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Limbaugh, Rush
(Encyclopedia) Limbaugh, Rush (Rush Hudson Limbaugh 3d) Limbaugh, Rush lĭmˈbô [key], 1951–…Croswell case
(Encyclopedia) Croswell caseCroswell casekrôzˈwəl, krôsˈwĕl [key], U.S. court case involving freedom of the press. In 1803, Harry Croswell, the editor of the Wasp of Hudson, N.Y., was convicted of…Dablon, Claude
(Encyclopedia) Dablon, ClaudeDablon, Claudeklōd däblôNˈ [key], 1619?–1697, French Jesuit missionary in North America. He went from France to Canada in 1655 and worked first among the Onondaga Indians…Church, Frederick Edwin
(Encyclopedia) Church, Frederick Edwin, 1826–1900, American landscape painter of the Hudson River school, b. Hartford, Conn., studied with Thomas Cole at Catskill, N.Y. He traveled and painted in…Catskill Mountains
(Encyclopedia) Catskill Mountains, dissected plateau of the Appalachian Mt. system, SE N.Y., W of the Hudson River. This glaciated region, wooded and rolling, with deep gorges and many waterfalls, is…Tyrrell, Joseph Burr
(Encyclopedia) Tyrrell, Joseph BurrTyrrell, Joseph Burrtĭrˈəl [key], 1858–1957, Canadian explorer and geologist, b. Ontario. In 1881 he joined the Canadian Geological Survey as an explorer and in…Biddle, George
(Encyclopedia) Biddle, George, 1885–1973, American painter and writer on art, b. Philadelphia. After studying abroad Biddle settled in the 1930s in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he devoted himself to…Watervliet
(Encyclopedia) WatervlietWatervlietwôˌtərvlētˈ, wôˈtərvlētˌ, wŏˈ– [key], industrial city (1990 pop. 11,061), Albany co., E N.Y., on the Hudson River, opposite Troy, near the terminus of the Erie…2007 Grammy Awards
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008. Record: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse Album: River: The Joni Letters, Herbie Hancock Song…Cree
(Encyclopedia) Cree, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They formerly inhabited the…Trending
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