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Dollar Sign

The Question: Where did the dollar sign originate? The Answer: Based on the study of old manuscripts, it appears to have originated with an abbreviation for "pesos." In revolutionary times-…

communication

(Encyclopedia) communication, transfer of information, such as thoughts and messages, as contrasted with transportation, the transfer of goods and persons (see information theory). The basic forms of…

Fourth of July by the Numbers

Census facts for July 4, 2016 Source: U.S. Census Bureau Related Links National Hot Dog Month BBQ Primer Immigration Immigrants to U.S. by Country of Origin Ethnic Concentrations in…

Biographies of the Presidents

  Read bios on all of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama. George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison…

Crispus Attucks

American revolutionary patriotBorn: c. 1723Birthplace: Boston Of mixed African and American Indian ancestry, Attucks was the slave of William Brown of Framingham, Mass. Attucks escaped around 1750…

Samuel CHASE, Congress, NY (1838)

CHASE, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born in Cooperstown, N.Y., birth date unknown; district attorney of Otsego County, 1821-1829; elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth…

CHASE, Samuel, Congress, NY (1838)

CHASE, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born in Cooperstown, N.Y., birth date unknown; district attorney of Otsego County, 1821-1829; elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth…

David WHITE, Congress, KY (1785-1834)

WHITE, David, a Representative from Kentucky; born in 1785; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Castle, Ky.; member of the State…

nutrition

(Encyclopedia) nutrition, study of the materials that nourish an organism and of the manner in which the separate components are used for maintenance, repair, growth, and reproduction. Nutrition is…