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Presidential Assassination Attempts: 1920–Present
Everyone knows about the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, but there is a larger history of attempts on the lives of U.S. leaders. Here are the presidential…Hawke on Hamlet
The Snow Falling on Cedars Star Shakes Up Shakespeare by Alicia Potter In Michael Almereyda's new film, Ethan Hawke's Hamlet is a brooding filmmaker in Manhattan. "It's highbrow in that the…Baron Munchausen: An encounter between the Ba...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe In which the Baron proves h... Reflections on Saint Hubert... An encounter between the Ba... An encounter between the Baron's nose and a door-post, with…Baron Munchausen: The Baron relates his adven...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron is made a prisone... Bathes in the Mediterranean... The Baron relates his adven... The Baron relates his adventures on a voyage to North America…Baron Munchausen: Preparations for the Baron'...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron insists on the ve... The Baron proceeds on his v... Preparations for the Baron'... Preparations for the Baron's expedition into Africa-…Richard Nixon: Watergate
by Ann-Marie Imbornoni and Tasha Vincent The scandal that ended the Nixon presidency began on June 17, 1972, when five men, all employees of Nixon's reelection campaign, were caught…Summer Games Gold Medal Winners: 200-Meter Dash
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Netherlands 24.40 1952 Marjorie Jackson, Australia 23.70 1956…1960 Olympic Leading Medal Winners
Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No Sport G-S-B 7 Boris Shakhlin, USSR Gymnastics 4-2-1 6 Takashi Ono,…Heidegger, Martin
(Encyclopedia) Heidegger, MartinHeidegger, Martinmärˈtēn hīˈdĕger [key], 1889–1976, German philosopher. As a student at Freiburg, Heidegger was influenced by the neo-Kantianism of Heinrich Rickert…Hussites
(Encyclopedia) HussitesHussiteshŭsˈīts [key], followers of John Huss. After the burning of Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416), the Hussites continued as a powerful group in Bohemia and Moravia.…Trending
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