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Entertainment News from June 1998
1It's a boffo season for Broadway, with record-setting box office and attendance figures for the 1997–1998 season. Mega-hits such as Ragtime and The Lion King propel ticket sales to $557.26…Entertainment News from June 1999
3Variety reports that the B-52s plan to create a cartoon series with Stone Stanley Productions. The band members will voice the characters. “Working with the B-52's is sure to make for colorful and…Entertainment News from June 2000
1Comedian Bob Hope, 97, is rushed to a California hospital and undergoes emergency intestinal surgery.2Willie Fulgear, the 61-year-old Los Angeles resident who was rewarded with $50,000 after…Current Events This Week: June 2023
Top of Page World News | U.S. News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News It's a busy world out there, so that’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories for each week of June 2023…Quatre Bras
(Encyclopedia) Quatre BrasQuatre Braskäˈtrə bräˈ [key], village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, just south of Waterloo. There, on June 16, 1815, in a battle of the Waterloo campaign, the…Kléber, Jean Baptiste
(Encyclopedia) Kléber, Jean BaptisteKléber, Jean BaptistezhäN bätēstˈ klābĕrˈ [key], 1753–1800, French general, b. Strasbourg. A trained architect, he attended military school in Munich and served in…Anderson, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Anderson, Robert, 1805–71, American army officer, defender of Fort Sumter, b. near Louisville, Ky., grad. West Point, 1825. He fought in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican wars and…Marengo, battle of
(Encyclopedia) Marengo, battle of, a major engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought on June 14, 1800, at the village of Marengo in Piedmont, N Italy. Determined to throw the Austrians back…Fort Pillow
(Encyclopedia) Fort Pillow, fortification on the Mississippi River, N of Memphis, Tenn.; built by Confederate Gen. Gideon Pillow in 1862. Evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Island No. 10…Crazy Horse
(Encyclopedia) Crazy Horse, d. 1877, war chief of the Oglala Sioux. He was a prominent leader in the Sioux resistance to white encroachment in the mineral-rich Black Hills. When Crazy Horse and his…Trending
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