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Professional Football: 1998-99 Season Recap

Over and Out You're 39 years old and you've just quarterbacked your team to two consecutive Super Bowl victories. What could possibly be left for an encore? According to John Elway, absolutely…

Football Hall of Fame: Players

Abell, Earl—Colgate, 1915Agase, Alex—Purdue/Illinois, 1946Agganis, Harry—Boston Univ., 1952Albert, Frank—Stanford, 1941Aldrich, Chas. (Ki)—Texas Christian, 1938Aldrich, Malcolm—Yale,…

Antonio de Almeida Biography

Antonio de Almeidaconductor, musicologist authority on Offenbach; influential in reviving the works of Massenet, Duparc and Chausson Born: 1928Died: 1997William Alland1997 DeathsEugenie M.…

Cleveland Amory 1998 Deaths

Cleveland Amory Age: 81 self-described curmudgeon and author of several best-selling books who devoted his life to promoting animal rights.Died: Oct. 14, 1998.Eric Ambler A - FHarry Anderson…

Frank Annunzio 2001 Deaths

Frank AnnunzioAge: 86 former U.S. congressman who served in the House for 28 years. A Democrat, Annunzio was first elected in 1964 and served on the former Banking Committee.Died: Lincolnwood…

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

(Encyclopedia) Sacco-Vanzetti CaseSacco-Vanzetti Casesăkˈō-vănzĕtˈē [key]. On Apr. 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Mass., and his guard were shot and killed by two men…

Lawrence, T. E.

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward Lawrence), 1888–1935, British adventurer, soldier, and scholar, known as Lawrence of Arabia. While a student at Oxford he went on a walking tour of Syria…

muon

(Encyclopedia) muonmuonmy&oomacr;ˈŏn [key], elementary particle heavier than an electron but lighter than other particles having nonzero rest mass. The name muon is derived from mu meson, the…

mammal

(Encyclopedia) mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. In the majority of…

Wilder, Thornton Niven

(Encyclopedia) Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897–1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Yale (B.A., 1920), Princeton (M.A., 1925). He received most of his early education in China…