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Carrington, Henry Beebee

(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824–1912, U.S. army officer and historian, b. Wallingford, Conn., grad. Yale, 1845, and afterward studied at Yale Law School. Carrington ably reorganized the…

Jurassic period

(Encyclopedia) Jurassic periodJurassic periodjərăsˈĭk [key] [from the Jura Mts.], second period of the Mesozoic era of geologic time, lasting from 213 to 144 million years ago. At the start of the…

Division I-AA

First Round (Dec. 1)at Montana 28Northwestern St. 19at Sam Houston St. 34N. Arizona 31at Maine 14McNeese St. 10Northern Iowa 49at Eastern Ill. 43at Ga. Southern 60Florida A&M 35at…

1998-99 Division I-AA Football Playoffs

First Round (Nov. 28) at Georgia Southern 49 Colgate 28 at Connecticut 42 Hampton 34 at Florida A&M 27 Troy State 17 at Westen Illinois 52 Montana 9 Lehigh 24 at…

Division I-AA

First Round(Nov. 25)at Appalachian St. 31James Madison 24at Delaware 38Hofstra 17at Georgia Southern 24Troy St. 21at Marshall 38Jackson St. 8at McNeese St. 33Idaho 3at Montana 48Eastern…

New Hampshire

New Hampshire State Information  Capital: Concord Official Name: New Hampshire Organized as a territory/republic: 1629 Entered Union (rank): June 21, 1788 (9th state) Present constitution…

Smith, Jedediah Strong

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799–1831, American explorer, one of the greatest of the mountain men, b. near Binghamton, N.Y. Early in 1824, Smith took a party through South Pass, beginning…

Wyoming, state, United States

(Encyclopedia) CE5 WyomingWyomingwīōˈmĭng [key], least populous state in the United States, one of the Rocky Mt. states of the West. It is bordered by South Dakota and Nebraska (E), Colorado and…