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Brian MacQuarrie, The Boston Globe, 2006-10-06 [http://www.boston ... means to repair old tomes."] The Boston Globe (October 6, 2006). Retrieved ...

labor union leader, famous for her work in Boston, where she organized women ... a journalist working for the Boston Globe. The couple had three ...

as several state holidays, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord ... Day game to start even earlier] The Boston Globe, December 22, 2006. ...

The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines ... Created by Abe Saperstein in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, the Globetrotters ...

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which included the acquisition of the Boston Globe by the New York Times ... The Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times Company) and the Boston ...

journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures to ... The censorship lasted well past his death, as Dreiser did not live ...

Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910 ... science awards and scholarships in his name. The IR52 Jang Young Sil Award ...

French cuisine and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families ... as well as a regular column for The Boston Globe newspaper. ...

was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American stage and ... in 1958 and 1960. Perkins was featured on the cover of the March 3, 1958 ...

evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, the Mount Hermon ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...

and novelist who made a transition from the golden age of American live ... Chayefsky worked in the media of radio, television and film but is ...

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giving aid to Britain, according to the Boston Globe of Sunday November 10 ... journalists, Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe and Ralph Coglan of ...

as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the ... A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military ...

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quot;Brandeis pulls artwork…," The Boston Globe (May 3, 2006). ... Harvard names 1st woman president,] The Boston Globe, February 11, 2007. ...

Indiana and was named for Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of ... where her parents opened a drive-in movie theater on the corner of ...

The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...

Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several ... The pumpkin fruit and flowers, while advancing the plant's own ...

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The Rev. Dr William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687 – ... Trained in the medical profession and turning later in life to the ...

31, 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also ... He had an instrumental role in the formation of the two largest Hollywood ...

Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... Plagiarism is not necessarily the same as copyright infringement, ...

|endowment = US $9.98 billion [http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2 ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ...

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having directed several great classic films, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt ... put it. Paul Newman once called Huston "the eccentric's eccentric ...

years, during which time he helped to define the genre of musical films. In ... During his long career he also worked with some of the great composers ...

viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and characterized ... about one million deaths annually during the 1990s and a fatality rate ...

The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded ... The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some ...

on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder ... attention, with critics accusing the prosecution and presiding ...

and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... during World War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he ...

from successfully serving all its citizens. The Compact OED defines "nation ... The modern state is relatively new to human history, emerging after ...

Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous ... With its speed and agility, the fisher is a remarkable predator that ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... Indians receive federal recognition] The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 7, 2007. ...

was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l ... In the 1960s Capp changed his politics from liberal to conservative ...

The American Library Association (ALA) is a library association in ... 6th-grade book stirs rethinking] The Boston Globe, accessdate 2006-11-14 ...

The term soft drink—more commonly known as soda, pop, or soda pop ... (though not always) carbonated. By contrast, the term "hard drink" ...

who pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier ... of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball ...

:This article is about the French mathematician and physicist. For ... and government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best ...

that constituted satirical criticism of the Communist regime in Russia ... * title=In a perfect world|author=Joshua Glenn|publisher=The Boston ...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...

colonial officials. His minute resulted in the policy of only funding education ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking educated ...

The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over ... Granada contains the beautiful Alhambra palace, a gem of Islamic architecture ...

activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is considered ... feminist visionary, dies at 85.] The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 1, 2007. ...

Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...

[[Image:Millais-Blind Girl.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|"The Blind ... Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change ... Silver iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) are the most commonly ...

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... ), is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional ...

Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health ... approach to child development; at 88] The Boston Globe, September 29, 2005 ...

– 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 ...

of privilege, promise, and pain] The Boston Globe, February 15, 2009. ... ambitions, then, Chappaquiddick] The Boston Globe, February 17, 2009. ...

Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... Dalai Lama's American religion]. The Boston Globe. retrieved 15 June 2007 ...

on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and ... economist, dies]. – Obituary in the Boston Globe, April 30, 2006 ...

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 ...

William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... perseverance and patience to overcome the many setbacks and defeats ...

(May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... The Boston Globe, Mary Robinson: Human Rights Crusader. ...

and a Grammy Award nomination―making him the only Canadian recipient of ... arrived at his 'Station'] The Boston Globe, January 31, 2010. Retrieved ...

and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training ... A dominant feature of most planetariums is the large, dome-shaped ...

Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements ...

interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...

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 ...

activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private ... The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ...

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 ...

of popular comic strip superheroes 'The Phantom', and 'Mandrake ... Falk also contributed to a series of novels about the 'Phantom ...

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... The original Native American tribes in the area were the Algonquian ...

Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...

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 ...

political, and ecclesiological impulses of the Protestant Reformation. The ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...

The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...

), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... Whatever the reason, an October 13, 2006, article in The Boston Globe ...

The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") ... is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ...

An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through ... illness, pain, or irregular heartbeats. On the other hand, electric shock ...

passage of new Medicare drug benefit] The Boston Globe, November 25, 2003. ... Utah senator backs NYC mosque] The Boston Globe, September 1, 2010. ...

A stele, often Anglicized as stela, plural stelae (from the Greek ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...

Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous ... Magnolia species are native to the Western Hemisphere (eastern North ...

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 ...

Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ... At the same time, the rise of computer technology, and particularly ...

novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Dumbing down American readers] The Boston Globe, September 24, 2003 ...

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 ...

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ... ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French ...

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 ...

The Ganges (also Ganga Devanāgarī: hi|गंगा ) is a major river ... _threatens_to_dry_up_ganges/ The Boston Globe] ==Notes== ...

Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manatee is the common name for large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine ... #039;s Narragansett Bay, as cited by The Boston Globe. According to Memphis ...

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 ...

Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys ... The most common pattern among the migratory birds of Europe and North ...

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...

Altman has frequently been a favorite with most of the best critics ... have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film ...

dramatist famous for his plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second of ... Born the second of five children, and only boy, to Anne and Arthur ...

U.S. 483 (1954), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ... not hold Roberts's opinions], The Boston Globe, Peter S. Canellos, ...

The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period ...

A Law Review breakthrough] The Boston Globe (February 15, 1990) ... At Harvard Law, a unifying voice] The Boston Globe, January 28, 2007. Retrieved ...

Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... Says Settlers Incited Riot In Hebron] The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 2, 2007. ...

The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as ... Founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon ...

of developed countries' involvement in the developing world. Critics ... Artists abetting genocide?] The Boston Globe. Retrieved August 20, 2008. ...

former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...

American football, known in the United States simply as football, ... American football descended from rugby football, played in the United ...

The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... The Gaia hypothesis was developed by atmospheric scientist and chemist ...

In his acting, he gave a new life to some of the greatest classics in the English ... Shy in private, he played roles that dominated the stage and screen ...

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... if" ideas that often relate to the extremes of human behavior ...

The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without ... who captured the Castle |newspaper=The Boston Globe |pages=C4, C8 |date ...

:"The World Wide Web" and "WWW" redirect here. ... The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ...

socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-twentieth century. Widely ... “Friedrich the Great”] The Boston Globe January 11, 2004. Retrieved ...

is best known for In Cold Blood (1965) and the novella, Breakfast at Tiffany ... aunt, Marie Rudisill, became known as "The Fruitcake Lady" on the ...

The Great Pyramid is the oldest and the largest of the three pyramids ... The enormity of the Great Pyramid poses a challenge for any who would ...

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... leading Virginia troops in support of the British Empire during the ...

) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It is ... to global economic growth and to the development of numerous modern ...

), known previously as the Uddhav Sampraday, is a Hindu sect established ... Under the leadership of Swaminarayan, the movement gained strength ...

The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...

Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... Jerome Kagan by Christopher Shea, The Boston Globe, August 29 2004. ...

use a lariat so well that he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ... By the mid-1930s, Rogers was beloved by the American people and was ...

and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the sensual ... sexually graphic passages. However, the Boston Globe stated: "James ...

and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published ... inspired readers, influenced market] The Boston Globe, September 28, 2005 ...

At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... The U.S. ended its occupation in part to bolster its efforts in the ...

(August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler ... Advancing the Bhutto Legacy,] The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 14, 2008. ...

I. Due to his interest in magic and the occult, he also devoted much ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...

in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... the Pashtun poetess]. Leela Jacinto, The Boston Globe, May 22, 2005. retrieved ...

Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... low-lying, with some higher regions in the island's interior. The ...

and ethnic persecution, in particular with the expulsion of Asians from Uganda ... support, while his promise to improve the economy, schools, health care ...

from April 22, 1509, until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor ... Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed ...

was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from ... Advancing the Bhutto Legacy.] The Boston Globe, January 16, 2008. Retrieved ...

"keys" that, when pressed, lead to the printing of characters on ... For much of the twentieth century, typewriters were indispensable ...

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Spain led European global exploration and colonial expansion in the ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...

McCain's military record"]. The Boston Globe, May 7, 2008. Retrieved ... center of power, seeking the summit] The Boston Globe, June 21, 2003. Retrieved ...

a basketball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules ... Points are scored by passing the ball through the basket from above; ...

The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...

thoughts, feelings, or dreams related to the events, mental or physical ... Covering all the bases for veterans] The Boston Globe (May 2, 2016). Retrieved ...

colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...

multinational corporation, is consistently the world's largest auto ... employs approximately 284,000 people around the world. With global headquarters ...

American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...

The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... HMS Endurance was dispatched to remove the camp on March 25, but was ...

is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... Once the largest city in Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto ...

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... After Jesuits introduced Western astronomy into China during the seventeenth ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...

Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the ... Structural engineers are most commonly involved in the design of buildings ...

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...

or thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth) or naturally replenished ... The term renewable energy is often used interchangeable with alternative ...

of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public ... Wal-Mart Giant Can Be Tamed]." The Boston Globe Retrieved November 3, 2008. ...

has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... #039; plays on old hatreds", The Boston Globe (April 10, 2004). ...

Remembering Michael |newspaper= The Boston Globe |date= June 27, 2009 ... at the presidential gala |newspaper= The Boston Globe |date= January 20, 1992 ...

– January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American ... Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...

The Philippine-American War was an armed military conflict between ... The conflict officially ended on July 4, 1902. Sharon Delmendo, The ...

::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material ...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...

jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... says no plans to leave Supreme Court] The Boston Globe, August 3, 2010. Retrieved ...

form, source, or technology differing from the current popular forms, sources ... The term alternative energy also is used for energy derived from sources ...

Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... in accord with nature and natural law. On the other hand, many cultures ...

, was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... by reports in the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, citing anonymous sources ...

El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually ...

French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...

:This article is about the mineral. {{Infobox mineral | name = Diamond ... Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ...

was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... law firm before becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In ...

as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time ... his career, Pelé was adept at striking the ball with either foot in addition ...