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Counts, George Sylvester

(Encyclopedia) Counts, George Sylvester, 1889–1974, American educator, b. near Baldwin City, Kans., grad. Baker Univ., 1911, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1916. He taught in the educational departments of…

Richler, Mordecai

(Encyclopedia) Richler, Mordecai, 1931–2001, Canadian novelist, b. Montreal. He fled his native city in the early 1950s and lived mainly in London, returning to Canada in 1972 and from then on…

How Many Americans Have Done This Activity

97 millionInternet users have used government Web sites93 millionhave used the internet for health or medical purposes84 milliongot political news and used the internet to participate in the…

Why don't Americans celebrate Boxing Day?

No Love for St. Stephen Boxing Day, also known as St. Stephen's Day, is a holiday celebrated every year the day after Christmas. If Boxing Day falls on the weekend, it is observed the following…

Catlin, George

(Encyclopedia) Catlin, George, 1796–1872, American traveler and artist, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Educated as a lawyer, he practiced in Philadelphia for two years but turned to art study and became a…

Timeline: Russian Culture, Part III

Part III: The Golden Age       1756 1801 1852 1900 Next: Soviet Period       1756 Czarina Elizabeth allies Russia with France; cult of French…

Timeline: Russian Culture, Part IV

Part IV: The Soviet Period       1920 1935 1958 1974 2000 Back: Rise of Russia       1918 Greatest Russian symbolist poet, Aleksandr Blok, writes…