U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: Geography People Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Japan Relations GEOGRAPHYJapan, a country of islands,…
A team of computer scientists and paleontologists from Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Museum has recreated the sound that a Parasaurolophus…
actorBorn: 3/17/1964Birthplace: Charlottesville, Virginia Film actor who was part of the Brat Pack in the early eighties. Appearing in films such as Class (1983) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985) with…
songwriter, producer, singerBorn: 4/10/1959Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and singer who is considered one of the most powerful behind-the-scenes…
writerBorn: 5/6/1942Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Chilean writer and left-wing intellectual who established himself as a novelist, poet, playwright and critic. His family moved to New York…
musicianBorn: 7/22/1940Birthplace: Kannapolis, North Carolina Musician who pioneered the funk style of rock in the 1970s with his band Parliament-Funkadelic. Nicknamed “Dr. Funkenstein,” Clinton is…
civil-rights attorneyBorn: 1895Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Houston, a powerful advocate of civil rights, helped gain ground for the movement by taking the fight to the court system. Houston earned…
lawyer, educator, author, activistBorn: 7/30/1956Birthplace: Lone Tree, Okla. Hill received her law degree from Yale University, and after a stint at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (…
(Encyclopedia) Saco, river, c.105 mi (170 km) long, rising in the White Mts., N central N.H. and flowing SE through Maine to the Atlantic Ocean below Biddeford. The falls at Biddeford, site of a…
