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Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson Biography

Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson Susannahsurvivor of the AlamoBorn: circa 1814Birthplace: possibly Williamson County, Tenn. Dickinson grew up poor and illiterate. When she was 15, she married…

Mary Ann Shadd Cary Biography

abolitionistBorn: 10/9/1823Birthplace: Wilmington, DelawareDied: 1893 (Washington, D.C.) The oldest of 13 children born to Harriet and Abraham Shadd, leaders of the…

husband and wife

(Encyclopedia) husband and wife, the legal aspects of the married state (for the sociological aspects, see marriage). The former Anglo-American law of marriage was chiefly characterized by the view…

Predictions

Related Links Official NCAA tournament siteInfoPlease College Basketball siteNCAA Division I College Basketball Schools, Conferences, Nicknames and CoachesESPN.com tournament siteDuke is head and…

Destiny's Child Biography

Destiny's ChildR&B band Beyoncé Knowles, TaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland, and LeToya Luckett first came together as rap singing tots under the management of Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Time: Sunset.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Dramatis PersonaeNote on Hellas, by Mrs. ShelleyTime: Sunset. Time: Sunset. Scene: A terrace on the Seraglio. Mahmud sleeping, an indian slave sitting beside…

plutonium

(Encyclopedia) plutoniumplutoniumpl&oomacr;tōˈnēəm [key], radioactive chemical element; symbol Pu; at. no. 94; mass no. of most stable isotope 244; m.p. 641℃; b.p. 3,232℃; sp. gr. 19.84 at 20℃;…

Gore, Bush, and Oprah

To woo voters, the candidates hit the talk show circuit by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco This article was posted in September, 2000. It's not only CNN and Sunday morning political shows for…

February 2004 Disasters

Feb., Canada, U.S., and Europe: Record cold and record snowfalls in the month of February were seen: blizzard conditions in North Dakota, exceedingly heavy snowfalls in North Carolina, and…