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Top 5 Roller Coasters

Here's the Information Please list of the top 5 roller coasters: Alpengeist, Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA. Hold on to your bratwurst. The Alpengeist is the world's fastest (67 mph) and tallest (…

Tom Berenger Biography

Tom Berenger actorBorn: 5/31/1950Birthplace: Chicago Known for his rugged good looks, he played the part of the insecure TV star in The Big Chill (1983) and the battle-tough sergeant in Platoon…

Maitland, Frederic William

(Encyclopedia) Maitland, Frederic WilliamMaitland, Frederic Williammātˈlənd [key], 1850–1906, English legal historian, educated at Cambridge. A thorough scholar, he founded the Selden Society for the…

Writers

  Achebe, Rousseau, Yourcenar, and more A-B | C | D-F | G-H | I-L | M-N | O-P | R-S | T-Z   Achebe, Chinua Adams, Henry Addison, Joseph Aesop Agee, James Agnon, S. Y. Alcott,…

1999-00 Season Recap

Tour deux Lance Anyone who thought that Lance Armstrong was a fluke, a one-hit wonder, a flash in the pan or whatever, had to reevaluate in 2000. The man who beat cancer and the rest of the…

Cayce, Edgar

(Encyclopedia) Cayce, EdgarCayce, Edgarkās [key], 1877–1945, American folk healer, b. Hopkinsville, Ky. A popularizer of the idea of reincarnation, he was active as a “psychic diagnostician” between…

Kandinsky, Wassily

(Encyclopedia) Kandinsky, Wassily or VasilyKandinsky, Wassily or Vasilykăndĭnˈskē, Rus. vəsēˈlyē kəndyēnˈskē [key], 1866–1944, Russian abstract painter and theorist. Usually regarded as the…

Corman, Roger William

(Encyclopedia) Corman, Roger William, 1926-, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, b. Detroit, Mi., Stanford Univ. (B.S., 1947). Corman…

Texas Rodeo History

Top of Page Source: iStockRodeo— not only is this a competitive sport with incredibly talented riders and trainers, but it's also a thrilling whirlwind of high-stakes maneuvers that keep spectators…

Brewer's: Harridan

A haggard old beldame. So called from the French haridelle, a worn-out jade of a horse. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HarrierHarpocrates A B C D E F…