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Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

The Democratic president was re-elected in 2012 by Beth Rowen and Jennie Wood Barack Obama Related Links Barack Obama's campaign website Michelle…

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Tuberculosis: Treating TB

Treating TBTuberculosisIntroductionTuberculosis: Airborne NightmareTreating TBTB Is a Global Peril Most of the time TB can be cured with antibiotics. If you have TB, you will need to take several…

eugenics

(Encyclopedia) eugenicseugenicsy&oomacr;jĕnˈĭks [key], study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. Efforts to improve…

fencing

(Encyclopedia) fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Swords have been in use since the Bronze Age, and nearly all people of antiquity practiced swordsmanship. Fencing as a contest…

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

(Encyclopedia) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deCervantes Saavedra, Miguel desərvănˈtēz, Span. mēgĕlˈ dā thĕrvänˈtās säˌävāᵺrä [key], 1547–1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don…

Spector, Phil

(Encyclopedia) Spector, Phil (Harvey Philip), 1939-2021, American record producer, b. Bronx, NY. The child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Spector’s…

Rabelais, François

(Encyclopedia) Rabelais, FrançoisRabelais, Françoisrăbˈəlā, Fr. fräNswäˈ räblāˈ [key], c.1490–1553, French writer and physician, one of the great comic geniuses in world literature. His father, a…

Sartre, Jean-Paul

(Encyclopedia) Sartre, Jean-PaulSartre, Jean-PaulzhäN-pôl särˈtrə [key], 1905–80, French philosopher, playwright, and novelist. Influenced by German philosophy, particularly that of Heidegger, Sartre…