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Towns with Women's Names

Girls Across America by Holly Hartman From Tracy, California, to Chelsea, Vermont, the map of the United States is dotted with girls' names. Here are a few. Allison, Iowa Amy, Kansas…

Bury, John Bagnell

(Encyclopedia) Bury, John BagnellBury, John Bagnellbăgˈnəl by&oobreve;ˈrē [key], Irish historian, an authority on the Byzantine Empire. He was professor at the Univ. of Dublin from 1893 to 1902…

Black Basketball Players

  Notable African-American Basketball Players       Browse by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…

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…

vaudeville

(Encyclopedia) vaudevillevaudevillevôdˈvĭl [key], originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar…

Best-Selling Children's Books, 2004

Source: Publishers Weekly.HardcoverThe Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events #11),Lemony Snicket; illustrated by Brett HelquistsantaKid, James Patterson; illustrated by Michael GarlandMister…

La Tour, Georges de

(Encyclopedia) La Tour, Georges deLa Tour, Georges dezhôrzh də lä t&oomacr;r [key], 1593–1652, French painter. By 1618 he was settled at Lunéville, in his native Lorraine. He bore the title of…

Lead B

(Encyclopedia) Lead Belly, nickname of Huddie William Ledbetter, 1885–1949, American singer, b. Mooringsport, La. While wandering through Louisiana…