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Spring Training 1998

For the first time in Major League Baseball history 30 franchises have migrated south to Florida and Arizona to participate in spring training. That's because two new teams, the Tampa Bay…

2000 Olympics: Fencing

MEN Individual Epée: 1. Pavel Kolobkov, RUS def. 2. Hugues Obry, FRA (15-12); 3. Lee Sang-Ki, S. Kor. def. Marcel Fischer, SWI (15-14). Team Epée: 1. Italy def. 2. France (39-38); 3. Cuba def.…

Thomas Staples MARTIN, Congress, VA (1847-1919)

Senate Years of Service: 1895-1919Party: DemocratMARTIN, Thomas Staples, a Senator from Virginia; born in Scottsville, Albemarle County, Va., July 29, 1847; attended the Virginia Military…

Lynn SCHENK, Congress, CA (1945)

SCHENK, Lynn, a Representative from California; born in the Bronx, New York City, January 5, 1945; attended public schools in New York City and Los Angeles; graduated from Hamilton High School…

John Strode BARBOUR, Jr., Congress, VA (1820-1892)

Senate Years of Service: 1889-1892Party: DemocratBARBOUR, John Strode, Jr., (son of the John Strode Barbour), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at “Catalpa,” near Culpeper…

Thomas Andrew DASCHLE, Congress, SD (1947)

Senate Years of Service: 1987-2005Party: DemocratDASCHLE, Thomas Andrew, a Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Aberdeen, S. Dak. on December 9, 1947; attended private and…

Samuel Shethar PHELPS, Congress, VT (1793-1855)

Senate Years of Service: 1839-1851; 1853-1854Party: Whig; WhigPHELPS, Samuel Shethar, a Senator from Vermont; born in Litchfield, Conn., May 13, 1793; graduated from Yale College in 1811;…

Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo

(Encyclopedia) Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo, 1919–2005, Japanese-American internment protester, b. Oakland, Calif. He was a shipyard welder when, after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor in 1942,…