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Dogsledding

In 1974 Mary Shields and Lolly Medley became the first two women to race in the Iditarod. Shields placed 23rd while Medley came in 26 minutes after her…

Why make dollar coins?

The Question: Why does the US keep introducing dollar coins even though nobody seems to use them? The Answer: It does seem pointless at first…

Women Reformers and Activists

  Abbott - Crandell | Davies - King | La Flesche - Sanger | Seton - Wright Mary Church Terrell Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes…

Brooke Shields

  actress, modelBorn: 5/31/1965Birthplace: New York City   A model and actress who started her career by performing in an Ivory Soap commercial when she was just 11 months old. By her early teens…

L. William PAXON, Congress, NY (1954)

PAXON, L. William, (husband of Susan Molinari), a Representative from New York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., April 29, 1954; graduated, St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, Buffalo, N.Y…

Creeley, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Creeley, Robert, 1926–2005, American poet, b. Arlington, Mass. He lived in Asia, Europe, and Latin America and taught at various universities in the United States. With Charles Olson,…

daisy

(Encyclopedia) daisy [O.E.,=day's eye], name for several common wildflowers of the family Asteraceae (aster family). The daisy of literature, the true daisy, is Bellis perennis, called in the United…

neoexpressionism

(Encyclopedia) neoexpressionism, term given to an international art movement, mainly in painting, that began in the 1960s and 1970s, was a dominant mode in the 1980s, and has continued04/98 into the…

kindergarten

(Encyclopedia) kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of…

Blatch, Harriet Stanton

(Encyclopedia) Blatch, Harriet Stanton (Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch), 1856–1940, American labor reformer and woman suffrage leader, b. Seneca Falls, N.Y. A daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady…