Senate Years of Service: 1865-1871 Party: Republican YATES, Richard, (father of Richard Yates [1860-1936]), a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Ky…
(Encyclopedia) LübeckLübecklüˈbĕk [key], city (1994 pop. 217,270), Schleswig-Holstein, central Germany, on the Trave River near its mouth on the Baltic Sea. It is a major port and a commercial and…
(Encyclopedia) Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–95, English potter, descendant of a family of Staffordshire potters and perhaps the greatest of all potters. At the age of nine he went to work at the plant…
(Encyclopedia) Poland, partitions of. The basic causes leading to the three successive partitions (1772, 1793, 1795) that eliminated Poland from the map were the decay and the internal disunity of…
Multiple gold medals: United States (3).Year 1996United States, China, Australia2000United States, Japan, Australia2004 United States, Australia, Japan 2008 Japan, United States, Australia U…
By:Anton ChekhovAdapted by:David HareDirector:Gerald GutierrezSets:John Lee BeattyCostumes:Catherine ZuberLighting:James F. IngallsSound:Aural FixationsOpened:11/97 at the Vivian Beaumont…
