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Cambridge, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Cambridge. 1 City (2020 pop. 13,096), seat of Dorchester co., E Md., Eastern Shore, a port of entry on the Choptank River at its mouth…

Something So Right

ABCTuesday 8:30–9:00 p.m.Cast: Mel Harris, Jere Burns, Marne Patterson, Billy L. Sullivan, Emily Ann Lloyd, Christine Dunford, Michael Milhoan and Barry Jenner ABC has revived this “extended…

privateering

(Encyclopedia) privateering, former usage of war permitting privately owned and operated war vessels (privateers) under commission of a belligerent government to capture enemy shipping. Private…

Biographies: 2016 People in the News

2016 People in the News See also 2015 People in the News 2014 People in the News 2013 People in the News 2012 People in the News 2011 People in the News 2010 People…

Brewer's: Lincoln Green

Lincoln, at one time, was noted for its green, Coventry for its blue, and Yorkshire for its grey. (See Kendal Green.) “And girls in Lincoln green.” Drayton: Polyolbion, xxv. Falstaff…

DeForest Kelley Biography

DeForest KelleyAge: 79 actor known to Star Trek fans as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy. While his acting career began in 1947 and included parts in several TV shows and movies, it was his role on…

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy 1999 Deaths

Carolyn Bessette KennedyAge: 33 press-shy fashion publicist who was thrown into the media spotlight when she married John F. Kennedy, Jr., in 1996. She managed to maintain a certain degree of…

Lewis STEWARD, Congress, IL (1824-1896)

STEWARD Lewis , a Representative from Illinois; born near Hollisterville, Wayne County, Pa., November 21, 1824; attended the common schools; in 1838 moved with his parents to Kendall County, Ill…

Post Office Motto

The Question: I roughly recall that the motto of the U.S. Postal Service is in part, "Neither snow nor rain nor dark of night . . ." How does the rest go? Who wrote it? And…

Frost, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Frost, Robert, 1874–1963, American poet, b. San Francisco. Perhaps the most popular and beloved of 20th-century American poets, Frost wrote of the character, people, and landscape of…