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airport

(Encyclopedia) airport or airfield, place for landing and departure of aircraft, usually with facilities for housing and maintaining planes and for receiving and discharging passengers and cargo.…

Opus Dei

(Encyclopedia) Opus DeiOpus Deiōˈpəs dāˈē [key] [Lat.,=work of God], Roman Catholic organization, particularly influential in Spain, officially the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Opus Dei…

John Quincy ADAMS, Congress, MA (1767-1848)

Senate Years of Service: 1803-1808Party: FederalistADAMS, John Quincy, (son of John Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams, brother-in-law of William Stephens Smith), a Senator and a…

Toy Story

Introduction   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     Next by Beth Rowen Toy Story (1995) Ok, so the Mouse House only released the films, but Michael Eisner and Co. were savvy enough…

1998 Movie Awards

1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best PictureSaving Private RyanBest ActorIan McKellen, Gods and MonstersBest Actress (tie)Ally Sheedy, High Art Fernanda Montenegro, Central…

Whitman, Walt

(Encyclopedia) Whitman, Walt (Walter Whitman), 1819–92, American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity…

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