(Encyclopedia) Fort DuquesneFort Duquesnedəkānˈ, d&oomacr;– [key], at the junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, on the site of Pittsburgh, SW Pa. Because of its strategic location, it…
(Encyclopedia) Rodney, Walter,
1942–1980, Scholar and revolutionary, b. Georgetown, British Guiana.
Ph.D. School of African and Oriental Studies, 1966…
(Encyclopedia) Broad, Eli, 1933-2021, American
financier and philanthropist, Bronx, N.Y., Michigan State College (BA,
1954). Broad was the son of poor…
(Encyclopedia) Kakutani, Shizuo, 1911–2004, Japanese mathematician, b. Osaka, Japan, grad. Tohoko Univ, Ph.D. Princeton, 1941. Kakutani repatriated to Japan during World War II, but returned to…
Pixar hopes for another special-effects coup with A Bug's Life. Adam Sandler portrays another hapless hero in Touchstone's The Water Boy. Colonies of another kind — those inhabited by ants —…
(Encyclopedia) Lee, Stan, 1922–2018, American comic-book writer and editor, co-creator of a number of iconic American superheroes, b. New York City as Stanley Martin Lieber. At 17 he was hired by…
The Americans with the most net worth
America's ten wealthiest people are collectively worth more than the lowest two-thirds of Americans. Their ranks are populated by the founders of major internet…
Spot, Ernie, and India go to Washington by Holly Hartman This article was posted on February 4, 2000. Socks on the podium in the White House briefing room. The former First Cat belongs to…
