aviatorBorn: 1902Birthplace: Leicester, England Beryl Markham’s parents moved to Kenya when she was three years old, and she spent most of her life in Africa. Her first love was horses and she…
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsDied: January 27, 2008Best Known as: president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
U.S. President Born: Aug. 4, 1961 Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4, 2008, prevailing over Arizona Senator John McCain…
The 2016 presidential race has been anything but boring. With Donald Trump grabbing headlines on the Republican side and the tight Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, there's…
CAMPAIGN 2000 | THE CANDIDATESSteve Forbes The flat tax man is in for the long haul by Beth Rowen Steve Forbes.This article was posted on December 3, 1999.The Long HaulWINNING THE REPUBLICAN…
(Encyclopedia) Moore, Michael, 1954–, American documentary filmmaker, author, and activist, b. Flint, Mich. A highly personal, populist, and frequently controversial and polarizing documentary…
(Encyclopedia) Murray, Les (Leslie Allan Murray), 1938–2019, Australia's leading poet of the late 20th and early 21st cent., B.A. Univ. of Sydney, 1969. Son of an impoverished dairy farmer, he grew…
(Encyclopedia) mountain laurel, evergreen shrub (Kalmia latifolia) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), closely related to the rhododendron and native to E North America. The state flower of…
(Encyclopedia) loganialoganialōgāˈnēə [key], common name for the Loganiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of warmer climates, including many woody climbing species. Some plants of this…
