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Oak Forest

(Encyclopedia) Oak Forest, village (1990 pop. 26,203), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1947. Oak Forest lies in a grain and livestock area. Industries include the manufacture…

Collingwood, Robin George

(Encyclopedia) Collingwood, Robin George, 1889–1943, English philosopher and historian. From 1908 he was associated with Oxford as student, fellow, lecturer in history, and professor of philosophy.…

cornflower

(Encyclopedia) cornflower, common herb (Centaurea cyanus) of the family Asteraceae (aster family). It is a garden flower in the United States but a weed in the grainfields of Europe. It is called…

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…

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…