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Of Beasts and Bludgers

Get ready for two new books from Hogwarts by Holly Hartman This article was posted on January 20, 2000. The fourth Harry Potter book has just been released in Germany. Visit the Harry Gallery…

Entertainment News from April 2000

3Actor-director-producer Edward Burns is set to buy the late John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Tribeca apartment for around $2.5 million. The apartment has been up for sale since the publisher died in a…

Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder I

Landholder IOliver Ellsworth5 November 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land. The writer of the following passed the first part of his life in mercantile employments, and by Industry and…

Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 9, 1959)

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the 86th Congress, my fellow citizens: This is the moment when Congress and the Executive annually begin their cooperative work to build a better America.…

Heath, Sir Edward Richard George

(Encyclopedia) Heath, Sir Edward Richard George, 1916–2005, British statesman. Educated at Oxford, he served in the Royal Artillery during World War II, rising to the rank of colonel. He was elected…

wild rice

(Encyclopedia) wild rice, tall aquatic plant (Zizania aquatica) of the family Poaceae (grass family), of a genus separate from common rice (Oryza). Wild rice (called also Canada rice, Indian rice,…

How Does Capital Flight Affect Me?

Anyone who has invested in the stock market - and that's a whopping 43% of American households - can tell you that the American economy is not an island unto itself. Even those who had invested…

oil industry

(Encyclopedia) oil industry, the business of discovering oil (petroleum), extracting it from the ground, refining it into a variety of products, and distributing it to the public. The development of…

utility, public

(Encyclopedia) utility, public, industry required by law to render adequate service in its field at reasonable prices to all who apply for it. Public utilities frequently operate as monopolies in…