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Clyde Martin REED, Congress, KS (1871-1949)

Senate Years of Service: 1939-1949 Party: Republican REED Clyde Martin , a Senator from Kansas; born near Champaign, Champaign County, Ill., October 19, 1871; moved with his family to Labette…

NCAA Division I Leaders: Pitching

Earned Run Avg.(At least 50 inn.) Cl Gm IP ERASonny Garcia, Texas SouthernJr.1466.01.77Randy Wolf, PepperdineJr.17121.01.79Andy Smith, Bowling GreenSr.1687.11.85Jay Akin, Arkansas St.Sr.18110…

The Little Peasant

The Little Peasant There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He had not even so much as a cow, and…

Gordon Parks Biography

Gordon Parks American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composerBorn: Nov. 30, 1912Birthplace: Fort Scott, Kansas   Best known as an acclaimed photographer, Gordon Parks was also a highly…

Chauncey Judd: Returning From Mill

The Tories Returning From Mill Halloo, youngster! give me ride, said a young man bearing a musket, and having a military sash around his waist, at the same time springing into the…

Brewer's: Grey from Grief

Ludovico Sforza became grey in a single night. Charles I. grew grey while he was on his trial. Marie Antoinette grew grey from grief during her imprisonment. (See Gray.) Source:…

Brewer's: Grey Wethers

These are huge boulders, either embedded or not, very common in the “Valley of Stones” near Avebury, Wilts. When split or broken up they are called sarsens or sarsdens. Source:…