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British Parliament: The Stamp Act

The Stamp ActBritish Parliament1765 An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the…

Biggest

Land mammal: African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Marine mammal: The blue whale is the world's biggest animal, even larger than any…

2001 Recap

Lewis giveth and taketh away It was one swing that took Lennox Lewis' world heavyweight championship belts in an April meeting with unheralded Baltimore puncher Hasim Rahman. And it was one punch…

The Book of Job

Job Ch. 1: There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was… Ch. 2: Again there was a day when the sons of God came… Ch. 3: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his… Ch. 4: Then Eliphaz…

Apocrypha

(Encyclopedia) ApocryphaApocryphaəpŏkˈrĭfə [key] [Gr.,=hidden things], term signifying a collection of early Jewish writings excluded from the canon of the Hebrew scriptures. It is not clear why the…

Darius I

(Encyclopedia) Darius I (Darius the Great)Darius Idərīˈəs [key], d. 486 b.c., king of ancient Persia (521–486 b.c.), called also Dariavaush and Darius Hystaspis (after his father, Hystaspes or…

Thanksgiving by the Numbers

Find out how many turkeys are raised for Thanksgiving, how many pounds of potatoes Americans consume around the holiday, and how many pies will be produced by U.S. Census Bureau Related Links…