(Encyclopedia) KadunaKadunakäˌd&oomacr;näˈ [key], town (1991 est. pop. 302,000), N Nigeria. A commercial and industrial center of N Nigeria, Kaduna has cotton-textile, beverage, and furniture…
(Encyclopedia) Cleaver, Eldridge (Leroy Eldridge Cleaver), 1935–98, African-American social activist, b. Wabbaseka, Ark. Growing up in Los Angeles, he spent much of 1954–66 in prison for various…
(Encyclopedia) Tyne and Wear, former metropolitan county, NE England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Newcastle upon Tyne conurbation and comprised five…
(Encyclopedia) Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1820–61, Irish explorer of Australia. After service in the Belgian and Austrian armies he went (1853) as inspector of police to Melbourne. In 1860, with W. J.…
(Encyclopedia) Watts, residential section of south central Los Angeles. Named after C. H. Watts, a Pasadena realtor, the section became part of Los Angeles in 1926. Artist Simon Rodia's celebrated…
Read about landmark cases that have changed history, from Marbury v. Madison to the challenge to Obamacare. 1803Marbury v. Madison was the first instance in which a law passed by Congress was…
Heather Mills, an activist and former model, gained fame in 1999 when she began dating legendary musician Paul McCartney. The two announced their engagement in July of 2001, and were married in…
The so-called Fox Chase Boy was an unknown child found dead in 1957 in a vacant lot in the Philadelphia community of Fox Chase. The blue-eyed and blonde-haired boy was estimated to be between 3 and 5…
Robert Peel was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1834-35, and again from 1841-46. Peel entered politics in 1809 as a member of the House of Commons. Although he had fought against Catholic…
