SILL, Thomas Hale, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Windsor, Conn., October 11, 1783; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in…
Godzilla takes on the Russians by Mike Morrison Boston's Joe Thornton rifles a slap shot towards Capitals' goalie Olaf Kolzig from point blank range in the opening round of the playoffs. As…
(Encyclopedia) Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831–99, American paleontologist, b. Lockport, N.Y., grad. Yale, 1860. He studied abroad, and from 1866 served at Yale as the first professor of paleontology…
(Encyclopedia) LeMay, Curtis EmersonLeMay, Curtis Emersonləmāˈ [key], 1906–90, U.S. general, b. Columbus, Ohio. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. army air corps in 1930, he advanced…
(Encyclopedia) Vendler, Helen Hennessy, 1933–, American poetry critic, b. Boston, Ph.D. Harvard, 1960. One of America's most lucid critics of poetry, uniquely adept at close reading, she is also…
(Encyclopedia) United Empire Loyalists, in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution, migrated from the Thirteen Colonies to Canada.…
(Encyclopedia) Somerville. 1 City (1990 pop. 76,210), Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential and industrial suburb of Boston, on the Mystic River; settled 1630, set off from Charlestown 1842, inc. as…
(Encyclopedia) Bigfoot or Sasquatch, large apelike creature reportedly sighted hundreds of times in the United States and Canada (most often in the Pacific Northwest) since the mid-19th cent. Similar…
Below is the composition of the 113th Congress' House of Representatives, following the 2012 election. In the following lists, the numeral indicates the congressional district represented…
