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Amy Lowell: The Trumpet-Vine Arbour

The Trumpet-Vine ArbourThe throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats against the hot sunlight. They bray and blare at the burning sky. Red! Red…

Amy Lowell: Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Madonna of the Evening FlowersAmy LowellAll day long I have been working, Now I am tired. I call: "Where are you?" But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind. The house is very…

Amy KLOBUCHAR, Congress, MN (1960)

Senate Years of Service: 2007- Party: Democrat KLOBUCHAR Amy , a Senator from Minnesota; born in Plymouth, Minn., May 25, 1960; attended the public schools in Plymouth; graduated magna cum laude…

Rhode Island, University of

(Encyclopedia) Rhode Island, University of, at Kingston; coeducational; land-grant and state-supported; chartered 1888, opened as a school 1890, as an agricultural and mechanical college 1892. From…

District of Columbia, University of the

(Encyclopedia) District of Columbia, University of the, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; land-grant and federally supported; est. 1976 with the merger of three existing colleges; predominantly…

General Grant National Memorial

(Encyclopedia) General Grant National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).

Fletcher v. Peck

(Encyclopedia) Fletcher v. Peck, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1810, involving the Yazoo land fraud. The court ruled that an act of the Georgia legislature rescinding a land grant was…

Virginia State University

(Encyclopedia) Virginia State University, at Petersburg; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1882 as a normal and collegiate institute, opened 1883, became a normal and…

Entertainment News from June 2000

1Comedian Bob Hope, 97, is rushed to a California hospital and undergoes emergency intestinal surgery.2Willie Fulgear, the 61-year-old Los Angeles resident who was rewarded with $50,000 after…