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NCAA Football Bowl Championship 1998: Week 3

Week 3: November 11, 1998 Final Week | Week 6 | Week 5 | Week 4 | Week 3 | Week 2 | Week 1 For the third time in as many weeks there is a new team atop the Bowl Championship Series…

Little League World Series Champions

Year Champion Runner-up Score1947 Williamsport, Pa. Lock Haven, Pa. 16–71948 Lock Haven, Pa. St. Petersburg, Fla. 6–51949 Hammonton, N.J. Pensacola, Fla. 5–01950 Houston, Tex. Bridgeport,…

Black History Timeline: 1600s to Present Day

Top of Page Source: Getty ImagesBlack history in the United States of America is a story of discrimination, hate, and violence. For centuries, White people enslaved, murdered, and criminalized an…

civil rights

(Encyclopedia) civil rights, rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than “political rights,” which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually…

Joyce, James

(Encyclopedia) Joyce, James, 1882–1941, Irish novelist. Perhaps the most influential and significant novelist of the 20th cent., Joyce was a master of the English language, exploiting all of its…

England

(Encyclopedia) England, the largest and most populous portion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2022Se pop. 68,429,595), 50,…

Newman, Saint John Henry

(Encyclopedia) Newman, SaintJohn Henry, 1801–90, English churchman, theologian, and writer, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the founders of the Oxford movement, b. London. Newman was…

2005 Murder Rate in Cities

(rate per 100,000 population) The following table shows the murder rate in 100 U.S. cities during 2005. Find city and state names, ranks, and murder rates for select U.S. cities. RankCityMurder…