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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Encyclopedia) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore…hooks, bell
(Encyclopedia) hooks, bell, 1952–2021, American author, poet, social critic, and Black feminist, b. Hopkinsville, Ky., as Gloria Jean Watkins, Stanford…Athabascan
(Encyclopedia) AthabascanAthabascanăthəbăsˈkən [key], Athapascan, or AthapaskanAthapaskanboth: –păsˈ– [key], group of related Native American languages forming a branch of the Nadene linguistic…Cotton Belt
(Encyclopedia) Cotton Belt, former agricultural region of the SE United States where cotton was the main cash crop throughout the 19th and much of the 20th cent. Located on the Atlantic and Gulf…cowrie
(Encyclopedia) cowrie or cowrycowrieboth: kouˈrē [key], common name applied to marine gastropods belonging to the family Cypraeidae, a well-developed family of marine snails found in the tropics.…Earhart, Amelia
(Encyclopedia) Earhart, AmeliaEarhart, Ameliaârˈhärt [key], 1897–1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to…Weinberger, Caspar Willard
(Encyclopedia) Weinberger, Caspar WillardWeinberger, Caspar Willardwīnˈbûrgər [key], 1917–2006, U.S. government official, U.S. secretary of defense (1981–87), b. San Francisco, grad. Harvard (1938),…Sun Belt
(Encyclopedia) Sun Belt or Sunbelt, southern tier of the United States, focused on Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California, and extending as far north as Virginia. The term gained wide use in the…vineyard
(Encyclopedia) vineyard, land on which cultivation of the grape—known as viticulture—takes place. As many as 40 varieties of grape, Vitis vinifera, are known. The few that grow wild are generally not…Triple Crown Near Misses
Fifty-two horses have won two legs of the Triple Crown. Of those, sixteen won the Kentucky Derby (KD) and Preakness Stakes (PS) only to be beaten in the…Trending
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