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Chandra Levy, 24, 2002 News

  former Justice Department Bureau of Prisons intern who disappeared from Washington, DC, in April 2001, was found in May in a secluded area of Rock Creek Park, about four miles from her apartment…

Shekhar, Chandra

(Encyclopedia) Shekhar, Chandra (Chandra Shekhar Singh), 1927–2007, Indian political leader, prime minister of India (1990–91), b. Uttar Pradesh. Active in the Socialist party, he served in the upper…

Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra

(Encyclopedia) Chatterjee, Bankim ChandraChatterjee, Bankim Chandrabəngˈkĭm chŭnˈdrə chäˈtərjē [key], 1838–94, Indian nationalist writer, b. Bengal. He popularized a Bengali prose style that became…

capital levy

(Encyclopedia) capital levy, form of taxation by which the government takes part of the capital of any person or business, as distinguished from a tax on personal or business income. It is usually…

Gary Condit, 53, 2001 News

  Democratic congressman from California, found himself the center of a media frenzy during the summer after former Justice Department Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, 24, went missing from…

Bose, Subhas Chandra

(Encyclopedia) Bose, Subhas ChandraBose, Subhas Chandrash&oobreve;bhäshˈ chŭnˈdrə bōs [key], 1897–1945?, Indian nationalist also known as Netaji. He began his political career in Calcutta (now…

Chandra: Exploring the Invisible Universe

Sources: NASA and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, called the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), was launched from the space shuttle Columbia…

Dan Rather, 2001 News

CBS Evening News anchor, made headlines over the summer for refusing to report the news—or at least what other news outlets deemed newsworthy—about the disappearance of government intern…

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

(Encyclopedia) Lévy-Bruhl, LucienLévy-Bruhl, Lucienlāvēˈ-brül [key], 1857–1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Revue…

Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra

(Encyclopedia) Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra, or Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseSir Jagadis Chunder Bosejəgäˈdēs chŭnˈdrə bōs, chŭnˈdər [key], 1858–1937, Indian physicist and plant physiologist, educated in…