Kipchoge (Kip) KeinoBorn: Jan. 17, 1940Kenyan runner policeman who beat USA's Jim Ryun to win 1,500m gold medal at 1968 Olympics; won again in steeplechase at 1972 Summer Games; his success…
History and Government > U.S. Elections Below lists the members of the Senate in the United States' 112th Congress following the November 2010 midterm elections.…
Historical BackgroundIn the aftermath of Reconstruction, which ended in 1877, the Southern State governments again became-as they remained in the North-“white man's governments.“ The new…
ever-incarcerated Whitewater figure, was charged with embezzlement and tax fraud in a case unrelated to the Arkansas land deal. The latest charges were brought by conductor Zubin Mehta and…
Robbie Tilley Branscum children's author Branscum's books, which include Toby, Granny and George,The Murder of Hound Dog Bates: A Novel and Me and Jim Luke recall her experiences growing up…
Mr. WizardFat Possum/Epitaph Junior Kimbrough's labelmate on Fat Possum, R. L. Burnside is another Mississippi hill country-bluesman rescued from obscurity in the early '90s. His seminal Fat…
Trio II
Asylum
For a long while, it seemed like this follow-up to the million-selling 1987 collaboration between Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton would never see the light of…
