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The First Ambulance Service

The Question: Who invented the ambulance vehicle? The Answer: Vehicles used to transport soldiers injured during battle date back to 11th…

The Inventor of Basketball

The Question: Who invented basketball? The Answer: Basketball is one of the few popular sports with a definite known origin. In 1891, Dr. James Naismith invented…

A Pill with a Purpose

A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology, led by S. George Djorgovski, may have glimpsed the dawn of our universe. In Aug. 2001, this team reported that it had spotted the “…

August Current Events 2024: US News

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…

The Devil's Dictionary: Digestion

by Ambrose Bierce DIEDIPLOMACYDIGESTION -n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer…

The Devil's Dictionary: R.i.p.

by Ambrose Bierce RIOTRITER.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters…

Different Classes of Upanishads

Different Classes of UpanishadsThe ancient Upanishads, i.e. those which occupy a place in the Samhitâs, Brâhmanas, and Âranyakas, must be, if we follow the chronology which at present is…

U.S. Societies & Associations (N)

NAFSA: Association of International Educators (1948): 1307 New York Ave. N.W., 8th Flr., Washington, D.C. 20005-4701. 8,000+. Phone: (202) 737-3699. www.nafsa.org. National Abortion and…

September 11: People in the News

Related Links September 11, 2001AfghanistanTerrorismThe TalibanAl-QaedaWho's Who in Afghanistan al-Zawahiri, Dr. Ayman, al-Qaeda's theological leaderAshcroft, John, U.S. attorney generalAtef,…