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Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day national holiday in the United States commemorating the Pilgrims ' celebration of the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. The celebration was probably held in October. The neighboring Wampanoags, who outnumbered the... Read more
Maude Adams Maude Adams
Maude Adams 1872-1953, American actress, b. Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father's name was Kiskadden, but she used her mother's maiden name. She began acting at an early age and became leading lady to John Drew under the management of the Frohmans, an assignment that lasted for five years. In 1897 she... Read more
John Augustus Roebling John Augustus Roebling
John Augustus Roebling , 1806-69, German-American engineer, b. Mulhouse. He studied engineering in Berlin and in 1831 came to the United States. He demonstrated the practicability of steel cable and established a plant for manufacturing it at Trenton, N.J. A pioneer in the building of suspension... Read more
John (Milton) Hay John (Milton) Hay
John (Milton) Hay 1838-1905, American author and statesman, b. Salem, Ind. He practiced law at Springfield, Ill., where he met Abraham Lincoln . Hay accompanied Lincoln to Washington and was the President's assistant private secretary until Lincoln's death. The next five years were spent in minor... Read more
50 Cent 50 Cent
50 Cent July 6, 1976 • Queens, New York Rap musician The rapper known as 50 Cent is living proof that hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as it is a type of music. He was a star in the underground mix-tape circuit for several years, but the rest of the world did not hear about him until 2002,... Read more
Traffic regulations Traffic regulations
traffic regulation control of the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, chiefly on city streets. Formal regulation of motor vehicle traffic was instituted in New York City in 1903; a set of Rules for Driving was issued by the police commissioner, and a traffic squad was formed. Similar systems... Read more
siege of Drogheda siege of Drogheda
Drogheda, siege of (Sept. 1649), Oliver Cromwell's first major, and most infamous, action in Ireland. The parliamentarians were anxious to recapture Drogheda, wrested from them the previous July, to prevent a possible juncture between Ormond and Owen Roe O'Neill. The royalist–Confederate... Read more
Cristobal Vaca de Castro Cristobal Vaca de Castro
Oralloossa; or, the Last of the Incas (1832), a tragedy by Robert Montgomery Bird. [Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia), 5 perf.] Having slain the Inca leader Atahualpa, Francisco Pizarro ( Daniel Redd) feels free to tighten his stranglehold on Peru. But he has not reckoned with Atahualpa's son,... Read more
N.M. Stevens N.M. Stevens
STEVENS, NETTIE MARIA(b. Cavendish, Vermont, 7 July 1861; d. Baltimore, Maryland, 4 May 1912)cytology, heredity.Nettie Maria Stevens came from solid New England stock. The first American Stevens came from Chelmsford, England, to Boston; his eldest son went to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1663. The... Read more
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, across the Narrows at the entrance to New York harbor, linking the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Designed by O. H. Ammann , the bridge was completed in 1964. It is the longest suspension bridge in the United States,... Read more

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