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Women: College Soccer, 1999-2000 Season

The 1999 first team All-America selections of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Holdovers from the combined 1998 All-America team are in bold type. GOALKEEPER—…

WNBA Annual Awards, 2004 Season

Most Valuable Player: Lisa Leslie, Los AngelesRookie of the Year: Diana Taurasi, PhoenixCoach of the Year: Suzie McConnell Serio, MinnesotaDefensive Player of the Year: Lisa Leslie, Los…

2011 National Book Awards

The 61st Annual National Book Awards were presented November 16, 2011, in New York City. Fiction: Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn…

Gompers, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Gompers, SamuelGompers, Samuelgŏmˈpərz [key], 1850–1924, American labor leader, b. London. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863. He worked as a cigar maker and in…

Jobs, Steven Paul

(Encyclopedia) Jobs, Steven PaulJobs, Steven Pauljŏbz [key], 1955–2011, American computer-industry executive, b. San Francisco. He dropped out of Reed College (1972), and working with Stephen Wozniak…

Crane, Hart

(Encyclopedia) Crane, Hart (Harold Hart Crane), 1899–1932, American poet, b. Garrettsville, Ohio. He published only two volumes of poetry during his lifetime, but those works established Crane as one…

Donner Party

(Encyclopedia) Donner Party, group of emigrants to California who in the winter of 1846–47 met with one of the most famous tragedies in Western history. The California-bound families were mostly from…

Abramoff scandal

(Encyclopedia) Abramoff scandal, in U.S. history, political corruption scandal resulting from criminal conduct on the part of lobbyist Jack Abramoff (1959–) and his associates. Abramoff was a…