The 2017 Emmy nominations are out! Did your favorite show make it onto the Emmy list?
This year Westworld on HBO and Saturday Night Live on NBC tied for the title of most nominations. Both earned…
(Encyclopedia) Harpers Ferry, town (2020 pop. 285),
Jefferson co., easternmost W Va., at the confluence of the Shenandoah and
Potomac rivers; inc. 1763…
(Encyclopedia) wapitiwapitiwŏpˈĭtē [key], large North American deer, Cervus canadensis, closely related to the Old World red deer. It is commonly called elk in America although the name elk is used…
(Encyclopedia) Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759–1846, American author, b. Boston. Under her pseudonym, Philenia, she wrote such works as Ouâbi: Or the Virtues of Nature (1790), a sentimental Native…
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(Encyclopedia) chipmunk, rodent of the family Sciuridae (squirrel family). The chipmunk of the E United States and SE Canada is of the genus Tamias. The body of the common Eastern chipmunk, Tamias…
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(Encyclopedia) soot, black or dull brown deposit of fine powder resulting from incomplete combustion of fuel of high carbon content, e.g., coal, wood, and oil. It consists chiefly of amorphous carbon…
