2008 Year in Review
Top events for the nation and the world News and Analysis News of the Nation Historic Presidential Election • Obama Assembles a Centrist…
What is this job like? Do you know where your backyard ends and your neighbor's yard begins? Have you ever wondered how maps are created? These are questions for a surveyor. Surveyors measure and…
(Encyclopedia) Republican party, American political party.
In 1980, the conservative Ronald Reagan, a former supporter of Barry Goldwater, regained the presidency for the Republicans and…
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Rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos
mallow, common name for members of the Malvaceae, a family of herbs and shrubs distributed over most of the world and especially abundant in…
(Encyclopedia) 9/11, the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, in the United States, and the associated events and impact of those attacks.
The attacks, which were carried out by agents of Al Qaeda (a…
Supreme Court Rules Against Considering Race to Integrate Schools: Bitterly divided court rules, 5â4, that programs in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., that tried…
There are images that will stay with us forever. From FDR notifying the world that the U.S. had entered WWII, to Obama's trademark fist bump at the Democratic National Convention, these scenes…
