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Scientists: Earth Sciences

// //]]> Notable Scientists: Earth Sciences Geologists, geographers, naturalists, oceanographers, and paleontologists Jump to a category:…

Members of Congress: Alabama, Congress,

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Alabama Member Name Birth-Death ABERCROMBIE, James 1795-1861 ABERCROMBIE, John William 1866-1940 ADERHOLT, Robert 1965- …

Members of Congress: Illinois, Congress,

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Illinois Member Name Birth-Death ADAIR, Jackson Leroy 1887-1956 ADAMS, George Everett 1840-1917 ADKINS, Charles 1863-1941…

The Governors of the Fifty States

  Below is a list of the governors from all fifty states as well as the dates of their terms. State Governor Current term1 Ala. Robert Bentley (R) 2011–2015 Alaska Sean…

Changing Views of Free Speech in the U.S.

Many Americans, including many who supported the new Constitution, criticized the document because it lacked a bill of rights—a listing of the basic rights held by people against the new national…

Plymouth Colony

(Encyclopedia) Plymouth Colony, settlement made by the Pilgrims on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620. After several years the colonists could no longer be restrained from settling on the more…

Calhoun, John Caldwell

(Encyclopedia) Calhoun, John CaldwellCalhoun, John Caldwellkălˌh&oomacr;nˈ [key], 1782–1850, American statesman and political philosopher, b. near Abbeville, S.C., grad. Yale, 1804. He was an…

Other 2004 Summer Olympic Games Champions

ArcheryMen's individual—Marco Galiazzo, ItalyMen's team—South KoreaWomen's individual—Sung Hyun Park, South KoreaWomen's team—South KoreaBadmintonMen's singles—Taufik Hidayat, IndonesiaMen's…

Texas

(Encyclopedia) CE5 TexasTexastĕkˈsəs [key], largest state in the coterminous United States. It is located in the south-central part of the country and is bounded by Oklahoma, across the Red River…