SHORT, Don Levingston, a Representative from North Dakota; born in Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, June 22, 1903; moved with parents to a ranch in Billings County, near Medora, N.Dak., in…
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Our solar system consists of a bright yellow star, eight planets, nearly 150 moons, and thousands of smaller objects like asteroids and comets. If you wanted to see all eight planets…
U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of March, 2009. President of Guinea-Bissau Killed (March 2): President João Bernardo…
(Encyclopedia) stealth technology, designs and materials engineered for the military purpose of avoiding detection by radar or any other electronic system. Stealth, or antidetection, technology is…
PRITCHARD, George Moore, (son of Jeter Connelly Pritchard), a Representative from North Carolina; born near Mars Hill in Madison County, N.C., January 4, 1886; attended the public schools of…
CHURCH, Ralph Edwin, (husband of Marguerite Stitt Church), a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm near Catlin, Vermilion County, Ill., on May 5, 1883; attended the public schools; was…
(Encyclopedia) Kepler, JohannesKepler, Johannesyōhäˈnəs kĕpˈlər [key], 1571–1630, German astronomer. From his student days at the Univ. of Tübingen, he was influenced by the Copernican teachings.…
(Encyclopedia) Vienna State Opera, opera house and company in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1869 as an expansion of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). Destroyed by wartime bombing in 1945, the elegant…
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