Thursday, November 23, 2006
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Monday, April 04, 2005
Mckim, Ruby
Née Ruby Short one of the 20th century's most innovative American quilt designers. Educated at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School of Design) in New York City, she later taught art classes for the Kansas City school system. Her first published quilt pattern, for the Kansas City Star in 1916, was an outgrowth
Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron Of Verulam
Also called (160318) Sir Francis Bacon lord chancellor of England (161821). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials and as James I's lord chancellor; and intellectually
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Laine, Dame Cleo
Laine was born to a Jamaican father and an English mother. She quit school at age 14 and took a variety of jobs while auditioning for singing jobs. Her first break came in 1951, when she was hired as a vocalist for the Johnny Dankworth Seven, a
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Uttaradit
Town, northern Thailand. It is a provincial capital and a farming market centre on the Nan River and the BangkokChiang Mai railway. The town centre was rebuilt after being destroyed by a fire in 1967. The Pha Then Buddhist shrine is southwest of the town. Uttaradit is in one of Thailand's foremost fruit-growing regions, producing rambutans, mangosteens, durians, coconuts,
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Peter Ii
The son of Alexander I, who was assassinated during a visit to France on Oct. 9, 1934, Peter became titular king at 11, but the actual rule was in the hands of a regent, his uncle Prince Paul. After Paul was deposed by a coup of officers led by Gen. Duan Simovic on March 27, 1941, Peter ruled for a few weeks until Axis troops invaded. He then
Uttaradit
A rare and slow-moving South American rodent found only in tropical forests of the western Amazon River basin and adjacent foothills of the Andes Mountains from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia to western Bolivia. It has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg (33 pounds) and measuring up to 79 cm (31.1 inches) in length, not including the thick, furry tail of
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Metauro River
Italian Fiume Metauro, also called Metro, Latin Metaurus, river, Marche region, central Italy, rising in the Etruscan Apennines (Appennino Tosco-Emiliano) and flowing for 68 mi (109 km) east-northeast into the Adriatic Sea just south of Fano. The lower valley of the river (the ancient Metaurus) was the scene of a great Roman victory over the Carthaginians in 207 BC, when the consuls Marcus Livius Salinator and Claudius Nero defeated and slew
Monday, March 28, 2005
Nahcolite
Colourless to white carbonate mineral (NaHCO3), a naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate. Its structure consists of planar chains of carbonate groups linked with hydrogen bonds; planes are linked together by sodium in six-fold coordination with oxygen. Nahcolite commonly forms by reaction of carbon dioxide with the mineral trona (q.v.) in evaporated lake basins.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
American manufacturer of computer workstations, servers, and software with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
