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Tennis, Anyone?
Wimbledon fun facts by Mike Morrison 2008 Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion Venus Williams (Source/AP)So you think you know Wimbledon? Tennis's most prestigious grand slam event gets underway…Tennis, Anyone?
Wimbledon fun facts by Mike Morrison 2008 Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion Venus Williams (Source/AP)So you think you know Wimbledon? Tennis's most prestigious grand slam event gets underway…Brewer's: Court
originally meant a coop or sheepfold. It was on the Latium hills that the ancient Latins raised their cors or cohors, small enclosures with hurdles for sheep, etc. Subsequently, as many…Brewer's: Admiral
corruption of Amir-al. Milton, speaking of Satan, says: His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some tall amiral, were but a wand) He walked…Brewer's: Bead
(Anglo-Saxon, bed, a prayer). When little balls with a hole through them were used for keeping account of the number of prayers repeated, the term was applied to the prayers also. (See…Selected Essays in Black History: The Freedmen's Bureau
The March of Progress Of the Training of Black Men The Freedmen's Bureau by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line; the…Christina Rossetti: The Ghost'S Petition
The Ghost'S Petition'There's a footstep coming: look out and see,' 'The leaves are falling, the wind is calling; No one cometh across the lea.'—'There's a footstep coming; O sister, look…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Jane: The Recollection
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane: The Invitation The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa To Jane: The Recollection Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. See the…Banking in the United States | Civics: Links to History
Links to History: Banking in the United States 1700s 1781 The first U.S. commerical bank is incorporated in Philadelphia, the Bank of North America. 1791 The First Bank of the…September 2017 Current Events: World News
Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…Trending
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