Search

Search results

Displaying 231 - 240

Elliot Richardson Biography

Elliot RichardsonElliot Lee Richardsonformer cabinet memberBorn: 7/20/1920Birthplace: Boston U.S. government official who held several high-level government positions in Massachusetts and in…

Ronald Ridenhour 1998 Deaths

Ronald RidenhourAge: 52 Vietnam veteran who disclosed information picked up from Army colleagues about the killing of between 175 and 400 civilians in My Lai by American soldiers in 1968. An…

Prince Hall Biography

Prince Hall clergyman, abolitionistBorn: 1735Birthplace: Barbados Hall established the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston in 1775. It was the first lodge…

Elliot Richardson 1999 Deaths

Elliot RichardsonAge: 79 U.S. government official who held several high-level government positions in Massachusetts and in Washington. He will be best remembered, though, as the U.S. attorney…

Archibald Cox 2004 Deaths

Archibald CoxAge: 92 special prosecutor who was fired by the Nixon administration in the Oct. 1973 “Saturday Night Massacre.” Two months after Cox joined the Watergate investigation, it was…

January 1999 News and Events

1999 Month-By-MonthWorldOpposition to Khmer Rouge Trial Denied (Jan. 1): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says earlier comments misinterpreted and that he supports investigation into mass…

January 1997 News and Events

1997 News Month-By-Month World Two Sentenced to Death in Rwanda Massacre (Jan. 3): Court condemns Hutu men in first attempt to punish those responsible for half a million killings in 1994.…

What Is Boko Haram?

Islamic sect that opposes Western education terrorizes civilians Map of NigeriaRelated Links Nigeria Country Profile 2014 Current Events Map of Africa…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 7

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 6 8 7 SPIRIT: 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there: The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was…

Lord Killanin 1999 Deaths

Lord KillaninAge: 84 sixth president of the International Olympic Committee who guided the organization through the turbulent tragedies of the 1970s between the reigns of Avery Brundage and…