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Adams, Abigail

(Encyclopedia) Adams, Abigail, 1744–1818, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams, b. Weymouth, Mass., as Abigail Smith. A lively, intelligent woman, she married John…

space-time

(Encyclopedia) space-time, central concept in the theory of relativity that replaces the earlier concepts of space and time as separate absolute entities. In relativity one cannot uniquely…

Shays's Rebellion

(Encyclopedia) Shays's Rebellion, 1786–87, armed insurrection by farmers in W Massachusetts against the state government. Debt-ridden farmers, struck by the economic depression that followed the…

Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses

Sierra Leone: Major Players in the Civil War The countries and people involved in the civil war by David Johnson Government of Sierra LeoneAlready the victim of one coup, President Kabbah's grip…

Abraham LINCOLN, Congress, IL (1809-1865)

LINCOLN, Abraham, a Representative from Illinois and 16th President of the United States; born in Hardin County, Ky., February 12, 1809; moved with his parents to a tract on Little Pigeon…

Closest Super Bowls of All Time: XXIII

Jennie Wood 1. XXV  2. XLVII  3. XLII  4. XXXIX  5. XXXVIII  6. XXXVI  7. V  8. XLVI  9. XLIII  10. XXIII  11. XIII  12. X XXIII San Francisco 49ers defeat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16, 1988…

NFL Football Preview 2000: AFC Central

  NFL Preview: AFC CentralTennessee, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Cleveland   by Mike Morrison   1. Tennessee—Last year's 13-3 record and Super Bowl appearance was no…

Rolling Stones

(Encyclopedia) Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great…