…
YOUNGER, Jesse Arthur, a Representative from California; born in Albany, Linn County, Oreg., April 11, 1893; moved to Kirkland, Wash., in 1904; attended the public schools; graduated from the…
(Encyclopedia) factory, place of production characterized by wage labor, the use of machinery, and the division of labor. The large-scale use of machinery differentiates factory production from…
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Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, speaking at the Intershop Open Conference in 1999. Top Female CEOs Brenda Barnes Christina Gold…
(Encyclopedia) Dorsett, Tony (Anthony Drew Dorsett)Dorsett, Tonydôrˈsət [key], 1954–, American football player, b. Rochester, Pa. The first running back to gain over 6,000 yards in Division I-A, he…
(Encyclopedia) cocoa-plum, sweet but somewhat dry fruit of the evergreen tree Chrysobalanus icaco, of the family Chyrsobalanaceae. The fruits are eaten fresh and often made into preserves. An oil…
(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Richard W., 1827–97, Union general in the Civil War, b. Livingston co., Ky., grad. West Point, 1849. Before the Civil War he served principally on the frontier. Johnson, made…
(Encyclopedia) meadow beauty, any plant of the genus Rhexia, herbaceous perennials of wet places E of the Rockies, particularly damp pine barrens and sands along the southeast coast. A widespread…
(Encyclopedia) mullionmullionmŭlˈyən [key], in architecture, a slender, upright intermediate member that subdivides an opening, as a division between panes of a window or between adjacent windows.…
(Encyclopedia) orchard grass or cocksfoot, widely distributed perennial grass (Dactylis glomerata) native to Eurasia and N Africa and extensively naturalized in the United States. It is cultivated as…
