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Channing, William Ellery

(Encyclopedia) Channing, William Ellery, 1780–1842, American Unitarian minister and author, b. Newport, R.I. At 23 he was ordained minister of the Federal St. Congregational Church in Boston, where…

Winton, Sir Nicholas George

(Encyclopedia) Winton, Sir Nicholas George, 1909–2015, British stockbroker who saved the lives of several hundred Czech children on the eve of World War II, b. London as Nicholas George Wertheim (…

Parker, Theodore

(Encyclopedia) Parker, Theodore, 1810–60, American theologian and social reformer, b. Lexington, Mass. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836 and was pastor (1837–46) of the Spring Street…

Boethius

(Encyclopedia) BoethiusBoethiusbōēˈthēəs [key], BoetiusBoetiusbōēˈshəs [key], or BoeceBoethiusbōēsˈ [key] (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius), c.475–525, Roman philosopher and statesman. An honored…

byliny

(Encyclopedia) bylinybylinybĭlēˈnē [key] [Rus.,=what has happened], Russian scholarly term first applied in the 1840s to a great body of narrative and heroic poems. They are called by the folk…

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Evonne Goolagong CawleyBorn: July 31, 1951Australian tennis player won Australian Open 4 times, Wimbledon twice (1971,80), French once (1971).Steve CauthenA - CFlorence Chadwick

Scoring a Baseball Game

The Question: Why is "K" used to score strikes in baseball? The Answer: According to Total Baseball, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Baseball,…

Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt ChamberlainBorn: Aug. 21, 1936Basketball C consensus All-America in 1957 and '58 at Kansas; Final Four MOP in 1957; led NBA in scoring 7 times and rebounding 11 times; 7-time All-NBA…

brutalism

(Encyclopedia) brutalism or new brutalism, architectural style of the late 1950s and 60s that arose in reaction to the lightness, polish, and use of glass and steel that had come to characterize the…