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2005 Current Events

2005 Month-By-Month 2005 News of the Nation 2005 News of the World See also: Year in Review 2005 People in the News in 2005 Deaths in 2005 Disasters in 2005 Notable…

A-D

Spencer AbrahamDaniel Kahikina Akaka Archibald Alphonso AlexanderSamuel A. Alito, Jr. Paula Gunn AllenKing Abdullah AmanirenasStephen AmbroseMary AntinSusan B. Anthony Virginia ApgarJames…

2005 People in the News

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),Jack Abramoff,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Askar Akayev,Samuel Alito,Kofi Annan,Lance Armstrong,Bashar al-Assad,Gloria Arroyo,Buster Baxter,Benedict XVI,Tony Blair,Robert Blake,John…

2005 Month-By-Month

January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005…

The Devil's Dictionary: King's Evil

by Ambrose Bierce KINGKISSKING'S EVIL -n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus "the most pious Edward" of…

Quebec, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Quebec, Fr. Québec, city (1991 pop. 167,517), provincial capital, S Que., Canada, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers. The population is largely French…

Gerson, John

(Encyclopedia) Gerson, John (Jean Charlier de Gerson)Gerson, Johngûrˈsən; zhäN shärlyāˈ də zhârsôNˈ [key], 1363–1429, French ecclesiastical statesman and writer. He studied (1377–94) under Pierre d'…