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- [[Image:Millais-Blind Girl.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|"The Blind ... Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ...25 KB (3,643 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
- Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters ... in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s, and rose to fame ...61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
- 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America ... library_may_get_new_chapter].The Boston Globe. accessdate 2007-03-19 ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change ... Silver iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) are the most commonly ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... ), is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health ... approach to child development; at 88] The Boston Globe, September 29, 2005 ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 15:08, 25 January 2023
- – February 27, 2006) was best known as the publisher of the Los Angeles ... L.A. Times into a leading paper]. The Boston Globe. * [http://www.nytimes ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 04:45, 18 November 2022
- of privilege, promise, and pain] The Boston Globe, February 15, 2009. ... ambitions, then, Chappaquiddick] The Boston Globe, February 17, 2009. ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... Dalai Lama's American religion]. The Boston Globe. retrieved 15 June 2007 ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and ... economist, dies]. – Obituary in the Boston Globe, April 30, 2006 ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English ... as an actor, writer, and part owner of the acting company the Lord Chamberlain ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... perseverance and patience to overcome the many setbacks and defeats ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- (May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... The Boston Globe, Mary Robinson: Human Rights Crusader. ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training ... A dominant feature of most planetariums is the large, dome-shaped ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- and a Grammy Award nomination―making him the only Canadian recipient of ... arrived at his 'Station'] The Boston Globe, January 31, 2010. Retrieved ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...18 KB (2,655 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
- The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper ... L.A. Times into leading paper"] The Boston Globe, February 28, 2006 ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private ... The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ... languages and Haley won a Special Award from the Pulitzer Board in 1977. Roots ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- of popular comic strip superheroes 'The Phantom', and 'Mandrake ... Falk also contributed to a series of novels about the 'Phantom ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... The original Native American tribes in the area were the Algonquian ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- is not distinctly due to her race (because the business does not discriminate ... The term was coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in a 1989 essay ...43 KB (5,848 words) - 10:41, 6 March 2024
- political, and ecclesiological impulses of the Protestant Reformation. The ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- ), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... Whatever the reason, an October 13, 2006, article in The Boston Globe ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") ... is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through ... illness, pain, or irregular heartbeats. On the other hand, electric shock ...22 KB (3,364 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- passage of new Medicare drug benefit] The Boston Globe, November 25, 2003. ... Utah senator backs NYC mosque] The Boston Globe, September 1, 2010. ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- A stele, often Anglicized as stela, plural stelae (from the Greek ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous ... Magnolia species are native to the Western Hemisphere (eastern North ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is renowned for its ... The Boston Globe, [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/08 ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ... At the same time, the rise of computer technology, and particularly ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Dumbing down American readers] The Boston Globe, September 24, 2003 ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary ... that might not otherwise be bridged. From the realm of art music into more ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ... ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted ... Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- The Ganges (also Ganga Devanāgarī: hi|गंगा ) is a major river ... _threatens_to_dry_up_ganges/ The Boston Globe] ==Notes== ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... by this time had become the editor of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine) wrote ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor ... films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- screenwriter, novelist, and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio ... Death of a Salesman, with Lee J. Cobb in the leading role in the first ...26 KB (3,942 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- A consumption tax is a tax on spending on goods and services. The ... of goods and services. It usually takes the form of an indirect tax, such ...30 KB (4,669 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- Manatee is the common name for large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine ... #039;s Narragansett Bay, as cited by The Boston Globe. According to Memphis ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... Chase|date=July 23, 2006|publisher=The Boston Globe|url=http://www.boston ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys ... The most common pattern among the migratory birds of Europe and North ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
