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The Last Stage of the Columbia

Chapter 19 Chapter 21 The Last Stage of the Columbia On the thirteenth of April the party reached the series of falls and rapids which they called the Long Narrows. At the point…

2002 Baseball World Series Game 3

Tuesday, Oct. 22, at San Francisco Batting Summary Anaheim San Francisco   AB R H RBI   AB R H RBI Eckstein, ss 5 1 2 1 Lofton, cf 4 1 0…

Brewer's: Glasgow Arms

An oak tree, a bell hanging on one of the branches, a bird at the top of the tree, and a salmon with a ring in its mouth at the base. St. Kentigern, in the seventh century, took up his…

Naipaul, V. S.

(Encyclopedia) Naipaul, V. S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)Naipaul, V. S.nīpôlˈ [key], 1932–2018, English writer, b. Chaguanas, Trinidad; grad. University College, Oxford, 1953. Naipul, whose…

Stanford University

(Encyclopedia) Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by…

Remington, Frederic

(Encyclopedia) Remington, Frederic, 1861–1909, American painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, b. Canton, N.Y., studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League. His subjects…

Koirala, Girija Prasad

(Encyclopedia) Koirala, Girija PrasadKoirala, Girija Prasadgĭrēˈjə präsädˈ koiräˈlä [key], 1925–2010, Nepalese political leader. He grew up in N India, where his family lived in exile. He helped…