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What is the World's Oldest Country?

Enduring Civilizations Over the past thousands of years, civilizations, empires, and countries have risen and fallen. Some of these have been erased from history leaving very little behind while…

1998 Election Outlook, Part 1

This Year's Strategies Until Tuesday, October 27, Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky had only been a fringe issue in the ads, with Republicans trying to remind voters of the accomplishments of…

Brewer's: Fuel

Adding fuel to fire. Saying or doing something to increase the anger of a person already angry. The French say, “pouring oil on fire.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

July 2013 Current Events: Business News

U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business news for the month of July 2013. Job Growth Continues in June (July 5):…

June 2013 Current Events: Business News

U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business news for the month of June 2013. Job Growth Increases in May (June 7):…

2002 NHL All-Star Game

World 8, North America 5WorldNorth AmericaScore by Periods2002 NHL Skills Competition 52nd NHL All-Star Game. Date: Feb. 2 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles; Coaches: Scotty Bowman,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Preface

PrefaceIn Mr. Cabot's prefatory note to the Riverside Edition of the Poems, published the year after Mr. Emerson's death, he said:— "This volume contains nearly all the pieces included in…

Brewer's: Marriages

Carrier's republican marriages. A device of wholesale slaughter, adopted by Carrier, proconsul of Nantes, in the first French Revolution. It consisted in tying men and women together by…