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Elena Tcherkasskaia 2001 Deaths

Elena TcherkasskaiaAge: 64 a 22-year veteran of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, who found additional success in her second career as a figure skating coach to some of the world's elite skaters,…

Tara Lipinski Biography

Tara LipinskiBorn: June 10, 1982Figure Skater won the 1998 women's figure skating gold medal at the Olympics in Nagano, becoming the youngest in history (15 yrs., 7 mos.) to do so; she and…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Sleeping

by EmilyDickinsonLVIRetrospectSleeping Sleeping A long, long sleep, a famous sleep That makes no show for dawn By stretch of limb or stir of lid, — An independent one. Was ever…

industrial management

(Encyclopedia) industrial management, term applied to highly organized modern methods of carrying on industrial, especially manufacturing, operations. Modern technological devices, particularly in…

Ella Maria Gonzalez Alvarez 1998 Deaths

Ella Maria Gonzalez AlvarezAge: 93 a pioneer in women's tennis in Spain; better known as "Lili Alvarez", she ruled Spanish tennis in the 1920s, making it to three consecutive Wimbledon…

Harry Usher 2000 Deaths

Harry UsherAge: 61 attorney and former executive vice president and general manager of the 1984 Olympic Summer Games; teamed with Peter Ueberroth to successfully raise money and organize the…

Nancy Lieberman

Nancy LiebermanBorn: July 1, 1958Basketball 3-time All-America and 2-time Player of Year (1979-80); led Old Dominion to consecutive AIAW titles in 1979 and '80; played in defunct WPBL and…

The Devil's Dictionary: Idiot

by Ambrose Bierce ICONOCLASTIDLENESSIDIOT -n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 13, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 12, 1805March 14, 1805March 13, 1805 13th of March Wednesday 1805 a fine day visited by Mr. Mckinsey one of the Clerks of the N W Companey…