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1998-1999 World Cup All-Star Team

Voting done by FIFA Technical Study Group and announced on July 7 before the July 10 championship game. GK Gao Hong, China GK Briana Scurry, United States D Wang Liping, China D…

Harrison, Lou Silver

(Encyclopedia) Harrison, Lou Silver, 1917–2003, American composer, b. Portland, Oreg. He studied composition in California with Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg. His early work stresses percussion…

marine engine

(Encyclopedia) marine engine, machine for the propulsion of watercraft. The earliest marine power plants, reciprocating steam engines, were used almost exclusively until the early 1900s. In later…

Allende, Isabel

(Encyclopedia) Allende, Isabel, 1942–, Chilean novelist. Since the 1973 coup in which her cousin, President Salvador Allende Gossens, died, Isabel Allende, who is among the most notable contemporary…

Alien and Sedition Acts

(Encyclopedia) Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798, four laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, allegedly in response to the hostile actions of the French Revolutionary government on the…

mushroom

(Encyclopedia) CE5 The poisonous mushroom Amanita mushroom, type of basidium fungus characterized by spore-bearing gills on the underside of the umbrella- or cone-shaped cap. The name toadstool…

relocation center

(Encyclopedia) relocation center, in U.S. history, camp in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military leaders, under authority…

2004–2005 Primetime Emmy Awards

Drama Series: Lost (ABC) Actor: James Spader, Boston Legal Actress: Patricia Arquette, Medium Supporting Actor: William Shatner, Boston Legal Supporting Actress: Blythe Danner, Huff Guest…

Poem: Sweeney Erect

Poem 2 Poem 4 Sweeney Erect And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind me Make all a…