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1975 Radio & Records All-Time Charts
1975 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsPop“Love Will Keep Us Together” Captain and Tennille (A&M)“Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong” B.J. Thomas (ABC)“Wildfire” Michael Murphey (Epic…April 2009 Current Events: Business/Science News
U.S. News | World News Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of April 2009. Unemployment Rate Reaches 8.5%; 663,00 Jobs Lost in March (Apr. 3): The government reports…kangaroo
(Encyclopedia) kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the…2003 Deaths: A - F
Lucian AdamsGiovanni AgnelliIvan AllenIdi AminCholly AtkinsRobert AtkinsGeorge AxelrodHank BallardAlan BatesDavid BloomLuciano BerioFreddie BlassieJanko BobetkoBobby BondsAnita BorgRobert…crossbill
(Encyclopedia) crossbill, bird of the genus Loxia, in the finch family. Its bill, crossed at the tips, is specialized for pulling apart pine cones and picking out the seeds. Crossbills are found in…Gascoigne, George
(Encyclopedia) Gascoigne, GeorgeGascoigne, Georgegăskoinˈ [key], c.1539–1577, English author, a pioneer in various fields of English literature. A reckless, dissipated youth, he left Cambridge…giant pouched rat
(Encyclopedia) giant pouched rat, terrestrial African rodent of the genus Cricetomys. Found in a wide variety of habitats, including farmland, in sub-Saharan Africa north of South Africa, giant…harp seal
(Encyclopedia) harp seal, crested earless, or true, seal, Phoca groenlandica, found in the N Atlantic around Greenland and the White Sea. In the spring, harp seals migrate southward to assemble in…decadents
(Encyclopedia) decadents, in literature, name loosely applied to those 19th-century, fin-de-siècle European authors who sought inspiration, both in their lives and in their writings, in aestheticism…dingo
(Encyclopedia) dingodingodĭngˈgō [key], wild dog (Canis lupus dingo) of Australia, believed to have been introduced thousands of years ago from SE Asia by the aboriginal settlers of that continent;…Trending
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