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Timeline: Social Media

Key dates in the evolution and increasing influence of social media by Jennie Wood 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011…

Scott, Paul

(Encyclopedia) Scott, Paul (Paul Mark Scott), 1930–78, British author, b. London. He joined the British army in 1940 and served in India, Burma, and Malaya from 1943 to 1946. His observations of the…

Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia) Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st BaronLugard, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baronl&oomacr;gärdˈ [key], 1858–1945, British colonial administrator. After an early…

Bill W.

(William Griffith Wilson)founder of Alcoholics AnonymousBirthplace: East Dorset, VermontBorn: 1895Died: 1971

Joyce, William

(Encyclopedia) Joyce, William, 1906–46, British Nazi propagandist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., called Lord Haw-Haw. Taken to England as a child, Joyce became involved there in the fascist movement. He went to…

Westminster, Statute of

(Encyclopedia) Westminster, Statute of, 1931, in British imperial history, an act of the British Parliament that gave formal recognition to the autonomy of the dominions of the British Empire and was…

Super PACs Explained

The evolution of the new political action committees that have altered the course of political campaigns Related Links How a President is Nominated and Elected Democratic Party…

Michael Scheuer, 2004 News

senior CIA officer, lashed out at the panel that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He called the panel and the CIA “bureaucratic cowards” for not holding an agency or…

Jutland, battle of

(Encyclopedia) Jutland, battle of, only major engagement between the British and German fleets in World War I. They met c.60 mi (100 km) west of the coast of Jutland. On May 31, 1916, a British…

W. Mark Felt, 2005 News

former No. 2 official at the FBI, in May revealed himself to be “Deep Throat,” the anonymous source who leaked information to Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward about…