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Women Artists

  Georgia O'Keeffe Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…

Women Educators and Scholars

  Ruth Fulton Benedict Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers…

Washington, DC

Created municipal corporation: Feb. 21, 1871 Mayor: Muriel Bowser (to Dec. 2018) Motto: Justitia omnibus…

Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children

Source: National Education Association (NEA). Web: www.nea.org/readacross/resources/catalist.html . This list was compiled from an online survey by the NEA in 2007. See also Kids' Top 100 Favorite…

Classical Mythology: Don't Try This at Home!

Don't Try This at Home!Classical MythologyAchilles: The Angry Young HeroDon't Try This at Home!To War!The Final Battles Thetis—a minor goddess perhaps, but still a goddess—was not content to have a…

Rákóczy

(Encyclopedia) RákóczyRákóczyräˈkôtsĭ [key], noble Hungarian family that played an important role in the history of Transylvania and Hungary in the 17th and 18th cent. Sigismund Rákóczy, 1544–1608,…

Wives and Children of the Presidents

Wives and Children of the Presidents This table displays data about the spouses of U.S. Presidents, including the years of birth, death, and marriage, as well as the gender and number of children…

Types of Volcanoes

—Robert I. Tilling Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geologists generally group volcanoes into four main kinds—cinder cones, composite volcanoes,…

Hughes, Charles Evans

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Charles EvansHughes, Charles Evanshy&oomacr;z [key], 1862–1948, American statesman and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910–16), U.S. secretary of…