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Most Popular Names

Find the most popular baby names given each year to boys and girls in the United States from 1880 to the present. Visit the Interactive Baby Name Finder for more popular baby names. Boys…

Women's Suffrage: Two Amendments and Many Women

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Politics After the WarThe Woman's Hour that Never CameTwo Amendments and Many WomenAt the annual woman suffrage convention of 1872, Miss…

Thomas Ray HAMER, Congress, ID (1864-1950)

HAMER Thomas Ray , a Representative from Idaho; born in Vermont, Fulton County, Ill., May 4, 1864; attended the public schools, Hedding College, and Bloomington Law School; was admitted to the bar…

Hermits Through History

by Elissa Haney Walden; Or, Life in the Woods Related Topics Hermits Saint Anthony. Many scholars agree that Saint Anthony, an Egyptian monk who lived from about A.D. 251 to 350, was the first…

Geneva Conference

(Encyclopedia) Geneva Conference, any of various international meetings held at Geneva, Switzerland. Some of the more important ones are discussed here. 1 International conference held Apr.–July,…

Greenville

(Encyclopedia) Greenville. 1 City (2020 pop. 29,670, seat of Washington co., W Miss., on Lake Ferguson, a deepwater harbor adjoining the Mississippi…

Annapolis, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Annapolis Annapolis ənăpˈəlĭs [key], city (2020 pop. 40,812), state capital and seat of Anne Arundel co., central Md., on the south bank of the Severn River…

Yorktown campaign

(Encyclopedia) Yorktown campaign, 1781, the closing military operations of the American Revolution. After his unsuccessful Carolina campaign General Cornwallis moved into Virginia to join British…

Ono, Yoko

(Encyclopedia) Ono, Yoko, 1933- , Japanese-American conceptual artist, songwriter, and recording artist, b. Tokyo, Japan. Ono’s father was a banker…

Teen Idols of the 90s

Teen Idols of the 90s Right here, right now by Beth Rowen Leo and his ilk are riding high now, but will they be able to fend off the remorseless advance of obscurity? Anthony…