World News | Business/Science News
Here are the key events in United States news for the month of January, 2009.
Richardson Withdraws Nomination for secretary of commerce (Jan. 4): Governor Bill…
Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says: Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare…
Senate Years of Service: 1995-2001
Party: Republican GRAMS Rod , a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Princeton,
Mille Lacs County, Minn., February 4, 1948; attended public…
(Encyclopedia) triangle, in music, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle, open at one angle, and struck with a steel rod. Only since the end of the 18th cent. has it…
World News | Business/Science News
Here are the key events in United States news for the month of April 2009.
Charges Against Ted Stevens Dropped (Apr. 1): The Justice Department moves to drop…
World News | Business/Science News
Here are the key events in United States news for the month of February, 2009.
Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal Win Australian Open (Feb. 1): American Serena…
(Encyclopedia) electroscope, device for detecting electric charge invented by Nollet in 1748. There are various types of electroscopes. The most common has a cylindrical metal case closed by two…
