—by Eleanor MayfieldSource: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Once upon a time, we didn't know anything about fat except that it made foods tastier. We cooked our food in lard or shortening. We…
(Encyclopedia) ergonomics, the engineering science concerned with the physical and psychological relationship between machines and the people who use them. The ergonomicist takes an empirical…
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Text1 of the Constitution of the United States
Preamble
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic…
(Encyclopedia) Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, mainly at Baton Rouge; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1853, opened as a state seminary…
(Encyclopedia) Kelley, Mike (Michael Kelley), 1954–2012, American artist, b. Wayne, Mich., studied Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.F.A., 1976), California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A., 1978). At…
(Encyclopedia) Graham, Sylvester, 1794–1851, American reformer and Presbyterian minister, b. West Suffield, Conn. He advocated a vegetable diet as a cure for intemperance and the use of coarsely…
