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Melrose Park

(Encyclopedia) Melrose Park, village (1990 pop. 20,859), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. It has large railroad yards and shops, steel mills, and factories that make a…

Homewood

(Encyclopedia) Homewood. 1 City (2020 pop. 26,414), Jefferson co., N central Ala., a residential suburb of Birmingham; inc. 1921. 2 Village (2020…

Robin Cook 2005 Deaths

Robin CookAge: 59 British politician who served as foreign secretary in the Blair administration until he resigned in 2003 to protest Britain's participation in the war in Iraq. Died:…

Alistair Cooke 2004 Deaths

Alistair CookeAge: 95 British-born journalist and television and radio host whose commentary on American culture found a wide audience in both the U.S. and the UK. Cooke hosted the weekly BBC…

Aesop's Fables: The Dog and the Cook

by Aesop The Farmer and His SonsThe Monkey as KingThe Dog and the Cook A rich man once invited a number of his friends and acquaintances to a banquet. His dog thought it would be a good…

Cooking Up Linear Equations

Cooking Up Linear Equations Algebra Cooking Up Linear Equations Point-Slope Form Slope-Intercept Form Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form Standard Form of a Line Tricky Linear Equations Now…

Brewer's: Cook your Goose

(See Goose) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CookedCooing and Billing A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Jack Kent Cooke Biography

Jack Kent CookeBorn: Oct. 25, 1912Football sole owner of NFL Washington Redskins from 1985-97; teams won 2 Super Bowls (1988,92); also owned NBA Lakers and NHL Kings in LA; built LA Forum for…

Cook Islands and Overseas Territories

Map of Cook IslandsSource: The World Factbook 2003 The Cook Islands (93 sq mi; 241 sq km) were placed under New Zealand administration in 1901. They achieved self-governing status in association with…

Chicago Heights

(Encyclopedia) Chicago Heights, city (2020 pop. 28,860), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an…