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…
(Encyclopedia) Jennings, city (1990 pop. 11,305), seat of Jefferson Davis parish, SW La., on the Mermentau River; inc. 1888. Cotton and rice are grown, there is a bottling plant, and drugs, machinery…
(Encyclopedia) gaillardiagaillardiagālärˈdēə [key], any plant of the genus Gaillardia of the Asteaceae family (aster family), including annual, biennial, and perennial herbs with showy heads of red…
(Encyclopedia) Hevesy, Georg vonHevesy, Georg vongāˈôrkh fən hĕˈvĕshē [key], 1885–1966, Hungarian physicist and chemist. He received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the use of…
(Encyclopedia) Huber, RobertHuber, Roberth&oomacr;ˈbər [key], 1937–, German biochemist. After receiving his doctorate at Munich Technical Univ., he worked both there and at the Max Planck…
(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Leonora, 1917–2011, English-born Mexican surrealist painter, novelist, and eccentric, studied art at Ozenfant Academy, London (1935–38). From a wealthy Anglo-Irish family,…
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLESSPAGHETTIFICATIONFIND OUT MOREWhen the biggest stars explode as supernovas, their cores collapse in on themselves under gravity to become black holes. These regions…
Restaurateur Joe Thum created America's first bowling organization on Sept. 9, 1895, when he pulled together representatives of various regional bowling clubs and formed the American Bowling…
