Underground RailroadsA short history of subterranean transport in America
by Dan Shafto The interior of a women's car on the early New York subway. Modern systems not only integrate the…
(Encyclopedia) Albright, Madeleine, 1937–2022, American government official, b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, as Maria Jana Körbel. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1948, and she…
(Encyclopedia) Newhouse, Samuel Irving, 1895–1979, American newspaper and magazine publisher, b. New York City as Solomon Neuhaus, known generally as Sam. From 1922 to the 1970s, his Advance…
(Encyclopedia) transit, in astronomy, passage of a body across a meridian or passage of a small body across the visible disk of a larger one. (The passage of a large body across a smaller one is…
Those who surrounded Bonds during his most successful seasons
by Mark Zurlo Related Links Barry Bonds Biography Bond's Homerun Record Discredited by Many Steroids Allegedly Used by…
Senate Years of Service: 1946-1946Party: DemocratBURCH, Thomas Granville, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born on a farm near Dyerâs Store, in Henry County, Va., July 3, 1869;…
(Encyclopedia) AtbaraAtbaraătˈbärä [key], river, NE Africa, rising in NW Ethiopia and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to the Nile at Atbarah, Sudan; before entering Sudan it forms the Eritrean-Ethiopian…
(Encyclopedia) MalolosMalolosmälōˈlōs [key], city (1990 pop. 125,178), capital of Bulacan prov., SW Luzon, the Philippines, N of Manila. It is an old marketing center for surrounding farms. The…
