(Encyclopedia) astronaut, crew member on a U.S. manned spaceflight mission; the Soviet term is cosmonaut. Candidates for manned spaceflight are carefully screened to meet the highest physical and…
Record of the Year“Hotel California,” EaglesAlbum of the YearRumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.)Song of the Year (tie)“Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand and Paul…
Even though it is only recently that women have been permitted to hold official roles in many religions, they have always been central to American religious life.…
(Encyclopedia) Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831–1908, American educator, first president of Johns Hopkins Univ., b. Norwich, Conn., grad. Yale, 1852. After serving as attaché (1853–55) of the American…
(Encyclopedia) Plymouth, city and unitary authority (1991 pop. 238,583), SW England, on Plymouth Sound. The three towns that Plymouth has comprised since 1914 are Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport…
Many children have written books that have been published. One of the first we know about is Francis Hawkins. In 1641, when he was 8 years old, he wrote a book of manners for children called Youth…
BERGER, Victor Luitpold, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Nieder Rebbach, Austria-Hungary, February 28, 1860; attended the Gymnasia at Leutschau and the universities at Budapest and…
