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Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of July 2009.
Unemployment Rate Reaches 9.5%; 467,000 Jobs Lost in June (July 2): The…
America's biggest secular holiday by David Johnson John Adams wrote that the Fourth of July "...ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells…
Famous Americans who share their birthdays with the United States of America by Tasha Vincent Related Links Calendar and Holidays US History & Government Infoplease…
(Encyclopedia) Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise deRambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise dekätrēnˈ də vēvônˈ märkēzˈ də räNb&oomacr;yāˈ [key], 1588–1665, famous Frenchwoman, whose…
(Encyclopedia) Huc, Évariste RégisHuc, Évariste Régisāvärēstˈ rāzhēsˈ ük [key], 1813–60, French Roman Catholic missionary and explorer, a Lazarist priest. In 1844 while in China on a mission, he and…
Grab your sparklers and look skyward—the Fourth of July is almost upon us. The Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of…
Fourth of July Quotes Founders' Wisdom: quotations from signers of the Declaration of Independence Compiled by Elizabeth Olson We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men…
(Encyclopedia) Rivette, Jacques Pierre Louis, 1928–2016, French filmmaker and critic b. Rouen. One of the French New Wave directors of the 1950s and 60s, he wrote criticism for the influential…
(Encyclopedia) Récamier, JulietteRécamier, Juliettezhülyĕtˈ rākämyāˈ [key], 1777–1849, celebrated French beauty and social figure, née Jeanne Françoise Julie Adelaïde Bernard. At 15 she married…
