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Climate of 100 Selected U.S. Cities

The following table gives the average monthly temperature, average annual precipitation, and average annual snowfall for 100 cities in the United States…

Uncovering African Roots

DNA Tests, New Technology Reveal African Heritage by David Johnson Photograph of slave cabin and occupants near Eufala, Alabama. (Source: Library of Congress) Howard University has assembled…

1993 Radio & Records All-Time Charts

1993 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsAC“Love Is” Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight (Giant/Reprise)“Tell Me What You Dream” Restless Heart featuring Warren Hill (RCA)“Forever in Love”…

The Book of Daniel

Daniel Ch. 1: In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king… Ch. 2: And in the second year of the reign of… Ch. 3: Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold… Ch. 4: Nebuchadnezzar the…

interstellar matter

(Encyclopedia) interstellar matter, matter in a galaxy between the stars, known also as the interstellar medium. The interstellar gas, which constitutes about 99% of the interstellar matter,…

Kathleen Kearney, 2002 News

public official, resigned as the secretary of Florida's Department of Children and Families in August, after a series of high-profile missteps by the agency. In April, the department…

Barnett Slepian, 2001 News

anti-abortion activist who had been indicted in 1999 in the shooting death of abortion doctor Barnett Slepian, was arrested in March in France. Kopp had been on the lam for more than two…

Walt Whitman: Memories

MemoriesHow sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed —their loves, joys, persons, voyages.

Alexander Litvinenko, 2006 News

former KGB spy, died in London in November after being contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium 210. His mysterious death sparked an investigation that found traces of polonium 210…