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Fund for UFO Research Fund for UFO Research
Fund for UFO Research Founded in the District of Columbia in 1979 to provide grants for UFO research and public education. The chairman since its beginning has been physicist Bruce Maccabee. It reviews research proposals and approves those that promise to advance scientific knowledge and public... Read more
battles of Lexington and Concord battles of Lexington and Concord
battles of Lexington and Concord opening engagements of the American Revolution , Apr. 19, 1775. After the passage (1774) of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament, unrest in the colonies increased. The British commander at Boston, Gen. Thomas Gage , sought to avoid armed rebellion by... Read more
Joe DiMaggio Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio (Joseph Paul DiMaggio) , 1914-99, American baseball player, b. Martinez, Calif. One of the most charismatic of 20th-century sports figures, "Joltin' Joe" joined the New York Yankees of the American League in 1936 and quickly rose to stardom, winning the league's batting title with... Read more
Magic Johnson Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson (Earvin Johnson, Jr.), 1959-, African-American basketball player, b. Lansing, Mich. After winning the national championship with Michigan State Univ. (1979), he joined the Los Angeles Lakers and with them won five National Basketball Association championships (1980, 1982, 1985,... Read more
Cambrian Explosion Cambrian Explosion
Cambrian Explosion The Cambrian Explosion, known informally as Biology's Big Bang, refers to the event that greatly increased the variety of animal species and created the major types of animals that exist today. Scientists refer to this event as an "explosion" not because it... Read more
Earl Lovelace Earl Lovelace
Lovelace, Earl July 13, 1935 The writer Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, in 1935 and grew up in Tobago. He was educated in Tobago, Trinidad, and the United States, and in 1964 he won the British Petroleum Independence Literary Award with the manuscript of While Gods Are Falling... Read more
nursery rhymes nursery rhymes
nursery rhymes verses, generally brief and usually anonymous, for children. The best-known examples are in English and date mostly from the 17th cent. A popular type of rhyme is used in "counting-out" games, e.g., "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo." The subject matter of the rhymes has been linked... Read more
Waverly J. Person Waverly J. Person
Waverly Person 1927— Geophysicist As director of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) in Golden, Colorado, Waverly Person is often one of the first experts called upon for information and advice when natural disasters strike. A veteran seismologist and... Read more
Spanish-American War Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War 1898, brief conflict between Spain and the United States arising out of Spanish policies in Cuba. It was, to a large degree, brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists. Causes of the War Demands by Cuban patriots for independence from Spanish rule made U.S.... Read more
United States Law Week United States Law Week
United States Law Week is a two‐volume looseleaf service, devoted in part to Supreme Court decisions and news and published commercially, on a weekly basis, by the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., of Washington, D.C. The “Supreme Court” volume of U.S. Law Week issues the full... Read more

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