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	Sir Henry Morgan Sir Henry Morgan 1635?-1688, Welsh buccaneer. In his youth he went to the West Indies, eventually joining the buccaneers there. On the death (1667) of Edward Mansfield , Morgan took his place as commander of the buccaneers. He operated as a privateer, and was commissioned in his activities by the... Read more
	Association of Southeast Asian Nations Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), organization established by the Bangkok Declaration (1967), linking the nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Subsequently, Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos (1997), Myanmar (1999), and Cambodia (1999) were admitted;... Read more
	Performance-Enhancing Drugs CHAPTER 9 PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS The spirit of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, the body and the mind. Doping is contrary to the spirit of sport, erodes public confidence and jeopardises the health and well-being of athletes. —World Anti-Doping Agency The word doping... Read more
	Womens education CHAPTER 2 WOMEN'S EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT The number of years of education an American receives changed drastically over the twentieth century. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the Digest of Education Statistics: 2006 (July 2007,... Read more
	Samarra Samarra , town, N central Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is on the site of an ancient settlement and has given its name to a type of Neolithic pottery of the 5th millennium BC The present town was founded (836) by the Abbasid caliphs. Samarra's 17th-century, golden-domed mosque complex, sacred to... Read more
	Obituaries Obituaries The following people, appearing in volumes 1–27 of the Encyclopedia of World Biography, have died since the publication of the second edition and its supplements. Each entry lists the volume where the full biography can be found. ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO (born 1912), Italian... Read more
	Pervez Musharraf Pervez Musharraf , 1943-, Pakistani army officer, president of Pakistan (2001-), b. Delhi. After the partition of British India, his family resettled in Karachi, Pakistan; he spent (1949-56) some of his childhood in Turkey, where his father was posted as a diplomat. He entered the Pakistan Military... Read more
	Iwo Jima Iwo Jima , officially Iwo To , volcanic island, c.8 sq mi (21 sq km), W Pacific, largest and most important of the Volcano Islands . Mt. Suribachi, 546 ft (166 m) high, on the south side of the island, is an extinct volcano. The main industries were formerly sulfur mining and sugar refining, but... Read more
	Michael Moore Michael Moore 1954-, American documentary filmmaker, author, and sociopolitical activist, b. Flint, Mich. After working as an alternative print and radio journalist, he embarked on a career as a highly personal, populist, frequently polarizing, and increasingly controversial documentary filmmaker.... Read more
	Berlin Wall Berlin Wall 1961-89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later along the entire border between East Germany and West Germany. At first constructed of barbed wire, the wall was built to halt large numbers of... Read more