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Powys, John Cowper

(Encyclopedia) Powys, John CowperPowys, John Cowperpōˈĭs [key], 1872–1963, British author and lecturer. In addition to his widely admired novels Wolf Solent (1929), and A Glastonbury Romance (1932),…

Darrell ISSA, Congress, CA (1954)

ISSA Darrell , a Representative from California; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 1, 1953; B.A., Siena Heights College, Adrian, Mich., 1976; United States Army, 1970-1980;…

electromotive series

(Encyclopedia) electromotive series, list of metals whose order indicates the relative tendency to be oxidized, or to give up electrons (see oxidation and reduction); the list also includes the gas…

Top Ten List

Frequent and funny questions Compiled by Information Please Is your know-it-all boss trying to stump the office with a trivia question? Did you get the final Jeopardy question wrong again?…

Brewer's: Lloyd's List

A London periodical, in which the shipping news received at Lloyd's Rooms is regularly published. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lloyd's RegisterLloyd's…

The Endangered Species List

The Question: Can you tell me where I can obtain a list of endangered species? The Answer: Comprehensive lists can be found at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife…

Women are not equal on this list

The Question: How many women have been on the FBI's Most Wanted List? The Answer: The first woman on the list, Ruth Eisemann-Schier, was added in…

Brewer's: Civil List

Now applied to expenses voted annually by Parliament to pay the personal expenses of the Sovereign, the household expenses, and the pensions awarded by Royal bounty; but before the reign…

category, in philosophy

(Encyclopedia) category, philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be…