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DK Science: Reproductive System

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM JOURNEY OF SPERM AND EGG FERTILIZATION READY TO BE BORN FROM FERTILIZED EGG TO NEWBORN BABY FIND OUT MORE The male and female parts of…

When Music and Politics Collide

From Verdi to Pussy Riot, musicians use their lyrics and music as a vehicle to express their political views. by Jennie Wood Pussy Riot at Lobnoye Mesto on Red…

Irish Writers: Biographies

Notable Irish Writers A-F | G-O | S-Y To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living…

Super Bowl XXXV Preview

Super Bowl Preview 2001 Giants vs. RavensJan. 28, 2001, 6:00 p.m. by Michael Morrison On the DefensiveBy now you've likely heard all the Super Bowl hype you can stand. You've heard all…

Major League Baseball 1999 | All-Star Game

The 1999 All Star Game by Mike Morrison Take the All Star Game Quiz!Major League Baseball's first All-Star Game, matching the best players in the American League with the best in the National…

The Supreme Court: Getting Searched on a Bus

Getting Searched on a BusThe Supreme CourtCollecting EvidenceSearching Your Car When You're Stopped for SpeedingUsing the Right Not to KnockFinding Marijuana with Thermal-Imaging…

Everglades

(Encyclopedia) Everglades, marshy, low-lying subtropical savanna area, c.4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km), S Fla., extending from Lake Okeechobee S to Florida Bay. Characterized by water, sawgrass,…

Industrial Workers of the World

(Encyclopedia) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the…

Anthony, Susan Brownell

(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…

Pennsylvania Dutch

(Encyclopedia) Pennsylvania Dutch [Ger. Deutsch=German], people of E Pennsylvania of German descent who migrated to the area in the 18th cent., particularly those in Northampton, Berks, Lancaster,…