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Selected Jurists

Henri La Fontaine See also U.S. Supreme Court Justices People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Supreme Court Facts Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History…

Landmarks of New York City

by Mark D. Hughes photos by Carol M. Highsmith The City of New York is the largest city in the United States, and home to many of the country's most famous and recognizable landmarks.…

1990 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year“Another Day in Paradise,” Phil CollinsAlbum of the YearBack on the Block, Quincy Jones (Qwest/Warner Bros.)Song of the Year“From a Distance,” Julie Gold, songwriterBest New…

English units of measurement

(Encyclopedia) English units of measurement, principal system of weights and measures used in a few nations, the only major industrial one being the United States. It actually consists of two related…

race

(Encyclopedia) race, one of the group of populations regarded as constituting humanity. The differences that have historically determined the classification into races are predominantly physical…

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Irish Quotations

  Those Quotable Irish   John Millington Synge, W.B. Yeats, and others   Compiled by David Johnson, Ann Marie Imbornoni, and Borgna Brunner     The Irish have always been…

The Supreme Court: Punishing Students

Punishing StudentsThe Supreme CourtEducating Our KidsPunishing StudentsTesting for DrugsDealing with Sexual HarassmentLegalizing School Vouchers Schools always struggle with the issue of how…

electricity

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Electrical and radio symbols electricity, class of phenomena arising from the existence of charge. The basic unit of charge is that on the proton or electron—the proton's…