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link See hyperlink. Linux A UNIX®-like, open-source operating system developed primarily by Linus Torvalds. Linux is free and runs on many platforms, including both PCs and Macintoshes. Linux…

1996 Olympics: Weightlifting

119 lbs (54kg): 1. Halil Mutlu, TUR (632.5 lbs); 2. Zhang Xiangsen, CHN (617.29); 3. Sevdalin Minchev, BUL (610.5). 130 lbs (59kg): 1. Teng Ningsheng, CHN (677.75 lbs); 2. Leonidas Sabanis, GRE (…

John Mercer Langston

U.S. public official, diplomat, educatorBorn: 12/14/1829Birthplace: Louisa County, Va. Langston was the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Jane Langston, a Black slave. After his…

Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer

civil rights activistBorn: 10/6/1917Birthplace: Ruleville, Miss. Hamer was the youngest of 20 children and began working with her sharecropper parents at age 6. She left school after the sixth grade…

DK History: The Enlightenment

WHO PUT TOGETHER A GREAT BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE? WHO ABOLISHED GOD? FIND OUT MOREScientific advances of the 17th and 18th centuries encouraged new ideas, and this led European philosophers to declare…

Horace GREELEY, Congress, NY (1811-1872)

GREELEY, Horace, a Representative from New York; born in Amherst, N.H., February 3, 1811; attended the public schools; apprenticed to the art of printing in East Poultney, Vt., 1826-1830;…

Osama bin Laden

Most-wanted terrorist is killed in Pakistan by David Johnson and Beth Rowen Osama bin Laden. (Source/FBI) Related Links Suspected al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts Osama bin Laden is SEALed…

When People Break The Law

Depending on the crime a person has committed, he or she may have broken a federal law, a state law, or both. However, the great majority of crimes committed are state crimes. Criminal laws and…