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Dixie Chicks Biography

Dixie Chickscountry-music group The all-girl band from Dallas started out with a traditional country sound, but personnel changes and a more contemporary country sound earned them their…

1996-97 Season: High School Players to enter NBA

PlayerPro careerTony Kappen1946-47Connie Simmons1946-56Joe Graboski1948-62Reggie Harding1963-68Moses Malone1974-95Bill Willoughby1975-84Darryl Dawkins1975-89Kevin Garnett1995—Kobe Bryant1996—…

1972–1973 Obie Awards

Best American PlayJoseph A. Walker, The River NigerLanford Wilson, The Hot L BaltimoreBest Foreign PlaySamuel Beckett, Not IPeter Handke, KasparDistinguished PlaysJ.E. Gaines, What if It Had…

Whittier, John Greenleaf

(Encyclopedia) Whittier, John GreenleafWhittier, John Greenleafhwĭtˈēər [key], 1807–92, American Quaker poet and reformer, b. near Haverhill, Mass. Whittier was a pioneer in regional literature as…

tower

(Encyclopedia) tower, structure, the greatest dimension of which is its height. Towers have belonged to two general types. The first embodies practical uses such as defense (characteristic of the…

oratory

(Encyclopedia) oratory, the art of swaying an audience by eloquent speech. In ancient Greece and Rome oratory was included under the term rhetoric, which meant the art of composing as well as…

Royal Society

(Encyclopedia) Royal Society, oldest scientific organization in Great Britain and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1660 by a group of learned men in London who met to promote scientific…

restaurant

(Encyclopedia) restaurant, a commerical establishment where meals can be bought and eaten. In the 16th cent. English inns and taverns began to serve one meal a day at a fixed time and price, at a…