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From the Russian countryside to Disneyland by Marcus McGraw and Catherine McNiff Editor's Picks AlpengeistBusch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA Alpengeist is one of the world's fastest and…
actor, director, producerBorn: 12/10/1960Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland Having escaped the poverty of his childhood in Belfast, Branagh moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of…
advertising executiveBorn: 7/26/1935Birthplace: Beaumont, Tex. Adept at combining her business acumen with a little Southern charm, Beers has paved the way for women to succeed in the extremely…
(Encyclopedia) Athabasca Pass, 5,736 ft (1,748 m) high, W Alta. and E British Columbia, Canada, leading from the headwaters of the Athabasca River across the Continental Divide to the Columbia River…
MILLER, Daniel Fry, a Representative from Iowa; born in Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., October 4, 1814; moved with his parents to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1816; attended the public schools;…
(Encyclopedia) Thomson or Thompson, Mortimer Neal, 1831–75, American journalist and humorist who used the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B., b. Riga, N.Y. He joined the staff of the New York…
(Encyclopedia) WoburnWoburnw&oomacr;ˈbərn [key], city (1990 pop. 35,943), Middlesex co., NE Mass.; settled 1640, inc. as a city 1888. Formerly a major center for tanneries, the city has…
(Encyclopedia) Ross, Betsy, 1752–1836, American seamstress, b. Philadelphia. Her full name was Elizabeth Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole. She is known to have made flags during the American Revolution…
(Encyclopedia) Challenger expedition, British oceanographic expedition under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thompson and the British naturalist Sir John Murray. Taking place…
