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Meier, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Meier, RichardMeier, Richardmīˈər [key], 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York “Five” or “white” architects…

Halloween: Witchcraft in Film

Halloween Films Beyond Bewitched by Beth Rowen Related Links Halloween Trick and TreatsAll-Time Scariest MoviesInterview with a Real-Life WitchInterview with Blair Witch…

2004 Baseball Coming Attractions

Philadelphia (NL): Citizens Bank Park (Citizens Bank is the title sponsor) officially opened on April 12 for the Phillies home-opening 4-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. The baseballonly, grass-field…

History of Camp David

A brief history of the Presidential mountain retreat and its famous guests by David Johnson President Kennedy with JFK, Jr., at Camp David. (Source: John F. Kennedy Library)…

Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 12, 1961)

To the Congress of the United States: Once again it is my Constitutional duty to assess the state of the Union. On each such previous occasion during these past eight years I have outlined a…

Woolworth, Frank Winfield

(Encyclopedia) Woolworth, Frank Winfield, 1852–1919, American merchant, b. Rodman, N.Y. He established in 1879 a five-cent store at Utica, N.Y., which failed, and the same year he started a…

Schober, Johann

(Encyclopedia) Schober, JohannSchober, Johannyōˈhän shōˈbər [key], 1874–1932, Austrian chancellor (1921–22, 1929–30). A respected career civil servant, he held the key post of head of the Vienna…

Lane, Fitz Hugh

(Encyclopedia) Lane, Fitz Hugh, 1804–65, American painter and printmaker, b. Gloucester, Mass. A painter of ships and coastal panoramas, Lane is most notable as a leading figure in American luminism…

Doxiades, Constantinos

(Encyclopedia) Doxiades, ConstantinosDoxiades, Constantinoskônstäntēˈnôs dôksyäˈᵺēs [key], 1913–75, Greek urban planner, designer, and consultant on ekistics, the science of human settlements. In…

Grijalva

(Encyclopedia) GrijalvaGrijalvagrēhälˈvä [key], river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, rising in SW Guatemala and flowing NW into S Mexico and N through Chiapas and Tabasco states to the Gulf of Campeche. It…