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World Wars

Homework Center – Frequently Asked Questions Wars WWI, WWII, & the Holocaust World War I Encyclopaedia of the First World War The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century…

Showa Shinzan

Distributor:National Film Board of Canada A young Japanese girl experiences both the tragedy of World War II and the power of a volcanic eruption. Based on actual events, this 3-D computer animated…

Leroy Grumman

Born: 1895 Retractable Landing Gear; Folding Wing. In 1929, Grumman designed an aircraft featuring retractable landing gear. He went on to design several of the outstanding warplanes of World War…

Jimmy Cannon

Born: 1910Tough, opinionated New York sportswriter and essayist who viewed sports as an extension of show business protégé of Damon Runyon; covered World War II for Stars & Stripes.Died: Dec. 5…

Potsdam

(Encyclopedia) PotsdamPotsdampŏtsˈdăm [key], city (1994 pop. 139,262), capital of Brandenburg, E Germany, on the Havel River, near Berlin. It is an industrial center and rail junction. Manufactures…

Charles P. Ginsburg

Born: 1920 Videotape recorder—After World War II audio tape recorders were run at very high speeds to record the very high frequency television signals. Ginsburg developed a new machine that ran…

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Born: Jan. 26, 1880Controversial U.S. general of World War II and Korea president of U.S. Olympic Committee (1927-28); college football devotee, National Football Foundation MacArthur Bowl (for No.…

Algebra: Climb Aboard the Coordinate Plane

Climb Aboard the Coordinate Plane Algebra Graphing Linear Equations Climb Aboard the Coordinate Plane Sketching Line Graphs It's a Slippery Slope Kinky Absolute Value Graphs Thanks to a fun-…

Anatomy and
Physiology: Where It All Happens

Where It All HappensAnatomy and PhysiologyThe Excretory SystemWaterworksWhere It All HappensReabsorptionWhen You Gotta Go … Are you a coffee addict? I have to get up very early because the first…

Andronicus I

(Encyclopedia) Andronicus I (Andronicus Comnenus)Andronicus Iăndrənīˈkəs kŏmnēˈnəs [key], 1120?–1185, Byzantine emperor (1183–85), nephew of John II. He acceded to the throne by strangling his cousin…