photographer, filmmakerBorn: 12/05/1970Birthplace: Liverpool, EnglandDied: 4/20/2011 (Misurata, Libya) Tim Hetherington, a photographer and filmmaker, was killed while…
See images of every flag in the world and of each U.S. state. Read a feature on the Irish Flag and check out the U.S. Flag Timeline. Afghanistan to Dominican RepublicEast Timor to…
musicianBorn: April 24, 1967Birthplace: Marysville, Washington At age 11, Patty Schemel learned how to play the drums. By age 15, she had formed her first band, Sybil,…
The Fund for Peace has ranked troubled countries that are in danger of collapse. The countries are ranked according to 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators, including economic…
(Encyclopedia) African languages, geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa,…
(Encyclopedia) Phillips, Wendell, 1811–84, American reformer and orator, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1831; LL.B., 1834). He was admitted to the bar in 1834 but, having sufficient income of his…
