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2006 News of the World

—Borgna Brunner   Sudan's Ongoing Massacre In 2006, the three-year-old conflict in Darfur escalated, with the Janjaweed—the pro-government Arabic militias—slaughtering black villagers and rebel…

NATO Rallies for Kosovo

1999 News of the World Years of unrest in Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo erupted into war in the spring of 1999. Formerly an autonomous province in Tito's Yugoslavia, Kosovo was stripped of self-…

Black Hawk Biography

Black Hawk MacataimeshekiakiakSauk leaderBorn: 1768Birthplace: Saukenuk, Ill. In the late 18th century, the Indians of the upper Mississippi Valley witnessed the replacement of the relatively…

1949 College Basketball Recap

Final AP Top 10Other NCAA & NIT Tournament TeamsMajor Conference ChampionsNCAA Tournament (8 teams)NIT Tournament (12 teams)Player of the YearConsensus All-America With four-fifths of the…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 34

Part 34Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,) 'Tis the tale…

The Revolutionary War

Conflicts increase between colonists and Britain on western frontier because of royal edict limiting western expansion (1763) and regulation of colonial trade and increased taxation of…

Fouché, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Fouché, JosephFouché, Josephzhôzĕfˈ f&oomacr;shāˈ [key], b. 1759 or 1763, d. 1820, French revolutionary and minister of police. A teacher in the schools of the Oratorian order, he…