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Royal Family Quizzes & Crosswords

Royal Family Quizzes and Crosswords Take a quiz or try the crossword to find out how well you know the royal family. Quiz: Modern Royals Quiz: Royals Through the Ages Main British Royalty page…

What happened in 1987

The Question: I'm in 7th grade and I need to know what the postage rate for a first class letter was and also I need to know one top story in 1987 for my…

Zeus's Shield

The Question: What is the shield of Zeus? The Answer: According to Greek mythology, Aegis was the name of the shield carried by Zeus,…

Anthony J. Principi

George W. Bush's secretary of Veterans' Affairs Born: 4/16/1944Birthplace: New York, N.Y. This is Principi's second time as head of Veterans' Affairs. He served as deputy secretary of the…

Charles Handy

management educator, writerBorn: 1932Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland After studying at Oxford and becoming a manager at Shell Petroleum from 1956–65, he became an economist in London. He taught at the…

Charles Wiley

publisherBorn: 1782Birthplace: New York City Having opened his own print shop in 1807, he later expanded into publishing and published several well-known New Yorkers, including Washington Irving…

Noam Chomsky

linguist, writer, political activistBorn: 12/7/1928Birthplace: Philadelphia A professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky pioneered the theory of…

John Dos Passos

novelistBorn: 1/14/1896Birthplace: American novelist who wrote the trilogies U.S.A. (completed 1936) and District of Columbia (completed 1949), as well as several other fictional works dealing…

Donald Sutherland

actorBorn: 7/17/1934Birthplace: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada Film actor who struggled for years as a supporting actor before establishing himself as a lead in M*A*S*H (1970). His other films…