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Top of Page World News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…Facts About Elections
Candidate with highest popular vote: Reagan (1984), 54,455,075.Candidate with highest electoral vote: Reagan (1984), 525.Candidate carrying most states: Nixon (1972) and Reagan (1984), 49.…Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 2003 News
retired teacher, announced in December that she's the daughter of the late Strom Thurmond, former staunch segregationist. Thurmond's family confirmed that the late senator from South…The Devil's Dictionary: Enthusiasm
by Ambrose Bierce ENTERTAINMENTENVELOPEENTHUSIASM -n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered…Rocky <span class="date" >(1976)</span>
Director: John G. AvildsenCast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers and Burgess Meredith Stallone's intense portrayal of the punk fighter with a once-in-a-lifetime shot…First to cross the Panama Canal
The Question: What boat was the first to cross the Panama Canal? The Answer: The first boat to cross the Panama Canal once it was opened was…1900 – 1909 World History
Sigmund Freud(1856–1939)Leo Baeck Inst./Archive PhotosHenri Matisse (1869–1954)The Library of Congress Picture CollectionW.E.B. Du Bois(1868–1963)The Library of Congress Picture…Biographies: Deaths of 2016
// Cite Deaths of 2016 See also 2015 Deaths 2014 Deaths 2013 Deaths 2012 Deaths 2011 Deaths More Deaths Related Links 2016 Current Events Biographies by Category Arts and…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: January 31, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark January 30, 1806February 1, 1806January 31, 1806 Saturday January 31st 1806. Sent a party of eight men up the river this morning to renew their…John Donne: Expostulation X. Lente et serpenti
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I have been told, and told by relation, by her own brother that did it, by thy servant Nazianzen, that his sister in the vehemency of her prayer, did…Trending
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