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47th NFL Pro Bowl Game and 27th AFC-NFC contest (NFC leads series, 15-12). Date: Feb. 2 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. Attendance— 50,031. Coaches: Tom Coughlin, Jacksonville (AFC) and Dom Capers,…2012 GLAAD Media Awards
Here are the winners of the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Outstanding Comedy Series: Modern Family…2006 Teens' Favorite Young Adult Books
Teen readers across the country vote for the best from the American Library Association Harry Potter #1 on Teens' Top Ten Related Links Teen Read Week from the ALA Teens'…Slye, Maud
(Encyclopedia) Slye, MaudSlye, Maudslī [key], 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor emeritus in 1945,…Shannon, Sir James Jebusa
(Encyclopedia) Shannon, Sir James Jebusa, 1862–1923, English portrait and figure painter, b. Auburn, N.Y. To study art he moved (1878) to London, where he won recognition from English society and…Tappan, Lewis
(Encyclopedia) Tappan, Lewis, 1788–1873, American abolitionist, b. Northampton, Mass. He became a partner in his brother Arthur's New York mercantile house in 1828 and in 1841 founded the first…Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
(Encyclopedia) Glinka, Mikhail IvanovichGlinka, Mikhail Ivanovichmēkhəyēlˈ ēväˈnəvĭch glēnˈkä [key], 1804–57, first of the nationalist school of Russian composers. His two operas, A Life for the Czar…Arsonval, Arsène d'
(Encyclopedia) Arsonval, Arsène d'Arsonval, Arsène d'ärsĕnˈ därsôNvälˈ [key], 1851–1940, French physicist and physician. He worked under Claude Bernard and under C. E. Brown-Séquard (whom he…copaiba
(Encyclopedia) copaibacopaibakōpāˈbə, –pīˈ– [key], oleoresin (see resin) obtained from several species of tropical South American trees of the genus Copaifera. The thick, transparent exudate varies…delftware
(Encyclopedia) delftware. The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest…Trending
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