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The 50 States Quarters Program

The Question: What is the order that the new U.S. quarters are being produced? And how often will a new coin be introduced? The Answer: The 50 State Quarters…

50 Funniest "Futurama" Quotes

Top of Page Greetings, fellow Earthicans! Are you ready for a journey to the far, far future? A time when robots, aliens, and mutants roam the streets and the fate of the universe hangs in the…

50 Spookiest Halloween Quotes

Top of Page Halloween, the ghoul-filled season that we all love, is just around the corner. This holiday has been celebrated for centuries, with origins dating back to the ancient Celtic festival of…

NASA's 50th Anniversary

Celebrating NASA's birthday with fantastic slideshows featuring astronauts, spacecrafts, moons, planets, and more by Mark Hughes A wake up call came to the American people in 1957, when the…

Békéscsaba

(Encyclopedia) BékéscsabaBékéscsababāˈkāshchŏˌbŏ [key] or CsabaCsabachŏˌbŏ [key], city (1991 est. pop. 67,691), SE Hungary. In an agricultural region, Békéscsaba has various processing plants and…

Léros

(Encyclopedia) LérosLéroslĕˈrôs, lēˈrŏs [key], island (1991 pop. 8,059), c.20 sq mi (50 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; one of the Dodecanese. The port of Lakkíon, or Lakkí, was the naval base…

Poti

(Encyclopedia) PotiPotipôˈtyē [key], city (1989 pop. 50,922), W Georgia, on the Black Sea at the mouth of the Rion River. It is a port that ships manganese (from Chiatura), corn, lumber, and wine.…

Daman and Diu

(Encyclopedia) Daman and DiuDaman and Diudəmänˈ, dēˈ&oomacr; [key], union territory (2001 provisional pop. 158,059), 50 sq mi (130 sq km), W India, on the Arabian Sea, composed of two former…

mazurka

(Encyclopedia) mazurkamazurkaməzûrˈkə, –z&oobreve;rˈ– [key], Polish national dance that spread to England and the United States at the beginning of the 19th cent. Danced by four or eight couples…

Sharon, plain, Israel

(Encyclopedia) SharonSharonshāˈrən, shârˈən [key], plain between the Samarian Hills of central Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, extending c.50 mi (80 km) from Jaffa to Caesarea, and mentioned…