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People Who Died in 2007

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War Poems

  Meditations on War   If these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it . . .   Read these renowned poets' thoughts on war, with lines…

Women Scientists

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Notable Actors

Isabella Rossellini See also Filmmakers and Directors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater…

Presidential Rankings

Presidential surveys on the web by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Five Best Presidents Abraham Lincoln Franklin Delano RooseveltGeorge WashingtonTheodore RooseveltHarry S. TrumanFive Worst Presidents…

DK Science: Plant Survival

DEFENCESTOUGH ALPINESHIGH UP ON A HOSTXEROPHYTESHALOPHYTESFIND OUT MORESome plants have special features that help them to repel predators. Other plants can survive and even thrive in hostile…

American Ballet Theatre

(Encyclopedia) American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet…

Cranmer, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Cranmer, ThomasCranmer, Thomaskrănˈmər [key], 1489–1556, English churchman under Henry VIII; archbishop of Canterbury. A lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is said to have come…

Tudor

(Encyclopedia) Tudor, royal family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. Its founder was Owen Tudor, of a Welsh family of great antiquity, who was a squire at the court of Henry V and who married…