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NFL Football Preview 2000: NFC East

  NFL Preview: NFC East Washington, Dallas, NY Giants, Arizona, Philadelphia   by Mike Morrison   1. Washington—If a player was available in the offseason,…

March Madness: 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball

The Favorites  Connecticut got a scare in the first round of the Big East tournament with a one-point win over Seton Hall, which should be enough to wake them up for their tourney run.…

NFL Football Preview 1999: Editor's Picks

Editors' Picks Gerry's Picks AFC Champion - Jacksonville JaguarsNFC Champion - Minnesota VikingsSuper Bowl Champion - Minnesota Vikings Mike's Picks AFC Champion - New York…

miniature painting

(Encyclopedia) miniature painting [Ital.,=artwork, especially manuscript initial letters, done with the red lead pigment minium; the word originally had no implication as to size]. In a general sense…

Mühlenberg, Heinrich Melchior

(Encyclopedia) Mühlenberg, Heinrich MelchiorMühlenberg, Heinrich Melchiormĕlˈkhēôr müˈlənbĕrk [key], 1711–87, American Lutheran clergyman, b. Germany, educated at Göttingen and at Halle. He arrived (…

infinity

(Encyclopedia) infinity, in mathematics, that which is not finite; it is often indicated by the symbol ∞. A sequence of numbers, a1, a2, a3, … , is said to “approach infinity” if the numbers…

Comanche

(Encyclopedia) ComancheComanchekəmănˈchē [key], Native North Americans belonging to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languages…

Kansas City, Mo.

Mayor: Sylvester "Sly" James, Jr. (to 2015)City Manager: Troy Schulte (apptd. November 2009)2010 census population (rank): 459,787 (37); Male: 2223,183 (48.5%); Female: 236,604 (51.5%); White: 272…

Progressive party

(Encyclopedia) Progressive party, in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. At Philadelphia in…