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Strategic Defense Initiative
(Encyclopedia) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), former U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic…Bunker Hill, battle of
(Encyclopedia) Bunker Hill, battle of, in the American Revolution, June 17, 1775. Detachments of colonial militia under Artemas Ward, Nathanael Greene, John Stark, and Israel Putnam laid siege to…President-Elect Bush
When Bush takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2001, he will be the fourth president to have triumphed in the electoral college but to have lost the popular vote. The others were John…Brewer's: Beggar's Bush
To go by beggar's bush, or Go home by beggar's bush — i.e. to go to ruin. Beggar's bush is the name of a tree which once stood on the left hand of the London road from Huntingdon to Caxton…Brewer's: Ivy Bush
Like an owl in an ivy-bush. Having a sapient, vacant look, as some persons have when in their cups; having a stupid vacant stare. Owls are proverbial for their judge-like solemnity, and…Henry Fountain ASHURST, Congress, AZ (1874-1962)
Senate Years of Service: 1912-1941 Party: Democrat ASHURST Henry Fountain , a Senator from Arizona; born in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., September 13, 1874; moved with his parents to Arizona…Webb, Walter Prescott
(Encyclopedia) Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888–1963, U.S. historian, b. Panola co., Tex. He joined the faculty of the history department at the Univ. of Texas in 1918, received his Ph.D. in 1932, and…Palm Springs
(Encyclopedia) Palm Springs, city (1990 pop. 40,181), Riverside co., S Calif.; founded 1876, inc. 1938. It is a verdant desert oasis and a resort with classic mid-20th cent. architecture (known as…The True George Washington: Soldier: Strategy
StrategyStrikingly at variance with these personal qualities of courage and hot blood is the "Fabian" policy for which he is so generally credited, and a study of his military career goes far…George Voinovich, 2005 News
politician, was the lone Republican senator to take a firm stand against John Bolton, President Bush's nominee to become U.S. ambassador to the UN. In May, Voinovich urged his colleagues to…Trending
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