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United States President Bill Clinton began his second term in 1997 by focusing on the needs of American cities. Soon after his January inauguration, Clinton asked the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to devise a long-term plan for ...


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Most regions of the world began 1997 showing substantial economic strength and low inflation. The combination fueled sharp gains in global stock markets. The second half of 1997, however, brought a wave of severe financial market declines that struck ...


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Thriving economies in many nations, growing populations, and increasing numbers of vehicles caused the world's demand for energy to continue to increase in 1997. Despite the increased demand, energy prices were relatively stable and low in 1997 due to ...


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International trade grew strongly for much of 1997, contributing to rapid economic growth and low inflation in the United States. However, the outlook for trade became a source of concern in mid-1997, after a severe crisis swept across financial ...


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In 1997, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif prevailed in a prolonged constitutional conflict that involved President Farooq Leghari and Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, both of whom had moved to oust Sharif. On December 2, Leghari resigned, and Shah was ...


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The Portuguese economy grew strongly in 1997, boosting hopes of qualifying for the single European currency to be launched in 1999. The government of Prime Minister Antonio Guterres claimed that joining the single currency was necessary to keep ...


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Romania. Non-Communists took control of Romania's government in 1997 for the first time since the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu fell in 1989. The new government quickly began to enact the promised broad slate of economic and social reforms ...


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The two main political parties of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority agreed in 1997 upon a united approach in negotiating an end to a 14-year civil war with the guerrilla army of Tamil Hindus. The governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), headed ...


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Allied rebel forces launched a major military offensive on Jan. 12, 1997, against Sudanese government forces, raising fears that Sudan's 14-year-old civil war might fragment the country. The rebels hoped that their capture of several military ...


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Switzerland continued to struggle in 1997 with allegations that the country and its banks had profited from World War II (1939-1945) dealings with Nazi Germany. The controversy began in 1996, when the British government opened wartime archives that ...


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In May 1997, a national referendum on whether Slovakia should join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance of 16 Western European and North American nations, was declared invalid due to faulty procedures, the latest episode ...


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Sierra Leone was buoyed early in 1997 by its steady progress toward political stability and improved economic conditions. Democratic elections in 1996 had replaced a military regime with a civilian government, and a cease-fire had ended a five-year ...


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In 1997, American farmers planted more soybeans than wheat, a reflection of the Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, which ended government restrictions on planting. Harvests were good, prices were above average, and exports reached ...


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On June 4, 1997, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso obtained the right to run for a second term as president in 1998, when the Brazilian Senate passed a constitutional amendment that allows the president, state governors, and mayors to serve for two ...


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Retail toy sales in the United States in 1997 rose by approximately 3 percent over 1996 sales. The gain was considered average in the toy industry, which keeps its prices low to appeal to consumers who generally purchase toys with discretionary ...


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The Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim militia group, battled several smaller regional groups in 1997 for total control of Afghanistan. In 1996, the Taliban captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, and formed a new national government. By early 1997, the ...


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Washington, D.C., in 1997 remained at or near the top in almost every negative category of urban statisticsinfant mortality, drug addiction, high-school dropout rates, AIDS cases, rape, and armed robbery. Although the city's overall crime rate ...


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A plan by the U.S. Census Bureau to use statistical sampling to supplement traditional counting methods for the 2000 census became snarled in a partisan political dispute in 1997. Sampling techniques would enable the bureau to estimate a region's ...


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Mayor Pierre Bourque and his Vision Montreal party lost their majority on Montreal's City Council on July 23, 1997, when Councillor Robert Gagnon became the 15th Vision member to resign from the party in 1997. As a result, Vision Montreal's caucus in ...


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In 1997, the world used gasoline, heating oil, and other petroleum products at a rate of some 73.8 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an energy-research group based in Paris. One barrel consists of 42 gallons ...


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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in May 1997 estimated the world's population at 5.85 billion people. That figure reflected a slight decrease in the world's annual population growth rate, from 1.57 percent in 1994 to 1.48 percent in 1995. ...


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New York City announced a plan in January to purchase land around upstate reservoirs and preserve it as a natural water-filtration system. The land, in its natural state, helps to prohibit the flow of municipal and agricultural pollutants into the ...


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In 1997, a relatively unexciting year in American verse, several prize-winning poets published new collections, but no single book garnered outstanding reviews. The most valuable overview of the year was the annual volume of The Best American Poetry,


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President Bill Clinton and former presidents George Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford were among the dignitaries who gathered in Philadelphia on April 27, 1997, to kick off the Presidents' Summit for America's Futurea three-day event focusing ...


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Sinatra, a singer legendary for his professional artistry and colorful personal life, died in 1998 at age 82.


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France, playing on their home turf, defeated Brazil, 3-0--the greatest margin since 1970--to win their first World Cup title.


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The spread of chemical and biological weapons caused grave concern to the world on the verge of the new century.


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Some key events in the Asian economic crisis

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A detailed account of the region's economic downturn


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Many investors expected a quick resolution to the economic crisis in Southeast Asia in 1997. By mid-1998, economists realized that the health of the global economy was at stake.


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A new behind-the-scenes player on Broadway--the corporate producer--restores luster to New York City's theater industry and redefines the business of the stage.


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Stephen Sondheim: A Man Outside the System

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Most theater critics agree that no artist since the golden age of the American musical has contributed more to the art form than Stephen Sondheim.


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The United States faces difficult questions as the number of executions continues to increase.


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By 1998, the dream of establishing a single European currency was approaching reality as 11 nations prepared to launch the euro.


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A Common Standard--50 Years of Defending Human Rights for All

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In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the document that launched the first worldwide defense of human rights.


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On April 30, 1998, Israel celebrated 50 years of existence, a half-century of both triumph and turmoil.


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New records, career milestones, and individual triumphs highlighted the 28th Olympic Winter Games in February 1998.


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A July 1998 telephone survey of more than 750 adults revealed that many people in the United States were skeptical about the reliability of most media, despite the source of the news.


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Public confidence in the reliability of news reporting declined in 1998, echoing the state of journalism of 100 years ago.


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Although several African leaders spoke of an African renaissance (revival) in 1998, the year was overshadowed by an escalation of political and military conflict in many parts of the continent. In 1998, at least one in four African countries was ...


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Australia continued to enjoy relative prosperity in 1998, despite an economic crisis among its Asian trading partners. Although the ruling Liberal-National party coalition government held a majority of 23 seats in the House of Representatives, it did ...


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The United States auto industry experienced another strong year in 1998. Through September, sales of cars and light trucks ran 1.7 percent ahead of 1997's totals. Automotive industry analysts predicted in late 1998 that 15.3 million cars and trucks ...


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The severe economic crisis in Asia in 1998 had a chilling effect on the region's airline industry. The economic recession resulted in a decrease in the demand for business travel and tourism. The devaluation of Asian currencies also cut into profits. ...


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A spellbinding quest for the home-run record and the highest victory total by any team in 92 years made 1998 one of the greatest seasons in the history of major league baseball. Attendance for the regular season totaled 70,589,505--the highest in ...


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Professional basketball during the 1997-1998 season took on a familiar look, when the Chicago Bulls won the National Basketball Association (NBA) title for the sixth time in eight seasons under coach Phil Jackson. The Bulls tied the Utah Jazz for best ...


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In July 1998, biologists at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu led by Ryuzo Yanagimachi reported that they had created more than 50 mice that were clones (genetic duplicates) of adult mice. The report was the first published study to confirm the ...


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On May 18, 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 individual states filed suit in federal court against Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington. The suit charged Microsoft, developer of the immensely popular Windows operating system (the ...


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In April 1998, the World Trade Organization (WTO), a Geneva, Switzerland-based organization that resolves international trade disputes, ruled that the United States violated international trade laws by using trade sanctions to enforce turtle ...


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Crime statistics released in November 1998 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that serious crime in the United States declined 4 percent in 1997, compared with 1996 statistics. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, ...


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United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces returned eastern Slavonia to Croatian control on Jan. 15, 1998. An estimated 80,000 refu-gees--mostly Croats and some ethnic Serbs who had fled from their homes when Serbian rebels seized the region in ...


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Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church, began a five-day visit to Cuba on Jan. 21, 1998. During his tour, the pope called on the government to end the suppression of religious and personal liberties in Cuba. He also criticized the ...


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Many members of the Democratic Party, particularly Democrats running for the U.S. Congress in the November election, spent much of the 1998 campaign attempting to distance themselves from President Bill Clinton. On August 17, Clinton, speaking live on ...


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Greece continued to make strides toward entering the economic mainstream of Europe in 1998. The Socialist government of Prime Minister Costas Simitis devalued the Greek currency, the drachma, and announced a fresh round of budg-et cuts in March to ...


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On Dec. 17, 1998, Haiti's parliament approved Jacques-Edouard Alexis as prime minister. The decision ended a political stalemate that had left the country without a prime minister since June 1997. Without a budget or fully functional ...


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One season after capturing their first National Hockey League (NHL) championship in 42 years, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Washington Capitals, 4 1, on June 16, 1998, to retain their hold on the Stanley Cup championship. The Red Wings once again ...


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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's main Hindu nationalist party, took control of the government in March 1998, after assembling a coalition with smaller parties to secure the majority of seats in parliament. The new government, headed by Prime ...


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The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Preservation Act of 1998 was signed into law by United States President Bill Clinton on October 6. The legislation, introduced by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R., Colorado), provided funds for the ...


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Violent riots and a deepening economic crisis in 1998 led to the ouster of Suharto, who had served as president of Indonesia for 32 years. Suharto resigned on May 21, 1998. He was succeeded by Vice President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie.


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Officials from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, reported in October 1998 that the number of deaths from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States during 1997 dropped by a ...


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Although declining oil prices reduced government revenues, the Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) government of Premier Ralph Klein forecast a surplus of $165 million for fiscal year 1998-1999 (April 1, 1998, to March 31, 1999). (All amounts are in ...


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In May 1998, a research team led by zoologist Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya announced the oldest fossil evidence for bipedalism


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In April 1998, a team of scientists reported evidence suggesting that Neolithic


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Economic analysts credited the policies of President Carlos Saul Menem's administration for easing the impact of the 1998 global economic crisis on Argentina. The decision in 1991 to fix the value of the peso to the United States dollar was credited ...


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The economies of several Asian countries went into recession in 1998 as an economic crisis, which began in 1997, intensified and shook financial markets around the world. The crisis contributed to political upheaval, social unrest, widespread hunger, ...


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In 1998, astronomers reported the probability of ice on the moon and discovered how the rings of Jupiter were formed. They observed new planets, recorded powerful gamma rays from a magnetic star, and found evidence that the universe is likely to ...


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Citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina voted in September 1998 elections for members of Bosnia's parliament and the three-person federal presidency. Zivko Radisic, a moderate, defeated hard-liner Momcilo Krajisnik in the race for the Serbian seat of the ...


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The Nisga'a people of British Columbia, after a struggle of more than 100 years, moved closer in 1998 to winning title to a small section of their ancestral lands in northwestern British Columbia. In a vote held in November, the Nisga'a overwhelmingly ...


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Quebec's uncertain future in the federation dominated the Canadian political scene in 1998.


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The discovery of a new chemical compound that fights fever, pain, and inflammation like aspirin, but does not irritate the stomach or kidneys like aspirin, was announced by researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, ...


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General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, military dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, was arrested in London on Oct. 16, 1998. Pinochet's arrest and extradition had been sought by Spanish authorities, who charged him with human rights abuses. More than 3,000 ...


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China experienced severe flooding in the summer of 1998, when the Yangtze River and two other rivers swelled to record levels. The flooding resulted in the deaths of more than 3,000 people and destroyed 6 million houses. It forced the evacuation of 14 ...


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Danes opted for stability in domestic and foreign policy in voting held during 1998. In March, the center-left government of Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was reelected over the center-right opposition, led by the Liberal Party. Rasmussen's ...


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Democrats scored unexpected victories in off-year elections held in November 1998. Democrats won key gubernatorial races in Alabama, California, and South Carolina. The party also gained five seats in the United States House of Representatives and ...


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Eleven European nations embarked on an unpre-cedented economic initiative in 1998 by agreeing to launch a single currency, the euro. The project was designed to cement the economic and political integration of Western Europe, which began with the ...


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Innovation and controversy characterized college football in 1998. Collegiate football officials came up with a new method--not quite a championship play-off series--to determine a national champion. Professional football was highlighted by John ...


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France enjoyed a revival of confidence during 1998 after several years of pessimism and rising unemployment. Economic growth accelerated, creating new jobs, and France's victory in soccer's World Cup contributed to a sense of optimism.


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Germany underwent a dramatic political change in 1998 when voters rejected the 16-year-old Christian Democratic government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and elected a Social Democratic government led by Gerhard Schroeder. The election produced the first ...


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In a referendum on May 22, 1998, 94 percent of the people of Ireland who went to the polls voted to change the country's constitution to end the republic's claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland. They voted to amend the constitution to stress that ...


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Israel celebrated its 50th anniversary as a modern state in 1998. The nation, however, faced tension over Arab relations and internal dissent.


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Italy reaped the rewards of several years of budget austerity in 1998 by winning approval to participate in the launch of a single European currency, the government's paramount objective. No sooner had Italy achieved its economic goals when the ...


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Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned as prime minister of Japan on July 13, 1998, the day after his ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost seats in elections for the upper house of parliament. Keizo Obuchi, who had been foreign minister, ...


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Devastating weather struck Latin America in 1998 from one end of the region to the other.


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In August 1998, the United Nations (UN) Security Council approved a resolution, offered by the United States and Great Britain, that would suspend sanctions imposed on Libya once two suspected Libyan terrorists arrived in the Netherlands for trial. ...


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On Jan. 4, 1998, Lithuanian voters narrowly elected Valdas Adamkus, a Lithuanian-American, as their new president. Adamkus defeated Arturas Paulauskas, who was supported by Lithuania's Communists, by just over 10,000 votes. Paulauskas had won the ...


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The center-left coalition government of Prime Minister Wim Kok won a second, four-year mandate from Dutch voters in 1998. The coalition promised to continue its economic policy of wage restraint, job creation, and modest increases in social spending. ...


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New Brunswick, Canada's only legally bilingual province, gained a new premier in May when Camille Theriault was selected as the leader of the ruling Liberal Party. Theriault, New Brunswick's first Acadian (French-speaking) premier since 1970, was ...


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Newfoundland, which had the highest unemployment rate in Canada, suffered new setbacks in 1998 when funds for the $1.9-billion Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (TAGS) program ran out. The TAGS program provided income supports for about 40,000 fishers and ...


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An agreement to end years of conflict between Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Great Britain was signed on April 10, 1998. The Belfast--or Good Friday--Agreement was the most significant initiative between unionists and nationalists since the 1921 ...


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The Northwest Territories in 1998 prepared for the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999. Nunavut was to be formed from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, an area largely populated by Inuit, a people native to the region. ...


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Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik took a leave of absence in September 1998 after his physician reported that he was suffer-ing from depression caused by overwork and the stress of holding together Norway's minority, center-right government. ...


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The Polish parliament on Jan. 8, 1998, approved by a large majority a treaty with the Vatican. The treaty, which formally set down relations between the predominantly Catholic country and the Roman Catholic Church, was signed by President Aleksander ...


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The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 19, 1998, voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. The House voted 228 to 206 on the charge of perjury and 221 to 212 on the charge of obstruction of justice. ...


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The PCP government of Premier Pat Binns continued to move slowly toward balancing the provincial budget. The budget, presented in March, contained a deficit of $3.4 million on a spending plan of $782.2 million. The PCP's victory in legislative ...


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People who are discharged from psychiatric hospitals and who do not abuse alcohol or drugs are no more likely than other members of their communities to behave violently, according to a study published in May 1998. Researchers led by sociologist Henry ...


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The Institute of Medicine (IOM), an agency of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., recommended in April 1998 that women who might become pregnant should take 400 micrograms of folic acid per day to reduce the risks of neural tube ...


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On Dec. 13, 1998, the citizens of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico voted on a nonbinding referendum that was intended to send a message to the U.S. government about how Puerto Ricans want to define their political status. Most political observers ...


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The World Cup finals tournament, held in France in June and July, highlighted international soccer in 1998. In the championship match, the host country defeated the reigning champ and strong favorite, Brazil, 3-0. In Major League Soccer, the North ...


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In 1998, President Nelson R. Mandela served his last full year as South Africa's head of state. Mandela, who resigned as leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in December 1997, planned to retire from the presidency after a general ...


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The United States and Russia, after more than a decade of preparation, began building an international space station in 1998. The U.S. space shuttle flew five missions during the year, including one with John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit ...


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The country's economy continued to perform strongly in 1998, helping Spain to qualify for participation in the launch of a single currency, the euro, with 10 other European countries at the start of 1999. Economists forecast that economic output would ...


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The government of Prime Minister Goran Persson won a narrow reelection victory in 1998 after a campaign that focused on the future of Sweden's welfare system. Persson's Social Democratic Party promised to protect benefits and spend an additional $1.1 ...


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The three-year trend toward the merging of long-distance and local-service telephone companies in the United States continued through 1998. The Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 had been legislated to boost competition in both local and ...


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Violence and ethnic cleansing erupted in the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1998. Kosovo, where 90 percent of the 2.2 million people are ethnic Albanians, enjoyed limited autonomy under Serbia until 1990. (Yugoslavia has been comprised of two ...


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The Yukon's largest employer, the Anvil Range mine at Faro, closed on Jan. 16, 1998, because of falling world prices for its zinc and lead output. Shut down in 1996 for more than one year, the mine had struggled after reopening in November 1997. ...


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Congo (Kinshasa) in 1998 suffered through a second civil war in less than three years. The fighting dashed the promises of peace and eventual prosperity in the former Zaire raised by the overthrow in May 1997 of long-time dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. ...


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The most spectacular architectural event of 1998 in the United States was the October reopening of New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Constructed in 1913 as the gateway to New York City, the terminal quickly became an American landmark as well as ...


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In 1998, the art world was dominated by the issue of art plundered from public and private collections throughout Europe by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II (1939-1945). Much of the art was confiscated from Jews who were ...


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In June 1998, delegates meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the annual conference of the American Symphony Orchestra League, an association of 350 amateur and professional orchestral groups, challenged the popular notion that classical music is dying. ...


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Malaysia struggled in 1998 with economic turmoil and political scandal. A power struggle over economic reforms led to the ouster of Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.


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Two of the oldest grain cooperatives on the Canadian prairies merged in July, in an effort to meet increasingly stiff competition in the grain-handling business. Manitoba Pool Elevators and the Alberta Wheat Pool, which had combined sales of $3.4 ...


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In April 1998, scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an agency of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, announced the first strong evidence that breast cancer can be prevented in women at high risk for the disease. The ...


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The gubernatorial elections in Mexico in 1998 provided evidence that the country was making progress in opening its political process to competition among three major parties. The long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) continued to ...


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Throughout 1998 there were a number of stand-offs between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and United Nations (UN) arms inspectors, ending with military action against Iraq in December. The stalled Arab-Israeli peace process was revived in October but ...


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Nova Scotia's governing Liberal Party and the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) each won 19 seats in legislative elections in March 1998. The election results were a stunning setback for the Liberals, who had taken 40 seats in the 1993 election. ...


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Major changes to Ontario's $14-billion educational system went forward in 1998. Premier Mike Harris's PCP government took over educational financing from local school boards, introduced a new curriculum, and revised working conditions for teachers, ...


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In February 1998, two teams of researchers announced that they had separately found microscopic fossils of embryos


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On Oct. 26, 1998, Peru and Ecuador signed a treaty that provided a peaceful resolution to a bitter territorial dispute along their common border. The conflict, dating to 1830, had led to repeated armed clashes, including a brief war in 1995.


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Joseph Estrada was elected president on May 11, 1998, with 40 percent of the vote, and began a six-year term on June 30. His nearest rival among 10 candidates, House Speaker Jose de Venecia, who was backed by retiring President Fidel V. Ramos, won ...


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Evidence that subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass was presented in June 1998 by a team of 120 physicists from 23 institutions in the United States and Japan. The physicists, headed by Yoji Totsuka of the University of Tokyo, reported that ...


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A deadly ice stormthe worst natural disaster in modern Canadian historystruck southern Quebec, eastern Ontario, and parts of New Brunswick from Jan. 5 to Jan. 9, 1998. The storm, which left at least 25 people dead, dumped almost 4 inches ...


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The explosive growth of big radio companies continued in 1998 to be the most important trend in the United States radio industry. Companies that had begun to buy stations following the passage of the Telecommun-ications Reform Act of 1996 continued to ...


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The Republican Party was jolted by the results of the Nov. 3, 1998, congressional election. The GOP (for Grand Old Party) lost five seats in the House and failed to make gains in the Senate. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R., Georgia), under ...


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Russia began 1998 with low inflation, political compromise, and the best opportunity for economic growth since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. However, by September 1998, the country was mired in a grave financial crisis. As the Russian economy ...


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The provincial government released its fifth consecutive balanced budget in March 1998. Finance Minister Eric Cline announced that Saskatchewan's income taxes would be reduced by 2 percent to 48 percent of the federal rate, effective July 1. The ...


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Serious tensions emerged in 1998 between the United States and Saudi Arabia, the major U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf. The Saudi government repeatedly refused to allow U.S. forces to use Saudi territory for air strikes against Iraq. The United States ...


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Television networks in 1998 attempted to hold their share of the dwindling U.S. television audience by spending vast sums of money to retain control of popular programs. In January, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) agreed to pay Warner ...


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After many years of rapid growth, Thailand's depressed economy staggered from crisis to crisis in 1998. The country experienced wide-spread unemployment and bankruptcies as economic growth plummeted and the government instituted austerity measures.


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Voters in Ukraine selected a new parliament on March 29, 1998, after a campaign that had been marked by assaults on candidates and the bombing of newspaper offices. The election, which was peaceful, resulted in the retention of the existing government ...


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The Labour Party in 1998 continued its program of reforms, ranging from cut-backs in welfare programs (which cost $160 billion annually) to dramatic changes to the British constitution, giving more powers to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. ...


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The ruling Communist Party fought political corruption in 1998 and struggled to keep the country's economy afloat. Le Kha Phieu, who had been appointed general secretary of the Communist Party on Dec. 29, 1997, called corruption the greatest threat to ...


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The year 1998 was the warmest since record-keeping began in 1880, with an average temperature over the Earth's surface during the first 10 months of 1.25 F (0.7 C) above normal. Many atmospheric scientists suggested that the very strong El Nino (a ...


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The 1998 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Jose Saramago, the first Portuguese writer to be so honored. His most recent novel in English translation, Blindness


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For books, as for films, 1998 was the year of the list. In July, just after the American Film Institute published a list of the 100 greatest movies, a list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the 1900's was released by Modern Library, a ...


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A wide variety of picture books and much realistic fiction appeared in 1998. Some of the outstanding children's books of 1998 included the following:


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Filmmakers found huge success in 1998 with a new wave of movies that focused attention on historical events, including infamous war battles and sinking luxury liners. Many stars returned to the types of characters that made them famous, while others ...


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Fine works by American poets in 1998 were largely overshadowed by British poet Ted Hughes's collection, Birthday Letters,


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The popularity of rock music eroded in 1998 as public acceptance of rap music widened. While mainstream popular music continued to focus on younger fans, many young people, particularly in the United States, also became interested in an old style of ...


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The 1997-1998 theater season was vibrant on both sides of the Atlantic. Broadway enjoyed its most financially successful year in history, with theaters bringing in more revenue to New York than all the city's sports teams combined. In London, three ...


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Oceans Pavilion, the largest aquarium in Europe, opened in May 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal, as the keynote exhibit of Expo '98, the last world fair of the 1900's. The aquarium, which contains 8,000 animals of 250 species, is based on the theme that all ...


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Discord between the Indy Racing League (IRL) and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) continued in 1998. The IRL and CART remained separated by their choice of chassis design and engine formula. The IRL required all teams to use chassis and engines ...


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On July 3, 1998, the 115-foot (35-meter) powerboat Cable & Wireless Adventurer cut almost eight days off the round-the-world boating record set by the United States submarine U.S.S. Triton in 1960. The 26,000-mile (41,800-kilometer) journey, which ...


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Walter Ray Williams, Jr., of Stockton, California, took 1998 Player of the Year honors for the third straight season on the men's Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour. Aleta Sill of Dearborn, Michigan, ended the season with nearly $1 million in ...


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More boxing news occurred outside the ring during 1998 than from competition between fighters in major bouts. The ongoing suspension of Mike Tyson, the fight game's best-known heavyweight, and the legal troubles of Don King, the controversial ...


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Mark O'Meara was named Golfer of the Year by the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America in 1998, even though David Duval took four tournaments and was the year's top money winner, with earnings of just under $2.5 million. O'Meara won only ...


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Mark Morris's staging of the opera Platee, performed only three times in June at the Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, was the most critically acclaimed dance performance of 1998. It made a great impression not only for its choreographic ...


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In 1998, the fashion industry continued to long for the glory days of the 1980's, when elaborate clothes and such nuances as skirt lengths aroused women's passions. Sales in both the haute couture (made-to-order) and ready-to-wear markets remained ...


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In August 1998, United States President Bill Clinton established the President's Council on Food Safety to develop a five-year plan to improve federal food safety activities. The move followed a report by the National Academy of Sciences in ...


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In April 1998, the British Library opened its new $843-million complex in London after moving half of its 12 million books from the British Museum, which had been the library's home for 151 years. Although architecture critics gave the library mixed ...


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Magazines aimed at specialized interests dominated the market in new titles and fueled the boom in magazine publishing, according to a March 1998 report on the United States magazine industry. The report, by journalism professor Samir A. Husni of the ...


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Patricia Smith, a columnist with The Boston Globe,


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Nobel Prizes in literature, peace, the sciences, and economics were awarded in October 1998 by the Norwegian Storting


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In April 1998, Philadelphia's last large locally owned bank was purchased by First Union Corporation, of Charlotte, North Carolina. The United States Federal Reserve, an independent agency of the U.S. government that oversees the nation's banking ...


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On Jan. 2, 1998, the new unified City of Toronto was born. Court challenges, opposition in Ontario's provincial legislature, and vehement citizen protests had failed to halt the creation of Canada's most populous city.


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The city government of Washington, D.C., showed significant improvements in 1998. Audits of 1997 finances revealed that the city had a budget surplus for the first time since 1993. While a financial control board appointed by the United States ...


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The United States banking industry began 1998 with strong profits. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a government agency that insures deposits at U.S. banks and savings and loans, reported that in the first six months of the year, the ...


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Hong Kong opened its Chek Lap Kok International Airport on July 6, 1998. The airport rests on a 3,084-acre (1,248-hectare) man-made island that was constructed from two smaller, natural islands. The airport's passenger terminal, designed by British ...


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The financial crises that afflicted Japan and Southeast Asia in 1998 triggered economic problems in many cities in Asia. The economic trouble resulted in a sharp cut in the cost of living in several of these cities. Rankings by the Corporate Resources ...


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Farmers in the United States in 1998 experienced the downside of the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act. The act, passed by Congress in 1996, ended government restrictions on planting corn, cotton, rice, and wheat and reduced ...


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On Oct. 4, 1998, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 67, of the Social Democratic Party won election to a second, four-year term. Political experts believed that Brazilian voters granted Cardoso a second term with the hope that the man who had led ...


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World prices of crude oil fell to less than $10 a barrel in December 1998, down from more than $20 a barrel in early 1997. The low oil prices, caused by abundant supplies and a slackening in the growth of global energy demand, was matched by sharp ...


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Representatives from more than 150 countries met in November 1998 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and agreed to set rules for enforcing cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases by late 2000. Such gases, generated by the burning of fossil fuels, are blamed by ...


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In October 1998, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimated that the world population had grown by about 78 million people in 1997. The rate of increase in the population was a slight drop from the average annual increase of 81 million in ...


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An ongoing conflict between the United Nations (UN) and Iraq culminated on Dec. 16, 1998, when the United States and the United Kingdom launched a four-day attack against Iraqi military sites. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President Bill ...


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Real Quiet, a horse purchased for only $17,000, won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 1998. He fell short of becoming history's 12th Triple Crown winner when he lost the Belmont Stakes, finishing second, by a nose, to Victory Gallop. ...


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Figure skating captivated the sporting world in 1998 whenever American skaters Tara Lipinski, 15, and Michelle Kwan, 17, competed against each other. The pair's ultimate showdown went to Lipinski, who scored the biggest victory of her career on Feb. ...


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Hermann Maier of Austria dominated World Cup and Olympic Alpine skiing throughout 1998. At the 1998 Olympic men's downhill event on February 12, he also gave the sport one of the year's spectacular moments. Maier went airborne off a turn, spun out of ...


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The 1998 sports year was highlighted by the setting of new baseball milestones, including a spectacular home-run record. But the year was also marred by several incidents of athletes using performance-enhancing drugs. One incident nearly stopped the ...


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Athletes from the United States took 14 gold medals--their best showing in 20 years--at the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia, Jan. 7 to 18, 1998. The U.S. team won the most medals--24. Australia was second with 20 medals, 7 of them ...


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Chess champion Garry Kasparov of Russia, whom most experts considered the best player in the world, formed a new world chess organization in April 1998. The World Chess Council (WCC) was expected to bring an end to the Professional Chess Association ...


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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, and music were awarded on April 14, 1998, by Colum-bia University in New York City on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.


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Retail toy sales in the United States in 1998 rose about 5 percent over 1997 sales. Low interest rates, job growth, low unemployment, and rising home ownership boosted consumer confidence, despite stock market adjustments in late summer and the ...


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Dallas voters narrowly approved a referendum on Jan. 17, 1998, for a $230-million professional sports and entertainment arena northwest of the city's downtown. The arena was planned to accommodate the Dallas Stars hockey team and the Dallas Mavericks ...


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The first African American mayor of Houston, Lee Brown, took office on Jan. 2, 1998. Brown had defeated businessman Robert Mosbacher in a runoff for the mayor's seat in December 1997. The new mayor succeeded Bob Lanier, who stepped down after three ...


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On May 26, 1998, the Los Angeles City Council approved a $4.1-billion budget. The budget included additional funds for the city's fire department and the city attorney's office. For the first time since 1993, the city provided no extra funding for ...


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In 1998, the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani proposed that new baseball stadiums be built for the Yankees and the Mets, New York City's two professional baseball teams. A new Yankee stadium on Manhattan's West Side, projected to cost $1.1 ...


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The world economy slowed in 1998 as a contagious financial crisis and recession spread across much of Asia, devastated Russia, leaped to Brazil, and threatened the economies of most major industrial nations by autumn 1998. Eventually, many countries, ...


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Global trade went through severe upheavals in 1998, as the financial crisis that began in Southeast Asia in 1997 pushed many Asian nations into deep economic downturns in 1998. The crisis spread to Russia and Latin America and distorted normal trading ...


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The United States economy remained relatively stable in 1998, a year in which many other countries sank into recession. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in November the country's unemployment rate was 4.4 percent. Despite the low ...


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A worldwide economic crisis threatened the strength of factories in the United States in 1998. U.S. manufacturing, which posted strong gains in early 1998, was weakened by the global economic contagion late in the year.


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Montreal and surrounding communities were plunged into darkness, cold, and near-chaos when a deadly ice storm struck on Jan. 5, 1998. The storm--the worst natural disaster in modern Canadian history--covered most of eastern Ca-nada with up to 4 inches ...


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Stock market investors in the United States took a quick, somewhat scary round trip in 1998. Fears of global recession drove major stock indexes down 20 percent from their all-time highs between mid-July and the end of August. Three rounds of interest ...


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President Bill Clinton opened a national debate on the soundness of the social security system in his State of the Union Address to Congress on Jan. 27, 1998. The president said that Congress should not spend any federal budget surpluses until new ...


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In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court provided clearer rules on sexual harassment in the workplace and in public schools through several key rulings. The justices canceled the president's power to veto individual items from spending bills and expanded ...


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The United States Congress joined with President Bill Clinton to reform the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 1998. The overhaul was an attempt to promote efficiency in the tax agency and make it more taxpayer-friendly. President Clinton signed the ...


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In 1998, the United Nations (UN) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that established a standard for protecting human rights throughout the world. The UN General Assembly approved the document on ...


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The United States Supreme Court ruled in June 1998 that state prison inmates were protected by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The case was filed by Ronald Yeskey. Yeskey was unable to participate in a Pennsylvania prison boot camp ...


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A public-health study reported in September 1998 that the number of college students in the United States who engaged in binge drinking remained constant at about 40 percent from 1993 to 1997. Binge drinking is defined, for men, as consuming at least ...


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On Jan. 13, 1998, St. Therapon Chapel, a sacred Eastern Orthodox shrine in Istanbul, Turkey, was looted and burned, and the chapel's caretaker was killed. The crime followed a December 1997 bombing at the Patriarchal Center, the headquarters of the ...


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Television stations in the United States began the transition to digital broadcasting in November 1998, when stations in most of the nation's 42 major TV markets began transmitting digital signals along with their traditional analog signal. All ...


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On Oct. 23, 1998, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya, called on his followers to give up the violent campaign begun in 1992 to establish Islamic rule in Egypt. Abdel Rahman issued his ...


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Israel observed its 50th anniversary as a nation in 1998, and Jewish communities around the world held celebrations, featuring Israel's most prominent performers and dignitaries. For many Jews, the anniversary celebrations were a testament to the ...


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In June 1998, the Lutheran World Federation, an international commun-ion representing some 57 million Lutherans, reached an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church about a theological controversy that led to the founding of the Protestant faith in ...


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Pope John Paul II began a five-day visit to Cuba on Jan. 21, 1998, that was significant for both the Roman Catholic Church and the government of President Fidel Castro. Since Cuba's Communist revolution in 1959, Cuba's Catholic Church had faced ...


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Austria assumed a greater role in European affairs in 1998. The country held the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU) in the second half of the year, the first time it had done so since joining the 15-nation bloc in 1995.


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Voters in Azerbaijan elected Heydar Aliyev to a second term as president on Oct. 11, 1998. Aliyev, 75, who headed Azerbaijan's Communist Party during the Soviet era, won 76 percent of the vote. Five top opposition candidates boycotted the balloting, ...


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Mounting crime in 1998 caused concern among Bangladesh's business community as well as among human-rights groups. The six chambers of commerce in Bangladesh released a joint statement in May acknowledging that "trade and industry is deeply worried ...


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The isolation of Belarus from the international community deepened during 1998, owing largely to the rule of President Aleksandr Lukashenko. In April, Lukashenko's government ordered ambassadors from 22 countries to vacate their residences in the ...


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A brief escape by Belgium's most notorious criminal suspect destabilized the government in 1998. Marc Dutroux, the alleged leader of a criminal ring uncovered in 1996, escaped in April 1998 while awaiting trial on charges of abducting and sexually ...


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Prime Minister Ivan Kostov identified administrative reform and privatization as his government's priority projects for 1998. However, tensions between the ruling coalition and the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, which was ousted as the ruling ...


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In October 1998, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a leftist party founded by former Salvadoran rebels, nominated former rebel leader Facundo Guardado as its presidential candidate for March 1999 elections. Hoping to attract the ...


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On Nov. 17, 1998, the Estonian parliament voted to ban so-called "electoral alliances" between political parties. The Estonian constitution specifies that a party must win at least 5 percent of the national vote to qualify for a seat in the ...


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President Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt on Feb. 9, 1998. Followers of former Georgian president Zviad Gamsa-khurdia, who died under mysterious cir-cumstances after a failed 1994 coup (overthrow), were blamed for the attack, ...


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On April 26, 1998, Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, 75, a human-rights leader in Guatemala, was bludgeoned to death, apparently with a concrete block. Gerardi's murder and the subsequent investigation aroused old hatreds in a country that ...


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The center-right Young Democrats-Civic Party won 148 of the 386 seats in Hungary's legislature in national elections held in May 1998. Their allies, the rightist Hungarian Democratic Forum, won 17 seats. The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Gyula ...


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Iran's conservative Islamic clerics moved against supporters of moderate President Mohammed Khatami in 1998. In June, the Iranian parliament, headed by Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori, the conservative candidate who lost the 1997 presidential election to ...


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On June 3, 1998, more than 100 people died in Western Europe's worst train accident in more than 10 years. Traveling at 125 miles (200 kilometers) per hour, a German Inter-City Express derailed near Eschede in northern Germany and demolished a bridge, ...


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The United States and Great Britain launched a series of air and missile strikes against military and security targets in Iraq beginning on Dec. 16, 1998, after United Nations (UN) inspectors reported that they had been denied full access to suspected ...


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Secretary of Energy Federico F. Pena resigned his Cabinet position in June 1998, citing personal and family reasons for leaving. Pena had served as secretary of transportation during President Bill Clinton's first term (1993 1997). President Clinton ...


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On June 4, 1998, United States Dis-trict Court Judge Richard Matsch sentenced Terry L. Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A federal jury in Denver, Colorado, ...


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In July 1998, the United States House of Representatives approved a bill designed, in part, to increase protections for patients who belong to managed-care plans, such as Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's). Managed care is a form of health ...


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The U.S. Census Bureau reported in April 1998 that approximately 25.8 million U.S. residents--9.7 percent of the population --had been born in other countries. The percentage was the highest since 1930. The bureau reported that 27 percent of the ...


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In March 1998, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of Viagra, or sildenafil citrate, the first pill to treat impotence (the inability to maintain an erection). Impotence affected as many as 30 million men in the ...


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The number of children in the United States attending public and private elementary and secondary schools reached a record 52.7 million in 1998. This number was a 500,000-student increase over the previous high of 52.2 million in 1997. The U.S. ...


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The adult prison population in the United States grew by 5.2 percent in 1997, according to a U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report released in August 1998. The BJS reported that there were 1,244,554 inmates in state and ...


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In April 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed hazard-control programs to prevent the contamination of fruit and vegetable juices. The programs would require manufacturers to use stringent cleaning methods to reduce levels of ...


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Several popular Republican governors retained their offices following the November 1998 elections. Democrats, who had feared a backlash in the wake of controversy surrounding a relationship between President Bill Clinton and a White House intern, ...


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President Bill Clinton announced in May 1998 that the number of people receiving welfare benefits in the United States dropped from 12.2 million to 8.9 million people since the federal welfare system was overhauled in 1996. Some political analysts ...


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Four women and four men won Grand Slam tennis titles in 1998. The year was characterized by stiffer competition in the women's professional tour, which created an up-surge of fan interest, while interest in men's tennis, particularly in the United ...


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Sprint champion Marion Jones of the United States, middle-distance star Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, and long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia were the outstanding track and field athletes of 1998. The three athletes shared $1 million ...


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The Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim militia group composed primarily of Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in August 1998, a major victory in its war against an alliance of several small ethnic groups. ...


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Albania continued to experience political and civil turmoil in 1998. The opposition Democratic Party boycotted parliament for much of the year. In January, Prime Minister Fatos Nano and other leaders of Albania's ruling Socialist Party charged the ...


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In September 1998, Algerian President Liamine Zeroual unexpectedly announced that he would hold presidential elections before February 1999. Many observers were stunned by the announcement and speculated that Zeroual's early departure was due to a ...


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President Levon Ter-Petrosyan resigned on Feb. 3, 1998, amid fierce opposition to his plan for ending the war with neighboring Azerbaijan. As a cease-fire between the two nations began its fifth year in May 1998, Armenian troops continued to occupy ...


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The National League for Democracy (NLD), which had won a 1990 parliamentary election in Myanmar, then known as Burma, struggled in 1998 to wrest power from the governing junta (military group that holds power after a coup or revolution). The ...


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The Cambodian People's Party (CPP), headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, won 41 percent of the vote in the July 1998 elections. The CPP captured 64 of 122 seats in the parliament, falling short of the two-thirds needed to form a new government. The two ...


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On Aug. 7, 1998, Andres Pastrana Arango, of the Conservative Party, was sworn in as president of Colombia for a four-year term. In the week leading up to Pastrana's heavily guarded inauguration, about 200,000 leftist rebels carried out daring and ...


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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 228 to 206 on Dec. 19, 1998, to impeach President Bill Clinton on one charge of perjury. Representatives voted 221 to 212 to impeach the president on a charge of obstruction of justice. The House rejected a ...


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President Vaclav Havel, elected to another five-year term in January 1998, underwent emergency surgery in April. After having additional surgery in July, Havel collapsed in August and nearly died of blood poisoning brought on by pneumonia. After his ...


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Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa criticized the United States in August 1998 for the American bombing of what U.S. officials claimed was a chemical-weapons factory in Sudan and a terrorist facility in Afghanistan. The U.S. officials said they had ...


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On December 16, 1998, United States and British forces launched four days of air and missile strikes against military and industrial sites in Iraq. United States President Bill Clinton claimed he ordered the strikes because Iraqi President Saddam ...


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The Jordanian press reported in July 1998 that King Hussein, the ruler of Jordan since 1952, had lymphatic cancer. In August 1998, the king, who was undergoing chemotherapy in the United States, granted his brother and heir, Crown Prince Hassan, ...


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President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed a series of constitutional amendments aimed at liberalizing Kazakhstan's political system in his address to parliament on Sept. 30, 1998. The proposals included privatizing some state-owned holdings, ...


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Tensions with Russia over the status of Russians in Latvia escalated in early 1998. Relations with Russia had been strained since 1994, when a controversial law effectively denied Latvian citizenship to some 700,000 ethnic Russians still living in ...


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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud named Salim Hoss, a United States-trained economist, as prime minister in December 1998 after Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri suddenly resigned. Analysts said Hariri appeared to have lost to Lahoud in a power struggle, ...


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New Zealand's coalition government, consisting of the National Party and the New Zealand First Party, collapsed on Aug. 12, 1998. The crisis occurred when members of the New Zealand First Party walked out of a Cabinet meeting during a dispute over ...


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Three suicide bombers crashed a truck through the gates of Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple on Jan. 25, 1998, killing themselves and 13 other people. The act set off ethnic riots. The nation, which is mostly Sinhalese Buddhist, reacted with outrage ...


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Sudanese authorities demanded a United Nations (UN) inquiry after United States missiles destroyed the El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries factory in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, on Aug. 20, 1998. U.S. officials claimed that traces of Empta, a ...


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The country's largest banks agreed in 1998 to settle legal claims that they and the Swiss government had profited from gold dealings with Nazi Germany during World War II (1939-1945). The agreement ended two years of negotiations with Jewish ...


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Syrian President Hafiz al-Assad took several steps in 1998 to reduce his country's international isolation. In July, Assad traveled to France, which, with Egypt, had announced its support in May for an international summit on the Arab-Israeli peace ...


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The financial crisis that devastated many Asian countries in 1998 failed to drag down Taiwan's resilient economy. Taiwan's economic growth increased by approximately 5 percent, while other countries in the region sank into recession. Taiwan's ability ...


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In November 1998, the coalition government of Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz collapsed after losing a no-confidence vote in the parliament. Opposition lawmakers accused Yilmaz of corruption, including helping organized- crime figures purchase a ...


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President Islam Karimov consolidated his power base and signaled a new offensive against Islamic fundamentalism in 1998. In the fall, Karimov dismissed a series of ministers linked to powerful Uzbek clan groups, including Kayim Khakulov, the head of ...


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Hugo Chavez Frias, 44, a retired army colonel, was elected president of Venezuela on Dec. 6, 1998. Chavez, a leftist leader, was imprisoned from 1992 to 1994 after attempting a military overthrow of the government. In his presidential campaign, Chavez ...


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The Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago completed a $1-billion natural gas processing plant at Point Fortin in southern Trinidad in 1998. The plant represented the largest single industrial investment ever made in a Caribbean nation. (LNG ...


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The prospect of parliamentary elections in September dominated political developments in Slovakia during 1998. After President Michal Kovac's term expired in March, several attempts to elect a successor failed when no candidate received the required ...


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The democratically elected government of Sierra Leone was forcibly restored in early 1998 after the military regime that had overthrown it in May 1997 was ousted. However, the return of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah on March 10, 1998, failed to end ...


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President Robert Mugabe in 1998 faced his worst political and economic problems since taking office in 1980, when Zimbabwe gained its independence. A 50-percent unemployment rate, a 40-percent inflation rate, a deteriorating currency, and growing ...


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The discovery of the skeleton of a child who may have been descended from both Neanderthals--prehistoric humans who vanished from the fossil record approximately 30,000 years ago--and human beings who looked like people today, was announced in April ...


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The earliest known phonetic alphabet (an alphabet in which spoken sounds are represented by symbols or letters) is considerably older than archaeologists once believed, according to research reported in November 1999. Archaeologist John Darnell and ...


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Fernando de la Rua of the center-left Alianza (Alliance) coalition was sworn in for a five-year term as president on Dec. 10, 1999. He had campaigned on a promise to end government corruption and the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by many ...


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Conflicts flared across southern Asia during 1999, and armed tensions escalated in the northeast. But 1999 also saw a number of Asian nations recover peacefully from two years of severe economic troubles.


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In 1999, astronomers discovered the first system of planets orbiting another sunlike star. Data from orbiting satellites provided close-up views of Mars and of Jupiter's moon Europa. Astronomers also discovered new moons around Uranus and watched as ...


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On Nov. 6, 1999, Australians voted in a referendum on whether the country would remain a constitutional monarchy or become a republic. Australia continued to enjoy prosperity during 1999, despite the economic difficulties of its main Asian trading ...


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In late October 1998, torrential rains from Hurricane Mitch left more than 4,000 people dead and at least 1,300 others missing in Nicaragua. In western Nicaragua near the Honduran border, the wall of the water-filled crater of the Casita Volcano gave ...


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The death of military dictator General Sani Abacha on June 8, 1998, reportedly from a heart attack, provided a window of opportunity for democratic reform in Nigeria. After a tentative start, Abacha's successor, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, instituted ...


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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared Pakistan a nuclear power in May 1998, after the government conducted the first underground nuclear tests in the country's 51-year history. The tests came two weeks after India--Pakistan's neighbor and ...


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Portugal enjoyed one of the strongest economies in Europe in 1998. The government of Prime Minister Antonio Guterres continued its policies of reducing the budget deficit and privatizing state-owned companies. Those policies helped interest rates and ...


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Conflict within Romania's four-party governing coalition threatened to paralyze the government in early 1998. On March 30, Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea resigned under heavy pressure from the coalition's junior partners, who had criticized Ciorbea for ...


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Rwanda's Tutsi minority and Hutu majority remained bitterly divided in 1998, four years after the slaughter of an estimated 500,000 people, mostly Tutsi, by Hutu extremists. During the year, Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated government, which seized power in ...


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A series of civil wars in the 1990's brought death and devastation to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


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Over the past 1,000 years, astronomy has radically changed both our understanding of what the universe is and how it works.


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Much of the world's history has been shaped by nations' imperial ambitions, but the age of empires may be over.


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Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio died in March 1999 at age 84.


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Nearly 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare remains a reigning king of popular culture.


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The majority of African countries enjoyed relative peace and stability in 1999. However, violent disorder continued to afflict some areas of the continent, as civil conflict escalated in Angola, large-scale fighting continued between Ethiopia and ...


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Researchers from the United States and Uganda announced in July 1999 the discovery of a simple, low-cost treatment for reducing the likelihood that a pregnant woman infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, will transmit the virus to her infant ...


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Alberta, which enjoyed the healthiest public revenues in 1999 of any Canadian province--thanks to strong oil and gas earnings--moved in March to establish a provincially controlled income tax system with a flat rate of 11 percent. Canada's provinces ...


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Cars and light trucks sold at a rapid pace in 1999. Automobile industry analysts predicted in late 1999 that a record 17 million vehicles would be sold on the U.S. market during the year. The previous sales record, 16.1 million vehicles, was set in ...


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Booming airline traffic in 1999 led to overbooked flights, delays, frayed tempers, and even "air rage" assaults on airline staff by disgruntled passengers. In June, major airlines responded to months of U.S. Congressional hearings and the threat of a ...


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The New York Yankees' second straight sweep of the World Series, record-breaking hitting, and an umpires' strategy that backfired dominated headlines in Major League Baseball (MLB) during 1999. Baseball fans also witnessed thrilling post-season games ...


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First-time champions emerged at every major level during the 1998-1999 basketball season. The San Antonio Spurs won the National Basketball Association (NBA) title, ending the three-year reign of the Chicago Bulls. The University of Connecticut won ...


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A team of biologists at the University of Sydney in Australia reported in August 1999 that they had discovered evidence that pushed back the beginning of complex life forms on Earth by at least half a billion years, to 2.7 billion years ago. The ...


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In February 1999, the Bosnian parliament elected Svetozar Mihajlovic as the Serbian co-prime minister and reelected Haris Silajdzic as the Muslim co-prime minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Bosnia's federal government rotates between two prime ...


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The U.S. Senate on Feb. 12, 1999, acquitted President Bill Clinton on impeachment charges passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in December 1998, allowing the president to complete his term. The Senate voted 45 to 55 on one charge of perjury and ...


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The wars that ravaged central Africa in the 1990's devastated not only human populations but also threatened the existence of native wildlife. Fighting in the region caused tourism to grind to a halt in 1999.


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Crime statistics released in November 1999 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that serious crime declined by 11 percent in the first six months of 1999, compared with statistics for the same period in 1998. According to the FBI ...


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President Franjo Tudjman died on Dec. 10, 1999, following a long battle with cancer. Tudjman led Croatia to independence in 1991, but he was widely criticized for his authoritarian style of rule and failure to foster democratic institutions. Many ...


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On Jan. 1, 1999, Cubans celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Communist revolution in Cuba. Government leaders and many citizens noted advances of the past 40 years, including the highest literacy rate and lowest infant mortality rate in Latin ...


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A split developed within the Democratic Party in 1999 over the choice of a presidential nominee in 2000 after former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley (D., New Jersey) challenged Vice President Al Gore for the nomination.


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Germany experienced both economic and political difficulties in 1999. A sluggish economy and near-record unemployment levels contributed to dissent in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition government.


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Greece in 1999 was dominated by changing relations with its neighbor and Aegean rival, Turkey. The government of Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis was shaken in February by the arrest by Turkey of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish movement ...


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President Rene Preval of Haiti announced on Jan. 11, 1999, that he would rule by decree. He dissolved a deadlocked parliament, which had left Haiti without a fully functional government since June 1996. The political stalemate had made it impossible ...


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The retirement of superstar Wayne Gretzky and the Dallas Stars' first Stanley Cup championship were the headline stories of the 1998-1999 National Hockey League (NHL) season. The Stars defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 2-1, on June 20, 1999, when Brett ...


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Parliamentary elections in 1999 returned Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to office at the head of a 24-party National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Vajpayee led the coalition in an election campaign that climaxed in five rounds of polling over a ...


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An ongoing controversy regarding how the United States government manages trust-fund accounts for Native Americans grew more complicated in 1999. In January, Paul Homan, who was appointed in 1995 to correct past problems and develop an efficient ...


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Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad al-Qadhafi took steps in 1999 to end both his political isolation and the United Nations (UN) sanctions imposed against Libya in 1992. The UN had instituted the sanctions to pressure Libyan officials into turning over ...


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Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius resigned on May 3, 1999, after President Valdas Adamkus sharply criticized him in a nationwide broadcast. Adamkus accused Vagnorius of ruling in an authoritarian manner and ignoring the country's economic stagnation.


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The National Front coalition headed by Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammad won parliamentary elections on Nov. 29, 1999. The victory gave Mahathir, who had led Malaysia for 18 years, another five-year mandate. He announced that the term in office ...


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Canada's longest-serving provincial premier, Gary Filmon, lost office in an election on September 21. The PCP government of Filmon, who had hoped to win his fourth consecutive election victory, was narrowly defeated by the opposition NDP, under former ...


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Officials with the Human Genome Project (HGP), an international, government-supported effort to decode the human genome (total amount of genetic information), announced in March 1999 that a "working draft" of the genome would be completed by early ...


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United States Surgeon General David Satcher issued a "call to action" in July 1999 to prevent suicide, the ninth leading cause of death in the United States. About 31,000 people committed suicide in 1996, compared to 20,000 victims of homicide. In ...


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The Giant Mine in Yellowknife, the territorial capital, closed in October, the victim of falling gold prices. The price of gold tumbled from U.S. $500 an ounce in 1987 to U.S. $320 in 1999. The owner of the mine, Royal Oak Mines Inc., of Kirkland, ...


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Norway struggled in 1999 to cope with the worldwide move toward a global economy. Kvaerner ASA, one of Norway's largest companies, announced in April that it would sell its shipbuilding business and other unprofitable operations and reduce its work ...


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The Liberal government of Premier Russell MacLellan, which had been supported since March 1998 by 13 PCP representatives in Nova Scotia's legislature, lost that support in a fight over the budget for fiscal year 1999-2000. Finance Minister Don Downe's ...


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The tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures in 1999 remained relatively stable, though somewhat on the cool side, compared with the El Nino and La Nina years of 1997 and 1998. El Nino is a warming of tropical Pacific waters, which occurs every three to ...


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On Jan. 24, 1999, a panel of inquiry formed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to expel six delegates who had accepted more than $440,000 in bribes and illicit gifts in exchange for awarding the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, ...


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After four years in office, the PCP government of Premier Mike Harris swept to victory in elections held on June 3. The PCP win gave Ontario its first back-to-back majority government in 30 years. The Progressive Conservatives captured 59 of 103 ...


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Scientists reported several new discoveries from the ancient lake-bed sediments of the Yixian Formation at Liaoning, China, in 1999. Since the mid-1990's, these sediments have yielded fossil remains of what may have been feathered dinosaurs, primitive ...


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The Peruvian General Workers Confederation, the nation's largest union, led a general strike on April 28, 1999, to protest President Alberto K. Fujimori's plan to run for a third term in 2000 in violation of Peru's Constitution. The union also blamed ...


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In 1999, President Joseph Estrada's plans to amend the Constitution provoked the largest demonstrations in the Philippines since the 1986 overthrow of then-president Ferdinand E. Marcos.


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Three teams of physicists in 1999 demonstrated how to reduce the speed of light to a virtual crawl. Light is normally the fastest-moving form of energy. In February, a group led by Lene Hau of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reported ...


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Poland joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 12, 1999. European Union (EU) officials encouraged Poland to speed up economic reforms in 1999 to hasten its entry into the EU. In April, the World Bank agreed to a $30-million loan ...


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The U.S. Senate on Feb. 12, 1999, acquitted President Bill Clinton of impeachment charges passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in December 1998. The Senate voted 45 in favor of and 55 against on one charge of perjury and 50 to 50 on an ...


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Glen Clark, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), resigned as premier on Aug. 21, 1999. He was British Columbia's third premier in eight years to be forced from office because of scandal. The resignation followed a revelation, made one day earlier ...


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No great issues dominated political discussions in Canada in 1999, and the national government did not introduce major policy initiatives during the year. Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his Liberal Party, in power since 1993, remained firmly in ...


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Chemist Richard N. Zare of Stanford University in Stanford, California, announced in March 1999 that he had found a solution to a problem involving one of the most basic principles of chemistry--that two chemicals cannot react unless their molecules ...


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No presidential candidate won a majority of votes in the national election on Dec. 11, 1999. Ricardo Lagos of the Socialist-Christian Democratic Party and Joaquin Lavin of the right-wing Union for Chilean Progress were scheduled to face off in a ...


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The Communist Party on Oct. 1, 1999, celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. President Jiang Zemin, leader of the Communist Party, presided at an anniversary parade in Beijing, the capital. He was accompanied ...


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Personal computers (PC's) designed with a new, stylish look and with more user-friendly features went on the market in the autumn of 1999. The new PC's were sleeker than in the past and featured colorful, translucent plastic cases. The designs were ...


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The economy of Denmark slowed significantly during 1999, arousing concern that the country was suffering because of its decision not to join the single European currency, the euro. The Danish government predicted that gross domestic product


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Both Democrats and Republicans claimed trend-setting victories at state and local levels in 1999 during off-year elections on November 2. One of the most historic changes occurred in Virginia, where the Republican Party won control of both houses of ...


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Instability caused by the breakup of the former Yugoslavia returned to haunt Europe in 1999. Serbia's attempt to crush an independence movement in its Kosovo province led to civilian massacres, prompting the United States and its Western European ...


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Computers continued to influence college football in 1999 and had a surprisingly good effect on a season in which no genuinely great team stood out. Professional football was brightened in January by the Denver Broncos' second consecutive Super Bowl ...


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France endured a year of political turmoil and scandal in 1999 that tarnished several of the country's major parties. The worst incident occurred in November when Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn was forced to resign because of allegations of ...


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In 1999, carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases that trap solar heat in the atmosphere were at their highest atmospheric concentration of the last 420,000 years, according to a report published in June by an international team of ...


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The People's Consultative Assembly named Abdurrahman Wahid president of Indonesia on Oct. 20, 1999. With Wahid's support, the assembly elected Megawati Sukarnoputri vice president. Megawati is the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.


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The economy of Ireland continued to boom in 1999. And while Ireland's public life pulsed with a new economic and artistic vitality, the government became mired in 1999 in accusations of corruption.


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Ehud Barak, the most decorated soldier in Israeli history, was elected prime minister of Israel in May 1999. Barak, the leader of One Israel (a reconstituted and expanded version of the Labor Party), won 56 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Benjamin ...


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Italian industry in 1999 was caught up in the wave of mergers that had swept Europe since the mid-1990's. The takeover spree began in Feb-ruary 1999 when Olivetti SpA, a former typewriter company that diversified into telecommunications, made a ...


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Workers at a uranium processing plant accidentally triggered a chain reaction on Sept. 30, 1999. The accident, the worst ever to occur in Japan's nuclear power industry, took place at Tokaimura, about 85 miles (138 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. ...


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Latin America passed a demographic milestone in 1999. According to a September report by the United Nations (UN), the women of Latin America at the end of the century bore on average 2.7 children. In 1965, the women of Latin America had borne more ...


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Mexicans in 1999 experienced a presidential election campaign that resembled a political campaign in the United States, complete with party primaries, nationally televised debates, and unprecedented spending on TV advertising. The presidential ...


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Major issues in the Middle East in 1999 included an attempt by the United States to apprehend a suspected terrorist, new hope for the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, a warning about water scarcity, and political liberalization in ...


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Dissension grew among the partners of Prime Minister Wim Kok's coalition government in 1999 and cast doubt on its ability to remain in power to the end of its term in 2002. The government was criticized for its response in March 1999 to the world's ...


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Bernard Lord, 33, became the youngest premier in New Brunswick's history when his Progressive Conservatives took 44 seats in the 55-seat legislature in provincial elections on June 7. The Progressive Conservatives won 53 percent of the popular vote. ...


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Premier Brian Tobin led his Liberal Party government to a reelection victory on Feb. 9, 1999, only three years into the four-year mandate he won in 1996. Tobin denied speculation that he had called the election early in order to provide himself with ...


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The optimism that accompanied the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998 gave way to dismay in 1999, as difficulties in carrying out the terms of the agreement arose. The British Parliament finally transferred authority for local affairs ...


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For the first time in its history, the citizens of Canada's smallest province enjoyed a cut in personal taxes in 1999. Treasurer Patricia Mella announced the 1-percent cut in the tax rate in the provincial budget, introduced on April 6. On total ...


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Advances in public health and in battling infectious diseases were the major factors that increased life expectancy in the United States between 1900 and 1999, the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in ...


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United States President Bill Clinton on Dec. 3, 1999, ordered a halt to live-fire U.S. military exercises on and near the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. His action followed months of protests, after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two bombs off-target on ...


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The separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) government, hoping to put the province's financial house in order before a possible referendum on independence in 2000, balanced Quebec's budget on March 31, 1999, the end of the 1998-1999 fiscal year. The balanced ...


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After three years of frenzied consolidation, the pace of mergers and acquisitions in the United States radio industry slowed during the first eight months of 1999. But two huge transactions in September and October established 1999 as a record-setting ...


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Many Republican Party members rallied behind Texas Governor George W. Bush in 1999 as the party's prospective presidential candidate in 2000. The support followed his landslide reelection as governor. Bush, the son of former President George H. W. ...


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Spain enjoyed one of Europe's strongest economies in 1999, which economists attributed to the country's participation in the single European currency, the euro. The government forecast that Spain's gross domestic product


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Sweden enjoyed one of the strongest economic growth rates of any European country in 1999, largely because of the rapid development of its high-technology and service industries. European economists expected Sweden's gross domestic product


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The proposed merger of two giant telecommunications companies, MCI WorldCom and Sprint, epitomized the ambitious objectives of the telecommunications industry in 1999. For the fourth consecutive year, telecommunications companies aggressively pursued ...


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Television ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research, a New York City-based agency that tracks television viewership, indicated that the combined share of the viewing audience of the six major networks--ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN, and WB--dropped to an ...


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The Thai economy began growing again in 1999 after a two-year period of decline. A collapse in the value of the Thai currency, the baht, in 1997 triggered a severe recession that spread to most of the nations of East and Southeast Asia. In 1998, ...


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President Leonid Kuchma won reelection on Nov. 14, 1999, in a runoff against Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko. Kuchma received 56 percent of the vote, warding off a challenge from left-wing forces that had forged an alliance after the first ...


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Architect Michael Graves of Princeton University in New Jersey turned the $6-million restoration of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., into a civic celebration in 1999. Using aluminum scaffolding and blue mesh, Graves created a temporary ...


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The problem of art treasures looted by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II (1939-1945) remained a major issue in the art world in 1999. Spurred by international guidelines adopted in December 1998, the United States and ...


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Controversy arose among classical music fans in 1999 about the use of electronic "sound enhancement" systems to improve the acoustical shortcomings of opera houses and concert halls. In August, the management of the New York State Theater, home of the ...


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The 1999 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Gunter Grass, who joined fellow German Nobel laureates Heinrich Boll (1917-1983), Herman Hesse (1877-1962), and Thomas Mann (1875-1955). Grass is perhaps best known for his novel The Tin Drum


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A debate raged in 1999 over the future of the book. For years, computer experts had predicted that people would soon do most of their reading on computer screens. Then, in August, Terry Teachout asserted in The Wall Street Journal


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Literature for children. Fantasy books and picture books proved especially popular in 1999. Some of the outstanding children's books of 1999 included the following:


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Petroleum supplies figured prominently in the world economy in 1999. At the beginning of the year, analysts speculated that the world surplus of oil that was believed to exist in 1998 would continue throughout 1999. By the spring of 1999, however, ...


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Efforts to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, which many scientists blame for causing global warming


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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimated that the world population reached 6 billion on Oct. 12, 1999. UNFPA is a United Nations (UN) agency that promotes greater access to reproductive information and services. This milestone was recorded ...


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In 1999, the United Nations (UN) faced the challenge of restoring peace in two areas of the world in "extreme crises." One was Kosovo, a Serbian province in Yugo-slavia; and the other, East Timor, a former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia since ...


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New York City's Bronx Zoo celebrated its 100th anniversary in June 1999 with the opening of Congo Gorilla Forest. The 6.5-acre (3-hectare) exhibit, which recreates a Central African rain forest, cost $43 million and includes 300 animals representing ...


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The rivalry between the Indy Racing League (IRL) and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) continued in 1999. The rift began in 1995 with the formation of the IRL, which raced under restrictions on cost and other factors that were intended to make ...


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On Dec. 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin announced his immediate resignation as president of Russia and named Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin as acting president. The resignation came six months before the scheduled end of Yeltsin's second term. Although ...


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Premier Roy Romanow defied tradition in 1999 by calling an election for September 16, the middle of the harvest season in the agricultural province of Saskatchewan. During the campaign, grain farmers, hurt by spring flooding and low wheat prices, ...


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Saudi Arabia played a key role in forging a March 1999 agreement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an association of the world's major oil-producing nations, to cut OPEC's oil production. The move was made to raise oil ...


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Women's soccer took center stage in the summer of 1999, when the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) held its Women's World Cup tournament in the United States. The tournament ended in victory for the U.S. team, after a penalty ...


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Nelson R. Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, resigned in 1999, as he had planned, after the country held its second multiracial, nationwide election on June 2. Thabo Mbeki, deputy president since 1994 and leader of the ruling African ...


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Two Mars probes were lost in 1999. On December 3, the Mars Polar Lander, a spacecraft that was due to make a soft landing about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the planet's south pole, failed to radio back to Earth. The craft, which was launched by ...


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Tony Blair's Labour government continued to enjoy the confidence of the British public in 1999. Before taking control of Parliament in the 1997 elections, Blair's party had promoted itself as "New Labour," taking a centrist political position by ...


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Reformers and conservatives fought in 1999 for influence in the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam. About 2.3 million of Vietnam's 78 million people are party members.


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The year 1999 began with severe weather over most of the northern United States. A widespread storm brought blizzard conditions to the Midwest. Chicago received 18.6 inches (47.2 centimeters) of snow on January 2, the most on any single day since ...


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The conflict between the government of Yugoslavia (which consisted of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro) and ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo escalated into open warfare in 1999. Serb police and Yugoslav Army units entered Kosovo with a ...


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Yukon, Canada's smallest territory in land size, with a population of about 3,200, continued to experience economic problems in 1999. While two lead-zinc mines maintained operations in the Yukon, both were small and unable to make up for the loss of ...


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A civil war, which broke out in August 1998 and pitted rebel forces--supported by Rwanda and Uganda--against the forces of Congo President Laurent Kabila and four other African allies, continued in Congo (Kinshasa) through the summer of 1999. In ...


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A note of artistic hope surfaced at the end of the 1999 motion picture season, promising new challenges for filmmakers and new pleasures for audiences. After a series of formulaic summer movies that often found viewers several steps ahead of the ...


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Mark Strand, former United States poet laureate (1990-1991), won the Pulitzer Prize in April 1999 for his collection Blizzard of One


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Fans witnessed profound upheavals and significant transitions in popular music in 1999, ranging from new musical forms and artists to new technology. Younger fans in 1999, as in the past, demanded music that was all their own, rather than following ...


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The 1998-1999 theater season in New York City proved that legitimate plays still have a life on Broadway, even though Broadway's theaters had been almost exclusively the domain of musicals for several years. In striking contrast to the theatrical ...


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Farmers in the United States in 1999 harvested abundant crops despite drought in the East and hurricane-driven floods in the Southeast. However, bumper crops worldwide and lingering financial problems in Southeast Asia and Russia continued to push ...


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President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil spent 1999 juggling the demands of the public and those of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a United Nations agency based in Washington, D.C., that provides short-term credit to member nations. In ...


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The Around Alone race and the Admiral's Cup highlighted competitive sailing in 1999. Selection trials for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, held off the coast of New Zealand in late 1999, also drew the attention of sailors and fans around the world.


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Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey, captured 1999 Player of the Year honors on the men's Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour. Aleta Sill of Dearborn, Michigan, became the first player to surpass $1 million in career earnings on the ...


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Fans who hoped to see boxing become a respectable sport in 1999 were repeatedly disappointed by well-known fighters who performed poorly, by dubious judging, and by bouts that left angry audiences feeling cheated. Former heavyweight champion Mike ...


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Superb competition and thrilling finishes produced a captivating year of golf in 1999. Fans were amazed when Payne Stewart won the U.S. Open with a 15-foot (4.5-meter) uphill putt on the final hole and impressed when Tiger Woods survived the challenge ...


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Charismatic, a horse with a modest pedigree and a 31-1 long shot, won the 1999 Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. He fell short of becoming history's 12th Triple Crown winner on June 5, when he finished third in the Belmont Stakes behind Lemon ...


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Russians dominated competitive figure skating in 1999, winning every medal at the European championships and then taking every gold medal at the World Championships. Russia became the first country to win every event in the World Championships since ...


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Food safety continued to be a concern in the United States in 1999. In September, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, released a report that estimated that 76 million cases of food poisoning occur each year ...


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The British Library in London completed construction of its new facility in June 1999 with the opening of the science reading rooms. Since the new library opened its doors in April 1998, the number of people requesting access to the library's reading ...


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The magazine industry in the United States experienced a major increase in advertising income during the first half of 1999, the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), a trade group in New York City, reported in July. The MPA said that magazine ...


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Mike Gallagher, a reporter who was fired in 1998 by The Cincinnati Enquirer


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Nobel Prizes in literature, peace, the sciences, and economics were awarded in October 1999 by the Norwegian Storting


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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, and music were awarded on April 12, 1999, by Columbia University in New York City on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.


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Retail toy sales in the United States rose 6 percent in 1999 over 1998 figures. Retailers reported strong sales in September 1999, the back-to-school shopping season and early benchmark for the holiday sales period, the last three months of the year.


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The key to dealing with Toronto's problems with the homeless should be prevention, not crisis management, according to a Toronto city task force report released on Jan. 14, 1999. At least 26,000 people, including 5,300 children, use Toronto housing ...


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The new mayor of Washington, D.C., Anthony A. Williams, took office on Jan. 2, 1999. Williams inherited a city government that had been stripped of most of its powers in 1995 by a control board appointed by the United States Congress. In a vote of ...


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The Congress of the United States in 1999 overhauled one of the nation's fundamental banking laws. After years of debate and months of negotiations, Congress passed a compromise version of the Financial Services Modernization Act on November 4. ...


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The Seattle Mariners baseball team moved into a new 47,000-seat stadium, named Safeco Field, in July 1999. Safeco Field replaced the Kingdome, the domed stadium where the team had played since 1977. A series of structural problems with the roof of the ...


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Cities in Asia began to rebound in 1999 from the economic crisis they endured in 1998. Tokyo regained its place as the world's most expensive city in which to live, according to the 1999 city cost-of-living rankings by the Corporate Resources Group ...


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The world economy during 1999 did not go into a recession following the global financial crisis in 1998, as economists had feared. Instead, the world economy grew so strongly that many nations attempted to slow growth to avoid the risk of inflation.


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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military forces launched the largest allied military attack in Europe since World War II (1939-1945) on March 24, 1999. NATO fighter planes and cruise missiles bombed targets in Yugoslavia to stop the "ethnic ...


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Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin resigned his Cabinet position in May 1999. He had served in the post since 1995. The announcement occurred as the U.S. economy continued to expand and the stock market continued to rise. Some economists ...


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A California appellate court ruled on Sept. 29, 1999, that gun manufacturers can be sued for promoting a product to criminals that can then be used to commit crimes. The 2-to-1 decision by the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco was the ...


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Efforts by the United States Congress to reform Medicare, the federal program that pays for many health expenses of the elderly, failed in 1999. The reform attempts were aimed at expanding coverage of Medicare and saving the system from bankrupt-cy, ...


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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on May 3, 1999, that foreign citizens in the United States were not eligible for protection as refugees if they had committed a "serious nonpolitical crime" in their own country. The court held that commission ...


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While Democrats and Republicans both claimed to be the leading protectors of Social Security, the United States Congress did nothing in 1999 to deal with the system's long-term financial problems. Slightly rosier forecasts from the Trustees of the ...


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On June 22, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court announced four decisions concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, was designed to prevent discrimination against disabled individuals in employment and ...


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United States President Bill Clinton and the Republican-led U.S. Congress clashed in 1999 over income tax reduction, setting the stage for a likely showdown over taxes in the 2000 election campaign. Voting mainly along party lines, Congress in August ...


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On April 23, 1999, the 53-nation United Nations Human Rights Commission failed to pass a United States-sponsored measure to censure China for its human rights record. The failed motion cited "continuing reports of violations of human rights and ...


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The United States Supreme Court substantially narrowed the scope of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act in June 1999. The court ruled in three cases that people with correctable conditions--such as vision problems that can be improved with ...


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Although the overall number of Americans who used illegal drugs remained unchanged from 1997 to 1998, illegal drug use among children ages 12 to 17 declined, according to an annual United States-government survey of drug abuse released in August 1999. ...


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A new drug to kill germs that cannot be destroyed by any other antibiotic won approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 1999. Synercid, manufactured by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., of France, was the first antibiotic ...


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Lasse Kjus of Norway and Alexandra Meissnitzer of Austria were the preeminent skiers of 1999. Both excelled in the World Cup professional season and at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Vail, Colorado, in February. Austria topped the overall ...


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In 1999, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, and John Elway, three of the greatest stars in professional team sports in the United States, retired. German tennis sensation Steffi Graf also decided that 1999 would be her final year on the international ...


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Jenny Thompson of the United States was arguably the top swimmer of 1999. But a number of others, including Lenny Krayzelburg, a Russian-born American, Pieter Van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands, and South Africa's Penny Heyns also turned in record ...


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In a giant elimination-format tournament held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 30 to Aug. 29, 1999, Alexander Khalifman of Russia emerged as the 14th official World Chess Federation (FIDE) world champion. The contest was the first world championship ...


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Two major forces in American dance--one an institution, the other a choreographer--celebrated important anniversaries in 1999. The New York City Ballet, founded by George Balanchine in 1948, marked its 50th birthday by presenting an unprecedented 100 ...


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The fashion industry's primary concern in 1999 was on mergers and acquisitions, rather than traditional style elements, such as hem lengths and colors. As recently as the 1980's, most fashion firms were relatively small and flexible enough to quickly ...


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Mayor Richard M. Daley was reelected to his fourth term on Feb. 23, 1999, defeating U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D., Illinois) by a margin of more than 2 to 1. Daley has held the office longer than any mayor since his father, Richard J. Daley, who was ...


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Dallas/Fort Worth (D/FW) International Airport celebrated its 25th anniversary on Jan. 13, 1999. The celebration, however, was marred by D/FW's decline during the past two years from third to fifth busiest airport in the world in number of passengers ...


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Houston voters overwhelmingly reelected Mayor Lee Brown to a second two-year term on Nov. 2, 1999. Brown, who became the city's first African American mayor in 1997, received 67 percent of the vote. His opponents, newspaper publisher Jack Terence and ...


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Voters on June 8, 1999, approved a plan to reform Los Angeles's 74-year-old city charter to streamline city government and shift more power to the mayor's office. The new charter was scheduled to become fully effective July 1, 2000. Experts said that ...


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A controversial art exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum touched off a legal battle in 1999 over free speech, freedom of expression, and public funding for the arts. The show--"Sensations: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection"--opened October 2 ...


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Democrat John F. Street was elected to a four-year term as mayor of Philadelphia in a close vote on Nov. 2, 1999. Street, 55, had been the president of the city council for seven of the eight years that outgoing Mayor Ed Rendell held office. Street ...


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International trade flourished during 1999. A robust economy in the United States led consumers to increase purchases from other regions, which played a key role in helping foreign economies avert a general recession. In 1999, China and the United ...


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Labor prospered in the United States in 1999 as the U.S. economy continued to expand. The U.S. Department of Labor reported in December that the national unemployment remained at 4.1 percent in November, its lowest level since 1970. Unemployment ...


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The United States manufacturing industry gained strength in 1999 as factories recovered from a worldwide economic crisis in 1998. During 1999, many factories consolidated in an effort to achieve greater efficiency. Manufacturers also faced an ...


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Montreal lost its longest-serving mayor on Aug. 12, 1999, with the death of Jean Drapeau at age 83. Elected to the office eight times, Drapeau served as mayor from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 until his retirement in 1986. During his 29-year tenure, the ...


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Computer-technology stocks dominated the stock market in 1999. While the U.S. Federal Reserve System (the Fed), the central bank of the United States, cast a pall over the economy when it made three increases in interest rates in June, August, and ...


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Competition between railroads returned to the Northeastern United States in 1999 for the first time in more than 20 years. On June 1, Norfolk Southern Corporation of Norfolk, Virginia, and CSX Transportation Corporation of Jacksonville, Florida, ...


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The number of students attending elementary and secondary schools in the United States reached a record 53.2 million in September 1999--a half-million increase over 1998--while U.S. college enrollment rose to an all-time high of 14.9 million. The U.S. ...


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The United States Department of Justice in March 1999 reported that the U.S. prison population was still increasing, though at the lowest rate since 1979. In December 1998, U.S. prisons held approximately 1,894,000 inmates. Two-thirds, or about ...


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State governments ended fiscal year 1999 on June 30 with their highest financial balances since 1980. Of 44 states responding to a National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) fiscal survey, 32 reported ending fiscal 1999 with a balance exceeding ...


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The number of people on welfare in the United States continued to decline, falling to 7.3 million in August 1999. The new figure reflected a drop from 14.1 million people in 1993, the largest caseload decline in history. According to government ...


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On June 15, 1999, Patriarch Pavle and the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church called for the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic "in the interest of the people and their salvation." The church leaders condemned atrocities ...


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The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), an affiliation of home electronics and recording companies, in June 1999 announced an agreement on new design standards for portable music players that store music as computer files. The agreement, which was ...


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It is doubtful that any sport went through more ups and downs in 1999 than track and field. On the positive side, the Track & Field Association, a new professional league in the United States, was launched in June; television exposure of track and ...


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The civil war in Afghanistan continued through 1999 despite two United Nations (UN)-sponsored peace conferences that took place in March and July. The conferences, held in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, brought together Afghanistan's two main ...


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The war in the Serbian province of Kosovo dominated political life in Albania for the first half of 1999. More than 400,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from neighboring Kosovo had crossed the border into Albania by early May, having fled a campaign of ...


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Nearly 99 percent of Algerian voters on Sept. 16, 1999, endorsed a referendum on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's "civil concord" plan to end Algeria's civil war. Some 85 percent of the nation's eligible voters participated in the referendum. The ...


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The extreme right-wing Freedom Party upset political stability in Austria in 1999 when it finished second in a national election on October 3. The result dealt a blow to the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Viktor Klima and the conservative ...


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On April 17, 1999, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ukraine inaugurated a new pipeline to carry Azerbaijani oil to Europe while bypassing Russia. The pipeline marked an important step in the development of Caspian Sea oil resources, which ...


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The U.S. Justice Department on Sept. 22, 1999, filed a lawsuit against the leading cigarette makers in the United States, accusing the tobacco industry of violating federal racketeering laws by misleading the public about the dangers of smoking. The ...


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President Vaclav Havel, who continued to suffer health problems in 1999, consulted with leaders of the minority government over the economic decline and political issues plaguing the Czech Republic.


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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak won his fourth six-year term in a referendum on Sept. 26, 1999. The Interior Ministry reported that 94 percent of the votes cast approved of Mubarak's continued rule. Egypt does not have multiparty presidential ...


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Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was sworn in on June 1, 1999, for a five-year term as president of El Salvador. Flores Perez had earned a reputation as a consensus builder while presiding ...


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Voters in Estonia elected a new parliament on March 7, 1999. Economic issues dominated the campaign. Despite a sharp decline in Estonia's economic growth since August 1998, a coalition of proeconomic reform parties won 53 of the 101 seats in the ...


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In May 1999, security forces foiled a conspiracy to assassinate Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze. Attempts on his life were also made in 1995 and 1998. The latest plot was part of a planned coup


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The Latvian parliament elected Vaira Vike-Freiberga as the nation's new president on June 17, 1999. Although born in Latvia, Vike-Freiberga, a linguist and psychologist, was a citizen of Canada until four days before her election.


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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who assumed office in July 1999, declared in September that he would withdraw 1,500 Israeli troops stationed in southern Lebanon by July 2000. Israel had established a security zone in southern Lebanon in 1985 to ...


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Voters entered polling booths on Nov. 27, 1999, facing the prospect of another coalition government and uncertain about the voting system they had adopted in 1996. The first government crafted under the system, also a coalition, had collapsed in 1998, ...


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In 1999, Nigeria's military regime, headed by General Abdulsalam Abubakar, fulfilled its promise, made in 1998, to restore civilian rule to the country. The May 29, 1999, inauguration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was elected in February, ended ...


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In September 1999, the United Nations (UN) admitted the Pacific Island nations of Kiribati, Nauru, and Tonga as member states. The new members increased Pacific Islands representation in the UN to 11 nations.


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General Pervez Musharraf, chief of the army, seized power in Pakistan in a bloodless coup d'etat (overthrow) on Oct. 12, 1999. In a TV broadcast, the general said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in office for 31 months, had tried to politicize the ...


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A severe earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck Taiwan in September. The quake left more than 2,300 people dead, 11,000 people injured, and caused more than $8 billion in property losses, according to government sources.


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A devastating earthquake on Aug. 17, 1999, in northwestern Turkey killed more than 17,000 people. The quake, which registered 7.4 in magnitude, was Turkey's worst earthquake of the century. On November 12, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the same ...


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Uruguayans elected Jorge Batlle, of the ruling Colorado Party, president on Nov. 28, 1999. Batlle, 72, a former senator, won the office on his fifth presidential bid. He defeated Tabare Vazquez, 59, a former mayor of Montevideo, the capital, by taking ...


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Hugo Chavez Frias, of the Fifth Republic Movement, was sworn in on Feb. 2, 1999, for a five-year term as president of Venezuela. Chavez, a former lieutenant colonel, had attempted a military coup


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At an April 1999 summit meeting of the Association of Caribbean States, held in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, leaders from 25 Caribbean nations pledged to work toward the creation of a regional trading bloc. The summit ...


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The four-party coalition government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda spent 1999 attempting to put Slovakia back on track for membership in the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In February, Dzurinda formally ...


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In 1999, numerous Muslims awaited the new millennium with concern and expectation, even though 2000 is the year 1420 in the Islamic calendar. Sheik Nazem Rabbani Haqani predicted that the new millennium would bring an era of natural disasters, the ...


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The year 1999 was characterized in world Jewish life by a return to centrism on many fronts. Renewed efforts to establish peace in the Middle East, a resurgence of anti-Semitism, and developments within Judaism's religious movements all pointed away ...


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Winnipeg, Cananda, hosted the 13th Pan American Games from July 23 through Aug. 8, 1999. The games were the largest sporting event ever held in Canada. More than 5,000 athletes from Central America, the Caribbean, and North and South America competed ...


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Representatives from the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, an international communion representing some 57 million Lutherans, met on Oct. 31, 1999, in Augsburg, Germany, to sign a joint declaration that people are reconciled ...


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Pope John Paul II made a pointed attack on "materialist consumerism" in his World Peace Day Message on Jan. 1, 1999. The pope, who had long criticized the economic and political hardships under Communist rule, sharply denounced what he called the ...


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Four women and three men won Grand Slam tennis titles in 1999, a year of continuing intense competition and rivalry on the women's professional tour. The public's interest in men's tennis was more erratic, thanks to a misleading ratings system and an ...


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Political demonstrations disrup-ted life in Bangladesh throughout 1999. An ongoing rivalry between Prime Minister Hasina Wajed and the prime minister she had replaced three years earlier, Khaleda Ziaur Rahman, known as Begum Zia, fueled the strife. In ...


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President Aleksandr Lukashenko made little progress in 1999 toward his goal of reunifying Belarus with Russia. Successive government reorganizations in Russia repeatedly disrupted negotiations, and opposition to reunification in both countries slowed ...


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A food-contamination scare provoked a crisis in Belgium in 1999 that resulted in a dramatic change of government. In national elections on June 13, voters rejected the coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists that had governed for the past 12 ...


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The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria ruled in January 1999 that a 1998 law concerning federal officials was unconstitutional. The law had banned former Communist officials and people who had collaborated with Bulgaria's secret police from holding high ...


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The government of Cambodia remained preoccupied in 1999 with the problem of how to deal with participants in the Khmer Rouge terror of 1975-1979, when more than 1.5 million Cambodians died. The Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, died in April 1998. In ...


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An estimated 13 million Colombians participated in a series of protests at some 700 locations throughout the country on Oct. 24, 1999. People carried signs bearing the phrase No mas (No more), a call for an end to more than 30 years of civil strife ...


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Alfonso Portillo of the conservative Guatemalan Republican Front was elected president of Guatemala on Dec. 26, 1999. Portillo promised health, education, and land reforms to assist poor and working-class people. His opponents criticized his ties to ...


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On March 12, 1999, Hungary officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Hungarian officials agreed to make the country's air space and military airfields available to NATO forces during the alliance's bombing campaign in ...


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A bitter struggle for political power between religious conservatives and reformers continued in Iran in 1999. The power struggle began in the presidential election of 1997, when moderate cleric Mohammed Khatami won an upset victory, with 70 percent ...


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Iraq repeatedly charged in 1999 that ongoing bombing raids by the United States and Great Britain in northern and southern Iraq had killed scores of civilians. Since the early 1990's, U.S. and British aircraft had patrolled northern and southern ...


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Heads of state and leaders representing 75 nations attended the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein on Feb. 8, 1999. Tens of thousands of Jordanians lined the streets of Amman, the capital, during the funeral procession. Hussein, who died on February 7 ...


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President Nursultan Nazarbayev was reelected on Jan. 10, 1999, in a vote held nearly two years ahead of schedule. After becoming president in 1991, Nazarbayev steadily strengthened his grip on power in Kazakhstan by systematically eliminating ...


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The Socialist government of Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was reelected on Oct. 10, 1999. The Socialists won 112 seats in the 230-seat parliament, one seat short of an outright majority. The conservative Social Democratic Party, the main opposition ...


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In February 1999, Romania's central bank took control of Bancorex, the country's largest state bank, following the resignation of Bancorex's top officials. The managers resigned over differences regarding the restructuring of the bank. The ...


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President Chandrika Kumaratunga of the People's Alliance (PA) party won a second term as president in an election on Dec. 21, 1999. Kumaratunga took 51.2 percent of the vote. Her main rival, Ranil Wickremesinghe of the United National Party (UNP), won ...


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Controversy continued to grow in 1999 over the U.S. bombing on Aug. 20, 1998, of a factory in Sudan. In February 1999, the factory's owner, Saudi businessman Salih Idris, filed a lawsuit against the United States, demanding the release of some $24 ...


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The consensus that has long characterized politics in Switzerland was jolted in 1999 when the right-wing Swiss People's Party made dramatic gains in parliamentary elections in October. The People's Party waged a strongly nationalist campaign, calling ...


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Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to resume Syrian-Israeli peace talks in December 1999, following separate meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In Washington, D.C., in mid-December, ...


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Sierra Leone. On July 7, 1999, the government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the nation's main rebel group, signed a peace accord to end an eight-year-long civil war. Under the accord, the government agreed to cancel the ...


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Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe faced widespread political unrest in 1999, the result of government corruption, controversy over Zimbabwe's involvement in the civil war in Congo (Kinshasa), and a government crackdown on journalists critical of his ...


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The Queen Mother: Creator of the Modern Monarchy

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The Queen Mother, who is known for her strength, vitality and perseverance, celebrates her 100th birthday.


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From technology to politics and international affairs, a look at the world of 1900 offers a remarkable reflection on our own time.


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Exploration of space in 2001 had a long way to go to catch up to the dramatic vision of the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.


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By 2000, AIDS had threatened the lives of tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa and devastated nearly every facet of society.


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The Roman Catholic Church marks the new millennium with Jubilee 2000 and a reflection on life.


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Many U.S. cities experienced a rebirth in 2000 after decades of decline.


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The Cold War's Last Front: The United States and Cuba

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In 2000, many U.S. citizens voiced support for improving relations with Cuba.


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On Aug. 8, 2000, archaeologists raised the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley from 30 feet (9.1 meters) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The submarine sank off Charleston Harbor on Feb. 17, 1864, for unknown reasons after it had rammed the ...


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During 2000, President Fernando de la Rua of the Alliance coalition juggled the demands imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a Washington, D.C.-based United Nations agency that provides short-term credit to member nations, against those ...


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Adverse weather triggered death, destruction, and suffering across Asia during 2000. The worst drought in 50 years stretched in an arc from Syria to Iran, into Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan and parts of India, China, and Mongolia. Southeast of ...


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In 2000, astronomers studied an asteroid, detected evidence of recently flowing water on Mars, and discovered a new moon of Jupiter. Outside the solar system, astronomers found more extrasolar planets, solved one of the mysteries of X-ray background ...


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Australia hosted the 27th Olympiad of the modern era in September 2000, a 17-day, international event that many observers described as nearly flawless. The reconciliation of Australians of European heritage and Aborigines, the original inhabitants of ...


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Automobile industry analysts in late 2000 predicted that the sales of light trucks and cars in the United States were on a pace to break the record of 16.9 million vehicles set in 1999. By the end of September 2000, sales of new vehicles totaled 13.5 ...


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Canadians went to the polls on Nov. 27, 2000, and gave the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien a resounding victory. The Liberals won their third majority government in seven years. They also increased their majority to 172 seats ...


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In 2000, chemists made many new discoveries. They found sugar molecules in space and developed a chemical compound containing argon. Chemists also developed jet fuel from coal and created a new way to visualize the chemical composition of smells.


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On March 11, 2000, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the former public works minister in the governing Concertacion coalition, was sworn in for a six-year term as president. Lagos was the first Socialist to hold this post since 1973, when President Salvador ...


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Communist Party officials in China admitted in 2000 that corruption had become a threat to national stability. Many of China's 1.3 billion people were reported to be angry that the party, which came to power in 1949 with a clean image of fighting ...


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Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, introduced Windows 2000 in February 2000. The software consisted of four different operating systems designed mainly for businesses and other organizations that have computers linked in networks. Windows ...


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The Nov. 7, 2000, election left Republicans with a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and deadlocked with Democrats in the U.S. Senate. Democrats picked up two seats in the House of Representatives, cutting the Republican majority to ...


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In one of the closest elections in United States history, Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas, defeated Democratic candidate Vice President Al Gore for the U.S. presidency. On December 13, Gore conceded the election, which took ...


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Prospects for peace and stability in the Balkans improved dramatically in 2000 with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic as president of Yugoslavia after a decade of the most severe conflict to occur in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). Economic ...


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The Oklahoma Sooners reemerged as a national power in college football in 2000, taking the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national title by defeating the Florida State Seminoles in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3, 2001. In the National Football League ...


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Allegations of corruption and illegal party funding plagued France's political leaders in 2000. The most notorious allegation surfaced in September when the newspaper Le Monde published claims that President Jacques Chirac had overseen a system of ...


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Geologists at the Danish Center for Earth System Science reported evidence in April 2000 that low concentrations of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere prevented animal life from diversifying until relatively late in geologic history. The atmosphere ...


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Germany began to emerge from nearly a decade of economic stagnation in 2000, as growth accelerated and the government initiat-ed labor and tax reforms. The improvement enabled Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to claim that the country was shaking off the ...


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In 2000, the United States continued to enjoy unprecedented prosperity, which economists attributed to a wave of technological advances.


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War for the White House: A Legacy of the U.S. Constitution

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A down-to-the-wire battle for the presidency rivets the nation's attention and raises questions about a once-obscure institution, the Electoral College.


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The creator of the "Peanuts" gang triggered memories of childhood, happy and bittersweet.


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The United Nations (UN) Security Council declared January 2000 the "Month of Africa" at the council's first meeting of the year on January 10. The meeting's agenda focused on the many issues that continued to plague Africa throughout the year. On ...


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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reported in 2000 that the global epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continued to affect people in Africa more severely than on any other continent. UNAIDS, based in Geneva, ...


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In 2000, Alberta basked in prosperity resulting from higher oil and gas prices. The provincial budget for fiscal year 2000-2001 (April 1, 2000, to March 31, 2001), introduced by Treasurer Stockwell Day on Feb. 24, 2000, included the largest spending ...


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Two teams of geneticists in 2000 reported evidence that Neanderthals did not interbreed with modern humans, who are known to have existed in Europe 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals were a type of human that lived in Europe and the Middle East from ...


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Labor disputes, poor weather, and air traffic control problems contributed to numerous flight cancellations and delays throughout 2000, leading to greater oversight of the airline industry by the U.S. government.


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The first World Series between two New York City teams since 1956 capped an exciting 2000 baseball season. In the series, the New York Yankees crushed the New York Mets, taking their third straight World Series crown and their fourth in five years. ...


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The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2000 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship under the leadership of Phil Jackson, who had coached the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1990's. In college basketball, the Michigan State Spartans won ...


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The world's largest-known living organism is a fungus in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, scientists with the United States Forest Service reported in August 2000. The "humongous fungus," a tree-killing specimen called Armillaria ...


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Bosnia-Herzegovina ended 2000 without a functioning national government after no single party or coalition of parties was able to put together a majority following the parliamentary elections in November. Bosnia-Herzegovina consists of two ...


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Ujjal Dosanjh was sworn in as British Columbia's 33rd premier on February 24. He was the first premier born in India. Earlier in February, Dosanjh had been chosen leader of the governing New Democratic Party (NDP).


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Under pressure from an international alliance of environmental organizations, Mexico in March 2000 canceled plans with Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation to build an industrial salt factory near Punta Abrejos, Mexico. The chosen site for the factory was ...


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The crime rate in the United States continued to decline in 2000, according to a preliminary report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in December. Serious crime fell by 0.3 percent in the first six months of 2000, compared with ...


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Parliamentary elections held in January 2000 resulted in a major victory for democratic reform, when a six-party prodemocracy coalition took control of Croatia's government. The new government immediately pledged to begin economic reform and take ...


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Basic questions about relations between Cuba and the United States came to the forefront of public attention on June 28, 2000, when 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez flew back to Cuba from the United States with his father. The boy had been found off the ...


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Vice President Al Gore was unsuccessful in his attempt to keep the presidency in Democratic hands following the Nov. 7, 2000, presidential election, which was one of the closest in United States history. Gore had served as vice president for eight ...


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In 2000, Danish voters rejected a proposal to adopt the euro, the single European currency. Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen stated in March that he would call a referendum on the single currency, which 11 other European Union (EU) countries had ...


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The Socialist government of Prime Minister Costas Simitis won reelection in 2000 by promising to lead Greece into the mainstream of the European Union (EU). Simitis's Socialist Party, known by its Greek acronym PASOK, won 158 seats in the 300-seat ...


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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claimed victory in Haiti's presidential election on Nov. 26, 2000. Opposition candidates had boycotted the election, however, claiming it was a "farce." Aristide's opponents were angered by the way he ...


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The National Hockey League (NHL) 1999-2000 season culminated with the New Jersey Devils winning their second Stanley Cup in six seasons. The Devils defeated the Dallas Stars, 2-1 on June 10 in Dallas, on center Jason Arnott's goal in double overtime. ...


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Many diplomats and Indian officials had hoped that India's bloodiest internal conflict, an 11-year-old guerrilla war between groups seeking to separate the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir from India, could be settled in 2000. However, talk of a ...


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In April 2000, the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a division of the Department of the Interior, finished converting the trust-fund accounts of Native Americans into an automated accounting system. The new system was one phase of an ...


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The Arab-Israeli peace process foundered in 2000, as conflict worsened between Palestinians and Israelis in the face of seemingly unsolvable political differences. By December, more than 300 people, most of them Palestinians, had been killed in ...


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Scientists announced in June 2000 that they had completed a first draft of the human genome, the total amount of genetic information in a human cell. Genes (basic units of heredity) are made up of molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Each DNA ...


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The use of psychiatric drugs for childhood emotional and behavioral problems increased in 2000. In a February study headed by Julie M. Zito of the University of Maryland in Baltimore, researchers checked the medical records of 200,000 preschool ...


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Vicente Fox Quesada of the center-right National Action Party (PAN) was sworn to a six-year term as president of Mexico on Dec. 1, 2000. The inauguration of Fox, who had been elected in July, marked the end of 71 years of political dominance by ...


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In 2000, renewed Palestinian-Israeli clashes, more violent than the 1987-1993 Palestinian uprising against Israel, plunged the Middle East into turmoil. The crisis began in July 2000, when Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister ...


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In 2000, the Dutch continued to pursue some of the most liberal social policies in Europe. In September, the parliament approved a law granting gay couples the same marital status as heterosexual couples, including the right to marry at city hall, ...


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Premier Bernard Lord, who had led the PCP to victory over the Liberal Party in June 1999, angered the province's public service employees in 2000 with his plans to eliminate 750 positions to help reduce government spending. Lord declared the cuts were ...


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One of the worst environmental disasters in Ontario's history occurred in May when two often-lethal strains of bacteria infected the water supply of Walkerton, a farm town of 4,800 people in the western part of the province. At least 7 people died and ...


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North Carolina scientists stirred excitement among paleontologists in April 2000, when they announced they had used the latest in advanced medical imaging technology to discover what they believed was a fossilized dinosaur heart.


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Valentin Paniagua, the leader of Peru's Congress, was sworn in as interim president on Nov. 22, 2000. Paniagua replaced President Alberto K. Fujimori, who had faxed his resignation to Congress on November 20 while he was visiting Japan, his ancestral ...


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The Philippines House of Representatives impeached President Joseph E. Estrada on Nov. 13, 2000, and began his trial on December 7. Estrada was accused of bribery, graft, betrayal of public trust, and violation of the constitution. The charges against ...


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Physicists apparently re-created a state of matter that was common only in the earliest moments of the universe, according to a February 2000 announcement by scientists at the CERN laboratory, an international research center near Geneva, Switzerland. ...


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In June 2000, all of the members of the Freedom Union reform party resigned from their positions in the Polish cabinet. They cited lack of progress in privatizing state assets and disagreement over budget issues as their reasons for leaving the ...


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Republican Governor George W. Bush of Texas defeated his Democratic challenger, Vice President Al Gore, in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history. While Gore, vice president for eight years under President Bill Clinton, won the ...


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Former Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin won a landslide victory in the March 26, 2000, presidential election. Putin had become acting president of Russia after former President Boris Yeltsin resigned on the last day of 1999, transforming the landscape ...


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Premier Roy Romanow, Canada's longest-serving premier, announced his retirement on September 25. His nine years in office were marked by a successful drive to restore Saskatchewan's financial health.


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In September 2000, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia publicly called upon Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat not to compromise over the status of Jerusalem in peace negotiations with Israel. Representatives of the United States reportedly pressured ...


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France confirmed its status as World Champion in soccer in 2000 by winning the European Championship in July. In Olympic competition at Sydney, Australia, in September, Cameroon won the gold medal in men's soccer and Norway took the women's gold.


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Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson R. Mandela as South African president in June 1999, faced considerable dissent within the ranks of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in 2000. The president came under fire not only for his controversial ...


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Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko's newly formed government renewed efforts in 2000 toward economic reforms. Yushchenko, who had previously headed the Ukrainian central bank, was nominated for the premiership in late 1999 by newly reelected President ...


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During 2000, the economy of the United Kingdom remained strong. The government controlled inflation and reduced unemployment to just over 1 million people, the lowest level since 1979. However, public confidence in the government fell toward the end ...


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United States President Bill Clinton visited Vietnam on Nov. 16, 2000. The visit was the first by a U.S. president since Richard Nixon visited South Vietnam during the Vietnam War (1957-1975). The war ended with 58,000 Americans dead and the defeat of ...


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Extremes characterized weather patterns in many areas of the world in 2000. The United States had the warmest winter since record-keeping began in 1895. In Europe, a summer heat wave triggered fires in Italy, Greece, and the Balkans, while autumn ...


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On Oct. 7, 2000, Vojislav Kostunica, a constitutional law professor who previously had not been active in politics, became president of Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic resigned. Milosevic had been president since 1997 and had been indicted in 1999 ...


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The need for diversification of the economy and more jobs were the central issues in territorial elections held on April 17. Voters decisively rejected the sitting New Democratic Party government of Piers McDonald, giving the Liberal Party, led by Pat ...


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The center-left coalition government in Italy struggled to hold on to power in 2000 against a resurgent conservative opposition. The conservatives, led by the Forza Italia party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, scored a major victory in ...


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Yoshiro Mori, the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD), became prime minister of Japan on April 5, 2000. Mori succeeded Keizo Obuchi, who suffered a stroke in April and died on May 14. Many Japanese citizens criticized LDP leaders ...


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Latin America headed uncertainly into the uncharted waters of the emerging global economy in 2000. Latin America's moves in this direction followed a decade in which the region's governments had sold off many state-owned enterprises to private ...


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Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad al-Qadhafi's efforts to end the international isolation of Libya met with mixed results in 2000. Qadhafi was welcomed by government leaders during his tour of Arab capitals in September and October. However, Qadhafi's ...


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Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed announced on Sept. 11, 2000, that his deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, would take over more official duties as part of a leadership transition. The 74-year-old Mahathir, who had held the office of prime minister for ...


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The NDP government of Premier Gary Doer followed a cautious course during 2000, its first year in office. Doer's slow pace triggered grumbling among NDP supporters, who expected more dramatic action after the party's success in breaking the PCP's ...


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The planned construction of a huge nickel-mining and refining project using ore mined from Voisey's Bay in Labrador remained in doubt at the end of 2000. In 1996, Inco Limited of Toronto, one of the world's largest nickel producers, had paid the ...


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Protestant and Catholic political parties in Northern Ireland struggled in 2000 to implement the terms of the Good Friday agreement of 1998. The agreement was designed to end years of fighting between unionists, who favored the existing union of ...


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The Northwest Territories' Legislative Assembly elected Stephen Kakfwi premier in January 2000. Kakfwi previously served as Cabinet member and president of the Dene Nation.


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Political instability in Norway in 2000 led to the collapse of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's government over an environmental dispute. Opposition parties had proposed legislation to allow the construction of power plants fueled by natural gas ...


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The PCP government of Premier John Hamm, faced with the highest per capita provincial debt in Canada, took determined steps in 2000 to curb government spending. In March, it announced a massive restructuring of government operations, reducing the ...


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Ocean researchers in May 2000 reported that the largest reef in the Northern Hemisphere, located in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize, suffered a massive die-off in 1998. The scientists blamed the event on global warming and El Nio. ...


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In July 2000, President Bill Clinton hosted a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat in an effort to reach a final peace agreement in the Middle East. The leaders met at Camp David, the presidential ...


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The PCP administration of Premier Pat Binns won reelection in an April 17 poll marked by high voter turnout. The PCP, which won 26 of 27 seats in the provincial legislature, had campaigned on its success in promoting strong economic growth. Since ...


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In August 2000, Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., a Japanese-owned tire company located in Nashville, Tennessee, announced the recall of 6.5 million tires, primarily on sport utility vehicles (SUV's) and light trucks. Federal safety officials found ...


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On Nov. 7, 2000, Puerto Ricans elected San Juan Mayor Sila Maria Calderon, of the antistatehood Popular Democratic Party, governor. She was the first woman to hold the office.


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Long-awaited tax cuts highlighted the province's fiscal 2000-2001 budget of $48.3 billion, presented on March 14, 2000, by Finance Minister Bernard Landry. The Parti Quebecois government offered a total of $4.5 billion in tax cuts, to be made over a ...


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Indecision about a proposal for a new type of radio station in the United States created static in the radio industry in 2000. The political storm centered on the newly proposed low-power FM (LPFM) radio stations, which proponents argued would open ...


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The first crew was launched to the International Space Station on Oct. 31, 2000. Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off in a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their planned 17-week mission marked the ...


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The conservative government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar won reelection by a substantial margin in 2000, cementing Aznar's hold on power. In the March 12 election, the prime minister's Popular Party received 45 percent of the vote and won 183 ...


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Sweden continued to enjoy robust economic growth in 2000, primarily because of the success of its high-technology industries. A number of start-up companies and venture capital firms seeking to develop products and services for Europe's Internet and ...


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Telecommunications companies continued to move toward consolidation in 2000. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an independent federal agency that maintains free and fair competition in the economy, voted 5-to-0 on Dec. 14, 2000, to approve plans for ...


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In January 2000, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announced agreements with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization headquartered in New ...


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The National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC), an investigative body created by the Thai government under the 1997 reformist constitution, began to affect politics in Thailand in 2000. The commission was designed to clean up the political system, ...


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The civil war in Congo (Kinshasa) between the army of President Laurent Kabila and antigovernment rebels continued to rage in 2000, despite a cease-fire that was agreed to by all parties to the conflict in August 1999 and a second cease-fire agreed to ...


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The June opening of the Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle was the most anticipated architectural event of 2000. Designed by Frank Gehry and funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, the building celebrated guitarist Jimi Hendrix and American ...


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In 2000, various European countries and museums in Europe and the United States continued to pursue the problem of art treasures plundered during World War II (1939-1945). Most of the art had been seized by the Nazi government in Germany from Jewish ...


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In 2000, the music world honored Johann Sebastian Bach on the 250th anniversary of his death. Many music lovers revere the German composer, who lived from 1685 to 1750, as the greatest composer who ever lived. Numerous Bach concerts, festivals, and ...


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Chinese playwright and novelist Gao Xingjian was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on Oct. 13, 2000, for work of "universal validity, bitter insights, and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." Xingjian ...


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Debate over the future of the printed book continued in 2000 with e-books and handheld computers, which can download and store entire books, becoming widely available. With the March publication of Stephen King's Riding the Bullet, which was only ...


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Brazil commemorated the 500th anniversary of the country's discovery on April 22, 2000, with official celebrations in Porto Seguro, the coastal city where Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral made landfall in 1500. An economic upswing gave many ...


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Supplies of energy barely kept pace with demand during 2000 despite significant increases in production. A price runup in petroleum that began in 1999 accelerated in 2000, with a spillover to other energy areas. By the end of 2000, fuel prices reached ...


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The 30th anniversary of the founding of Earth Day, the annual observance to increase public awareness of environmental problems, was celebrated on April 22, 2000. In contrast to the first Earth Day in 1970, which focused on such basic, regional topics ...


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The world population stood at 6.06 billion in mid-2000, growing by more than 75 million people during the year, according to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA is a United Nations (UN) agency that promotes greater access to ...


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The largest single gathering of heads of state or government leaders ever assembled in the world--150 men and women--attended a United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit between Sept. 6 and Sept. 8, 2000, at UN Headquarters in New York City. UN ...


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The South Carolina aquarium in Charleston, South Carolina, opened on May 19, 2000. Visitors took a journey through the state's aquatic habitats, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. The aquarium consists of five galleries with more ...


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Failed drug tests, an attack on a skater, and familiar faces dominated the 2000 ice skating World championships. Michelle Kwan took the women's title, becoming the first American woman since Peggy Fleming in 1968 to win three world titles. In other ...


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Austrian skiers Hermann Maier and Renate Goetschl dominated the World Cup professional season in 2000. Daron Rahlves of the United States enjoyed unexpected success in 2000, winning two World Cup races in Kvitfjell, Norway. The victories were the ...


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In 2000, Eldrick "Tiger" Woods ensured his reputation as a golf legend, with a string of tournament wins that broke records that had stood for more than a century. In tennis, Venus Williams triumphed at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Olympics.


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World records fell at a furious clip in 2000 in Olympic and non-Olympic trial swimming, with Alexander Popov of Russia and Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands making the biggest waves. The 2000 swimming season also saw the fall of the sport's oldest ...


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Garry Kasparov of Russia, long considered the world's greatest chess player, lost a championship match to a former pupil, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, on Nov. 2, 2000. Kasparov lost 8.5 to 6.5. Kramnik won $1.33 million for his victory, while Kasparov ...


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The board of directors of the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York City suspended operations for the dance troupe, the junior company, and the school in May 2000. The immediate reason for the action was the company's $500,000 deficit, which ...


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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, and music, were awarded on April 10, 2000, by Columbia University in New York City on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.


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Retail toy sales in the United States in 2000 rose only 3 percent over 1999 sales, as analysts had expected. In 1999, sales had increased by an exceptionally high 8 percent over 1998 sales. The average yearly growth in the toy industry is 2 to 5 ...


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In May 2000, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History unveiled the largest and most complete skeleton yet discovered of the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. The 67-million-year-old carnivore was named "Sue " after its discoverer, Susan Hendrickson, a ...


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On Jan. 1, 2000, officials relit Pegasus, the flying red horse sign atop the historic Magnolia Building in dowtown Dallas. A total of $600,000 in private donations went into the restoration of one of the city's most famous landmarks. More than 45,000 ...


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Houston took a major step toward developing a light-rail mass transit system in 2000. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro) hired engineering firms to handle the final design for a 7.5-mile (12-kilometer), $300-million rail line from downtown to ...


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The United States Department of Justice proposed in 2000 to intercede with the Los Angeles city government to monitor reform and restructuring efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) over a five-year period. The LAPD became the largest ...


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Literature for children. Historical fiction, fantasy, and picture books were especially popular in 2000. Some of the outstanding books of 2000 included the following:


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Enthusiastic moviegoers in early 2000 hoped that the new century would trigger a persuasive, enterprising era in American filmmaking, similar to that of the late 1960's and early 1970's, when cinema cliches were often cast aside. Film buffs and movie ...


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C. K. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 with Repair, a poetry collection that in 1999 was a finalist for the National Book Award. Williams's signature style, which is immediately recognizable on the page, is characterized by long, elaborate, ...


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Bands with young members dominated popular music in 2000, as they continued to appeal to preteen and teen-aged audiences. 'N SYNC sold 2.4 million copies of its second album, No Strings Attached, in the first week of the album's release in March. ...


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Many theatergoers in 2000 felt a clear sense that an era had come to an end with the deaths of three giants of the theater; the closing of two of the most successful Broadway musicals in history; and the continuing rise of corporate producers. In ...


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The world's farmers had a bountiful harvest in 2000 for the fifth consecutive year. However, sizable crops, depressed commodity prices, and growing world concern about genetically modified (GM) crops kept the United States farm sector in turmoil. Two ...


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The rivalry between the Indy Racing League (IRL) and the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) took a twist in 2000 when CART's 1999 champion, Juan Montoya of Colombia, won the IRL's highest-profile event, the Indianapolis 500, on May 28, 2000. The ...


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New Zealand scored a historic victory in March 2000 by becoming the first country other than the United States to defend the America's Cup trophy. In other events, sailing ace Randy Smyth won his fourth consecutive Worrell 1000, and powerboat pilot ...


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Four players, Norm Duke, Ryan Shafer, Chris Barnes, and Walter Ray Williams, Jr., dueled for the 2000 Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Player of the Year award in one of the closest races in the history of the title. In 2000, Wendy Macpherson of ...


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Evander Holyfield in 2000 became the first boxer in history to win a heavyweight title four different times. The sport also teetered on the edge of the bizarre in 2000, with Mike Tyson's verbal attacks on opponent Lennox Lewis, of Great Britain, and ...


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Tiger Woods dominated golf in 2000 in a way no man or woman ever had before. He captured three of the Professional Golfers' Association's (PGA) four major titles and, at age 24, became the youngest player in history to complete a career Grand Slam ...


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Fusaichi Pegasus, believed by many to be the next "superhorse," briefly lived up to his impressive billing in 2000 by easily capturing the Kentucky Derby in May. However, the legend was fleeting. Despite being heavily favored, Fusaichi Pegasus lost to ...


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Designers in 2000 failed to introduce a theme that captured the imagination of women worldwide. There was no hemline news. Trousers were accepted everywhere, and the dominant movement continued to be the American trend for casual dress.


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Officials of the European Union (EU) took steps in 2000 to stem panic over an increase in the number of cases of "mad cow" disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalo-pathy (BSE). BSE is a fatal brain disorder in cattle that is suspected to ...


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The United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science reported in September 2000 that more than 94 percent of all public libraries in the United States provided public access to the Internet in 2000, compared with 73.3 percent in ...


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Despite an overall increase in advertising revenue for magazines in 2000, the publishers of two well-known magazines announced that they would cease publication, due to declining subscriptions and low advertising volume.


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Officials of the Chicago-based Tribune Company, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and owner of the WGN cable television station and the Chicago Cubs baseball team, announced on March 13, 2000, that the company planned to purchase the Los Angeles-based ...


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Nobel Prizes in literature, peace, the sciences, and economics were awarded in October 2000 by the Norwegian parliament, the Storting, in Oslo and by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Swedish Academy of ...


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Bernard Kerik was sworn in as New York City's 40th police commissioner on Sept. 6, 2000. A former corrections commissioner and police detective, Kerik promised to make better police and community relations a priority.


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Philadelphia hosted the Republican National Convention from July 31 to Aug. 3, 2000, culminating years of planning and $50 million in public and private expenditures. The event was the ninth national political convention to meet in Philadelphia in ...


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Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Ontario Premier Mike Harris joined Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman in announcing on Oct. 20, 2000, that each level of government planned to contribute $500 million (all amounts in Canadian dollars) for the ...


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Washington, D.C., underwent a major resurgence in 2000. Business leaders gave much of the credit for the turnaround to Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who made economic development--particularly the attraction of new businesses and residents to the ...


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Two of the oldest and most influential banks in the United States merged on Sept. 12, 2000, in the largest banking transaction of the year. Chase Manhattan Corporation of New York City acquired J.P. Morgan & Company, Incorporated, also of New York ...


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The London Eye, an "observation wheel" that was 450 feet (137 meters) tall, opened to the public in February 2000 on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The Eye resembled a Ferris wheel but was made with capsules firmly attached to the ...


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Stock market investors learned in 2000 that what goes up can come down. After five years of extraordinary stock gains in areas such as computer technology and telecommunications, the growth of these popular sectors began to slow dramatically beginning ...


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In July 2000, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) of Fort Worth, Texas, and the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) of Montreal, Canada, announced their decision to abandon a December 1999 proposal to create the largest railroad in ...


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Explosives packed into a small boat were detonated alongside the U.S.S. Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, on Oct. 12, 2000. The explosion killed 17 sailors on board the destroyer and injured 39 others. It also ripped a hole 40 feet (12 meters) high and 40 ...


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U.S. Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley resigned his Cabinet position in July 2000 to become chairman of Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign. Daley had served in President Bill Clinton's administration since 1997.


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The United States Census Bureau conducted its decennial census of population and housing in 2000, updating the nation's changing social profile. According to figures released on December 28, the population of the United States as of April 1, 2000, ...


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The November 2000 presidential election, one of the closest in U.S. history, became embroiled in the courts as Democrats and Republicans wrangled over Florida's 25 decisive Electoral College votes. Following the November 7 election, only a few hundred ...


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The overall number of Americans using illegal drugs remained constant from 1997 to 1999, though illegal drug use among children ages 12 to 17 dropped for the second year in a row in 1999, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse ...


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved RU-486, the so-called "French abortion pill," for use in the United States in September 2000. The drug, which is also called mifepristone, has been available in Europe since the late 1980's.


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Elementary- and secondary-school enrollment in the United States set a record for the fifth straight year in 2000, with 53 million youngsters attending the nation's public and private schools. The figure reflected an increase of 239,000 children over ...


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The United States Department of Justice reported in mid-2000 that 1.37 million offenders were under federal or state jurisdiction in December 1999, an increase of 3.4 percent since December 1998. Between 1990 and 1999, the number of inmates in the ...


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The Democratic Party did well in gubernatorial races in November 2000. Of the 11 open governors' seats in the November 7 election, Democrats retained offices in each of the seven states already held by the party and took control of the governor's ...


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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Aug. 22, 2000, that welfare caseloads had decreased to 6.3 million recipients in December 1999, a 56 percent decline since 1993. The number of welfare recipients as a ...


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Pete Sampras and Venus Williams of the United States netted historic victories at Wimbledon in Great Britain in July 2000. Sampras's triumph at Wimbledon made him the most successful player in Grand Slam history, with a record 13 Grand-Slam wins. ...


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The most anticipated highlight of the pre-Olympic track and field season in 2000 turned into the most disappointing. Sprinters Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson, both world-record holders, enjoyed more success with their war of words off the track ...


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The Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim organization dominated by Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtunsa, made major gains in 2000 toward destroying opposition and consolidating control over the country.


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In elections in Albania in October 2000, the ruling Socialist Party won 252 seats for local councils, while the Democratic Party won 188 seats. Smaller parties split the remaining 28 seats. The elections were the first since 1996. International ...


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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's "civil concord" initiative to end the civil war between Algeria's military-backed government and Islamic militants produced mixed results in 2000. The civil war, which began in 1992 when the military canceled ...


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Austria endured political turmoil through much of 2000 as the inclusion of the far-right Freedom Party in a new government proved divisive at home and prompted the European Union (EU) to impose diplomatic sanctions. The difficulties grew out of the ...


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At the request of President Andres Pastrana, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill on July 13, 2000, providing Colombia with $1.3 billion in emergency military aid to fight drug trafficking. The leaders of several Latin American nations, including ...


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Texas Governor George W. Bush, the Republican candidate in the November 2000 presidential election, claimed victory over his Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, on December 13, five weeks after the November 7 election. The election was one of ...


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In January 2000, the governing Social Democrats and the Civic Democratic Party amended their power-sharing agreement. The amendments strengthened the agreement, addressing such issues as the state budget and election law reform, and improved ...


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Attempts by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to suppress political dissent in 2000 provoked harsh criticism from international human rights groups and increased tensions between Egypt and the United States. Many observers believed that the crackdowns ...


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Hector Silva of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won reelection as mayor of El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, on March 12, 2000. The FMLN, which had its origins as a Marxist and rebel movement, also scored gains in legislative ...


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President Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to a second five-year term in April 2000. Shevardnadze won 80 percent of the vote after one of his chief rivals, Aslan Abashidze, withdrew on the eve of the election. Observers from the Organization for ...


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Seven of the world's top 10 most expensive cities were in Asia in 2000, according to January rankings by the William M. Mercer Companies LLC (formerly the Corporate Resources Group), an international consultancy firm based in New York City. Each year, ...


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The world economy expanded in most regions in 2000, propelled in part by the powerful United States economy. Many regions that had suffered severe economic retrenchment in the late 1990's--such as East Asia, Russia, and Latin America--enjoyed ...


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International trade surged in 2000, helping the world economy further recover from the economic crisis of 1997-1998. The robust economy of the United States in 2000 powered global growth, with U.S. consumers pulling in vast quantities of foreign-made ...


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The United States economy in 2000 crossed a historical milestone as the period of economic expansion became the longest in U.S. history--30 quarters. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reported that the year ended with over 135 million people employed ...


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The United States manufacturing sector began 2000 from a position of strength but weakened during the year as interest rates rose, fuel costs soared, and spring and autumn sell-offs in high-technology stocks squeezed many of the so-called new economy ...


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Montreal engaged in public mourning twice in 2000--first for hockey hero Maurice Richard, then for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Richard, known to his legions of fans as "the Rocket" while he was a superstar with the Montreal ...


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United States President Bill Clinton announced regulations in December 2000 providing patients with greater control over and access to their health records. The rules, designed to balance the issue of privacy with public safety, established guidelines ...


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On June 28, 2000, 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba, his homeland, after a seven-month legal battle over who should have custody of the boy. The fight over Gonzalez turned into an international furor, primarily because of the long history of ...


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Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds reported on March 30, 2000, that both funds would remain solvent longer than previously thought. The Social Security fund, which authorities in 1999 bellieved would last until 2034, was ...


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Supreme Court of the United States played a key role in the outcome of the hotly contested 2000 U.S. presidential election. On December 12, the court, voting 5 to 4, reversed a decision by the Florida Supreme Court that had allowed a manual recount of ...


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U.S. President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill in August 2000 that would have cut taxes for nearly all married couples in the United States. The bill would have eliminated a tax provision popularly known as the "marriage penalty." Under the U.S. tax code, ...


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United States President Bill Clinton announced three new regulatory changes on July 26, 2000, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The changes increased the amount of money Social Security ...


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In March 2000, the Orthodox Church of Serbia, under Patriarch Pavle, called on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to resign. On September 28, Pavle was among the first Serbs to recognize Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic's chief opponent in the ...


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Two companies that make central processing units (CPU's), the key chips in personal computers, smashed a computing speed barrier in February 2000. The companies created the first chips that could operate at one gigahertz (GHz), or 1 billion cycles per ...


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The collapse of the Arab-Israeli peace process and the deadly outbreak of violence between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in 2000 focused the attention of Muslims worldwide on Jerusalem. In peace talks with Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat ...


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Jews in 2000 had cause to be both joyful and anxious. However, by the end of the year, hope gave way to pessimism concerning the prospects for a Middle East peace and the safety of Jews around the world.


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Mainline Protestant churches in the United States continued to be divided in 2000 over issues involving homosexuality. A majority of voters at conferences of the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted ...


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In January 2000, 160 Asian Roman Catholic bishops gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, to chart the Roman Cath-olic Church's course in Asia. The meeting came shortly after Pope John Paul II, during a trip to New Delhi, India, called upon Asia's bishops to ...


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President Heydar AliyevÔs New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) won a majority in parliamentary elections on Nov. 5, 2000. With the victory, AliyevÔs son, Ilham, who topped the candidate list, was poised to become speaker of the new parliament. Many observers ...


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The World Health Organization, a United Nations affiliate in Geneva, Switzerland, reported on Sept. 8, 2000, that Bangla-desh faced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history. At least 7,000 people had died since 1990 from ingesting ...


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A parliamentary election on Oct. 15, 2000, produced a lopsided victory for President Aleksandr Lukashenko but failed to cleanse his reputation as the last remaining nondemocratic ruler in Europe. The Belarusian parliament had retained few powers under ...


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Belgium experienced a resurgence of extreme right-wing politics in 2000. The right-wing party Vlaams Blok, or Flemish Bloc, made significant gains in local elections in Antwerp, Belgium's second-largest city, in October. Vlaams Blok won 33 percent of ...


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The government of Prime Minister Ivan Kostov survived a no-confidence vote in May 2000. The vote was called after opposition groups accused Kostov of fostering corruption.


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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), tried to assert political rights for the NLD in 2000. The NLD won 82 percent of the vote in the 1990 parliamentary elections, but the military rulers of Myanmar--formerly known ...


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Cambodia enjoyed peace in 2000 after decades of war and civil strife. Political murders and human rights violations were less blatant than in past years.


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Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, of the right-wing Guatemalan Republican Front, was sworn to a four-year term as president of Guatemala on Jan. 14, 2000. The 48-year-old attorney and economist pledged to reduce crime and the growing gap between rich and ...


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In June 2000, the Hungarian parliament elected Ferenc Madl, a former minister of education and culture, president of Hungary. Madl succeeded Arpad Goncz, who had served two five-year terms.


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The political struggle between Iranian reformists and hard-line religious conservatives intensified in 2000 after the hard-liners lost control of parliament for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Reformist President Mohammed Khatami ...


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Efforts by the United States to isolate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein eroded in 2000 as international opposition to United Nations (UN) sanctions against Iraq mounted. The UN imposed the sanctions after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.


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Jordanian King Abdullah II criticized "Israeli aggression" in November 2000 in the wake of a renewal of Palestinian-Israeli violence. Jordan also withheld its newly appointed ambassador to Israel. The announcement came at the same time that Egypt, the ...


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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an international security group that monitors elections, complained in January 2000 that Kazakhstan's October 1999 elections to the Mazhilis (lower house of parliament) were "severely ...


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Ion Iliescu, a former Communist who had served as president of Romania from 1990 to 1996, was reelected president on Dec. 10, 2000. Iliescu defeated nationalist hardliner Corneliu Vadim Tudor by a wide margin in a runoff election.


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Sri Lanka elected a new parliament on Oct. 10, 2000. The results thwarted President Chandrika Kumaratunga's hopes of winning a sufficient majority in order for her People's Alliance party to enact a new constitution. The new constitution was intended ...


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President Umar al-Bashir in September 2000 ordered the arrest of 51 members of the People's National Congress (PNC), a new opposition party, for allegedly inciting riots. Bashir's archrival, Hassan al-Turabi--an advocate of strict Islamic law--formed ...


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Swiss voters chose to maintain an open policy to the outside world in two major ballot initiatives during 2000. On May 21, voters approved by a 2-to-1 margin agreements aimed at increasing Switzerland's economic ties with the European Union (EU). The ...


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President Hafez al-Assad, who seized power in Syria in 1970, died on June 10, 2000, at age 69. An ardent standard bearer of Arab nationalism and a bitter foe of Israel, Assad was often referred to as the "Lion of Damascus." He was a member of Alawite, ...


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Chen Shui-bian became president of Taiwan on May 20, 2000, in the first democratic transfer of power in 5,000 years of Chinese history. Chen, the leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was elected on March 18 with only 39 percent ...


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Sierra Leone's peace accord collapsed in May 2000, when units of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Sierra Leone's main rebel group, kidnapped hundreds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers and attacked the capital, Freetown. The accord had been ...


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President Robert Mugabe's authority was shaken severely in 2000, as Zimbabwe confronted its toughest political and economic crisis since independence from British rule in 1980. A terror campaign, waged by Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National ...


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Sept. 11, 2001, became a new date that will live in infamy when Islamic fundamentalist terrorists attacked symbols of economic and military power in the United States, killing thousands of people.


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Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses, which burst on the American scene 100 years ago, changed how Americans live.


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Most experts agreed that while juvenile violence in the United States increased dramatically during the early 1990's, public perception of the violence exceeded its true scope by 2001.


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Actor Carroll O'Connor's portrayal of Archie Bunker reflected the turmoil of America in the 1970's.


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The 2001 Energy Crunch: Crisis or Wake-up Call?

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Blackouts in California and volatile natural gas and oil prices in 2001 alarmed consumers and triggered chaos in U.S. energy industries.


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A scientific panel reports to the U.S. president that global warming is real and that it is being caused by humans, but scientists remain unsure about what the future holds.


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In March 2001, paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya announced the discovery of a 3.5-million-year-old skull from the western side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Because the skull has a unique combination of structural ...


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"Otzi the Iceman," whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Otztaler Alps on the Austria-Italy border in 1991, was killed by an arrow, according to a July 2001 announcement by scientists at Italy's South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. Scholars ...


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Argentina was thrown into political chaos following the Dec. 20, 2001, resignation of President Fernando de la Rua, who was forced out of office by violent protests over his failure to end nearly four years of recession. The opposition Peronist Party ...


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An international war against terrorism rocked the political and economic stability of many Asian countries in 2001. The war, which began after terrorists crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon ...


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In 2001, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) flew a spacecraft close to a comet and landed another on an asteroid. Astronomers for the first time detected an atmosphere around a planet outside the solar system. ...


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Prime Minister John Howard and his conservative coalition government won a historic third term in November 2001 in national elections that focused on immigration issues. Howard's Liberal Party won 67 seats in the 150-seat lower house of Parliament, ...


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Arabs throughout the Middle East hailed the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in May 2000 as the first Arab victory in the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli troops had entered southern Lebanon in 1978 and later established a ...


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The Labour Alliance coalition, elected in November 1999, found itself in conflict with New Zealand's business community in 2000. Business leaders were not pleased with the government's passage of legislation changing industrial law, increasing top ...


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The United States National Labor Committee, which investigates labor abuses in overseas factories that supply goods to U.S. markets, strongly condemned Chentex, a Taiwanese-owned textile company, in 2000 for dismissing more than 150 workers at the ...


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Political unrest dominated developments in the Pacific during 2000. Armed forces toppled the governments of Fiji and the Solomon Islands.


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General Pervez Musharraf promised on May 25, 2000, that he would honor the May 12 decision of the Pakistani Supreme Court to return Pakistan to civilian rule within three years. Musharraf had seized power in Pakistan on Oct. 12, 1999. The court, which ...


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Portugal helped forge a new economic strategy for Europe during the first half of 2000, when it held the presidency of the 15-nation European Union (EU). At a summit meeting in Lisbon on March 24 and March 25, chaired by Prime Minister Antonio ...


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A major scandal rocked Turkey in 2000 after police discovered evidence that security forces of the secular (nonreligious) government had collaborated with the radical Islamic group Hizbullah to eradicate the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) during the ...


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Jorge Batlle, of Uruguay's incumbent Colorado Party, was sworn to a five-year term as president on March 1, 2000. Batlle, a lawyer, promised to address Uruguay's 11-percent unemployment rate and other serious economic problems.


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Islam Karimov was reelected president on Jan. 9, 2000. He won 92 percent of the vote with a reported turnout of 95 percent. Karimov's sole opponent, Abdulhafiz Jalolov, cast his vote publicly for Karimov. The Organization for Security and Cooperation ...


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President Hugo Chavez Frias was sworn in to a new term as Venezuela's president on Aug. 19, 2000, despite allegations of election irregularities. Originally taking office in December 1999, Chavez had launched initiatives to rewrite the country's ...


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Rafael Hipolito Mejia Dominguez, of the center-left Dominican Revolutionary Party, was sworn in to a four-year term as president of the Dominican Republic on Aug. 16, 2000. The same day, Milagros Ortiz Bosch became the Dominican Republic's first ...


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Conflict within Slovakia's coalition government continued through 2000. Threats by Hungarian members to leave endangered the future of the coalition government, which included the Christian Democratic Movement, the Hungarian Coalition Party, the ...


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Could unlimited Web access to media of all kinds spur individual creativity--or kill it?


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Drugs, Guns, and Money: The Conflict in Colombia

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Worldwide trafficking in cocaine continues to fuel terrorism, civil war, political corruption, and a host of other problems in Colombia.


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A small orbiting outpost named Mir persevered through many problems to lead the way to a promising future of international cooperation in space.


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The Changing Profile of America: The 2000 Census

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U.S. Census Bureau data reveals a nation that is very different from the United States of 100 years before.


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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged more than 40 African heads of state at the July 2001 summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Lusaka, Zambia, to depart from the "ways of the past" and create a stable, democratic, and ...


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The year 2001 was the 20th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). In May, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced that ...


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Premier Ralph Klein's Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) government, awash in dramatically higher revenues from oil and gas sales, distributed benefits to Albertans on a generous scale in 2001. On January 30, Klein announced that homeowners' credits ...


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The United States automobile industry posted positive sales totals in 2001. Yet sales failed to reach the levels they did in 2000, hurt by a sluggish economy that made consumers reluctant to buy big-ticket items. The 2001 terrorist attacks on the ...


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On Sept. 11, 2001, in one of the worst aviation disasters in history, hijackers took control of four commercial jetliners flying from the East Coast of the United States to California. After overpowering the pilots, the hijackers intentionally flew ...


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Fans in 2001 witnessed one of the most dramatic World Series in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB) and saw major individual and team records broken. The fledgling Arizona Diamondbacks of the National League (NL) defeated the New York Yankees ...


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The Los Angeles Lakers overcame a rocky regular season to retain the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship title in 2001, romping over the Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1. The Lakers went 15-1 in the play-offs, setting an NBA record for ...


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Evidence of a possible "sixth sense" in humans was reported by psychologist Martha McClintock and neurobiologist Suma Jacob of the University of Chicago in July 2001. McClintock published brain-scan images indicating that airborne chemical substances ...


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On Feb. 22, 2001, members of the federal parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina formed the nation's first nonnationalist government since the Dayton Accords established how Bosnia would be governed. The Dayton Accords, a 1995 agreement to end a civil war ...


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The U.S. Congress reacted quickly to terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, by passing measures designed to strengthen national security and bolster an already weak economy. Political observers said that the quick passage of the ...


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President George W. Bush moved in early 2001 to reverse a number of conservation initiatives proposed by his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in the waning days of his administration. He also sought to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR, ...


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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported in its Uniform Crime Report in June 2001 that crime fell nationwide by 0.2 percent in 2000, the last year for which statistics were available. It was the ninth consecutive time that crime had ...


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The prosecution of suspected war criminals developed into a major political issue in 2001 after Croatia's governing coalition cooperated with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in apprehending alleged war ...


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Cuban President Fidel Castro marked his 75th birthday on Aug. 13, 2001, amid mounting concern over his health and the future of Cuba after his death. In June, Castro nearly collapsed from heat exhaustion during a long outdoor speech in Havana, the ...


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The Democratic Party scored several victories in November 2001 elections, including taking gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. Democrats also made inroads in mayoral races, winning 32 of 34 major mayoral campaigns. Following the terrorist ...


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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder moved quickly in 2001 to offer German support for the campaign against terrorism in the wake of the attacks on the United States on September 11. Schroeder pledged to send German troops to assist U.S. forces in ...


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Greece adopted the euro on Jan. 1, 2001, joining the 11 other European Union (EU) countries that use the single currency. The achievement culminated nearly a decade of efforts to end Greece's record of high inflation and government deficits and bring ...


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Jean-Bertrand Aristide was inaugurated as president of Haiti on Feb. 7, 2001. He previously had served as president in 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. The day before the 2001 inauguration, a group of opposition parties called the Democratic ...


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The Colorado Avalanche toppled the defending champion New Jersey Devils to win the Stanley Cup in the 2000-2001 National Hockey League (NHL) season. Colorado beat New Jersey 4 games to 3, taking the title with a 3-1 victory on June 9 in Denver. The ...


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Relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated in 2001. The two nuclear powers ended the year in a tense military standoff over the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir--territory largely held by India but claimed by Pakistan since 1947. In 2001, ...


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The number of people who identified themselves solely as American Indian by race rose to 2.4 million in 2000, according to preliminary reports released by the United States Census Bureau in early 2001. The figure represented an increase of 25 percent ...


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A downturn in the world economy in 2001 had a severe impact on Latin America. The region's economic growth rate slowed to an average of 1 to 2 percent for the year, according to estimates released in September by the Economic Commission for Latin ...


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Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad al-Qadhafi, who had been shunned during most of the 1990's as a supporter of terrorism, labeled the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States "horrifying." Prior to the attacks, Qadhafi had announced that he ...


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Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin resigned in June 2001, amid reports of differences with Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed. The change came as support weakened for the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the party that has kept Mahathir in ...


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Manitoba enjoyed strong economic growth during 2001. Economists cited the export of electricity from the province's hydroelectric power plants as a profitable mainstay of the economy. The provincial budget, introduced on April 10, forecast a surplus ...


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In October 2001, dozens of people in the United States were exposed to bacterium Bacillus antracis, which causes antrax. Anthrax is a noncontagious, but potentially fatal, infectious disease that can attack people's lungs, skin, and internal organs. ...


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On Jan. 3, 2001, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher issued a report calling for a national action agenda on children's mental health. The report, the result of collaboration among the U.S. departments of education, justice, and health and human ...


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Diamonds provided a powerful spur to economic growth in the Territories, which expected to reap $30 million in income--4 percent of total budget revenues--from diamond mining and processing in 2001. (All amounts in Canadian dollars.) Output at the ...


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Voters dismissed Norway's Labour government in an election on Sept. 10, 2001, and returned Kjell Magne Bondevik to power at the head of a center-right coalition. During the campaign, Bondevik, a Lutheran minister, promised to use more of Norway's oil ...


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A dispute over salaries and protests against an antistrike law rocked Nova Scotia's health care industry in 2001. On June 27, hundreds of nurses and other health care workers threatened to resign unless the provincial government rescinded a new law ...


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Evidence mounted in 2001 that global warming is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, and wood), and dire predictions were made about the toll that global warming may take on the ocean. In addition, a hidden world was discovered ...


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On July 13, 2001, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing, China. The IOC selected Beijing over Toronto, Paris, and Istanbul. The games will be the first held in China. The selection of China was ...


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Jim Flaherty, in his first budget since being appointed finance minister in February, announced Ontario's third consecutive balanced budget on May 9. The $63-billion budget recorded a surplus of $3.1 billion. It also included the final phase of the ...


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The Liberal Party, out of office since 1952, routed the New Democratic Party (NDP) in provincial elections held on May 16, 2001. The Liberals' victory ended the NDP's 10-year control of British Columbia's government. Political analysts attributed the ...


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For Canadians, much of 2001 was a period of general prosperity. The centrist Liberal Party, triumphant after a third general election victory in 2000, dominated Canada's national political scene. Prime Minister Jean Chretien's political opponents ...


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In February 2001, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported that they had developed a type of plastic that can seal itself when cracked. Materials engineer Scott R. White said that when the polymer composite (plastic made ...


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The Chilean government struggled to create more jobs as unemployment hovered around 10 percent through much of 2001. In May, President Ricardo Lagos Escobar unveiled a program to generate as many as 150,000 new jobs. Doubts about the economy caused ...


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Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with United States President George W. Bush in Shanghai in October 2001. Jiang voiced his support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism that was triggered by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.


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Apple Computer, Inc., of Cupertino, California, began selling the Mac OS X for its Macintosh computers in March 2001. The operating system (OS, the master control program that coordinates a computer's activities) was based on Unix OS, which has long ...


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Denmark moved sharply to the political right in 2001 as Danes voted to end nine years of Social Democratic rule and elected a new center-right government. The election was the first in Western Europe since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the ...


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The Democratic Party took two gubernatorial offices from the Republican Party in 2001; voters in several major U.S. cities elected new mayors during the year; and a review, published in November, of disqualified ballots in the 2000 presidential ...


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A deepening economic downturn and a campaign against terrorism following terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 dominated Europe in 2001. The attacks dealt a blow to consumer and business confidence in Europe, worsening the slowdown of ...


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The University of Miami Hurricanes won their first national football championship since 1991 by beating the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) 37-14 in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 3, 2002. In the National Football League (NFL), the Baltimore Ravens beat the ...


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The French economy weakened in 2001, as a result of the worldwide economic slowdown. Economists projected that France's gross domestic product (GDP, the value of all goods and services produced in a year) would grow by only 2 percent in 2001, down ...


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A massive earthquake struck western India on Jan. 26, 2001, killing about 14,000 people and causing $4.5 billion in property damage. Initially, government officials feared the death toll would reach as high as 50,000, but it was later discovered that ...


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Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as president of Indonesia on July 23, 2001. She succeeded Abdurrahman Wahid who was unanimously removed from office by the People's Consultative Assembly, Indonesia's highest government authority. The ...


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The Irish people showed signs of disenchantment with the European Union (EU) in 2001. In June, voters rejected a referendum on the Nice Treaty, which included guidelines for admitting Eastern European countries into the EU. (The treaty must be ...


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A series of attacks and counterattacks in Israel in 2001 plunged Israelis and Palestinians into turmoil that bordered on all-out war. On December 13, the cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon severed all contact with Yasir Arafat, leader of ...


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Italy moved toward the political right in 2001 when voters returned Silvio Berlusconi, an Italian media tycoon, to power as prime minister in a sweeping election victory. The result marked a dramatic comeback for Berlusconi, who served briefly as ...


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On April 26, 2001, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) chose Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister. He had achieved wide popularity with party regulars by promising to be a dynamic reformer.


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Efforts by the United States government to resume negotiations with North Korea on the issue of missiles and other armaments proved to be largely ineffective in 2001. Negotiations to limit North Korea's development and testing of long-range missiles ...


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President Vicente Fox Quesada traveled to the United States in September 2001 to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush and address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Fox called upon the Congress to end a requirement that Mexico be subject to U.S. ...


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Two unprecedented crises confronted the Middle East in 2001. On September 11, Islamic militants attacked the United States in the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history, killing thousands of people. United States President George W. Bush ...


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Prime Minister Wim Kok announced in August 2001 that he would retire after the next general election, scheduled for May 2002. Kok, head of the Labor party, had led the Dutch government since 1994 and remained the country's most popular politician. His ...


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New Brunswick faced unrest among health care workers in 2001. From January 8 to January 10, about 1,300 provincial physicians walked off the job after the government rejected their demands for a 30-percent salary increase over three years. The ...


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On October 30, the lower house of Parliament approved an amendment to the Canadian constitution to formally change the province's name from Newfoundland to Newfoundland and Labrador. Canada's easternmost province consists of the island of ...


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The peace process between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland remained in disarray for much of 2001. However, the two groups achieved a major breakthrough in October when the Irish Republican Army (IRA)--a military organization ...


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A fossil described in July 2001 supported the view that some advanced types of animals evolved before the Cambrian explosion, a time approximately 540 million years ago when most major groups of modern animals first appeared in the fossil record. ...


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Alejandro Toledo, leader of the Peru Posible Party, was sworn to a five-year term as president on July 28, 2001. Toledo had risen from poverty to become a college professor and an official with the World Bank, a United Nations-affiliated organization ...


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Public demonstrations forced Joseph Estrada from the office of president in 2001. Estrada, who was impeached in November 2000, stood trial in early 2001 before the Philippine Senate on corruption charges. The Senate dissolved the proceedings in ...


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A team of scientists from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced in June 2001 that they may have solved one of the great mysteries in physics. The scientists, working at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), located at the ...


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Parliamentary elections on Sept. 23, 2001, resulted in a new governing coalition in Poland. The Democratic Left Alliance, which had governed from 1993 to 1997, won about 40 percent of the vote. Lacking a parliamentary majority, the Democratic Left ...


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President George W. Bush, who was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2001, devoted the first months of his presidency to a new energy policy, tax cuts, and the creation of a missile defense system. His aims changed drastically after terrorists attacked the ...


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Russia in 2001 enjoyed one of its most prosperous years since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian economy was strong, and tensions with the United States over U.S. President George W. Bush's plans to build a missile defense system ...


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Saskatchewan gained a new premier on January 27 when Lorne Calvert, a clergyman and political veteran, was chosen to replace Roy Romanow as head of the governing NDP. Romanow had resigned in September 2000. The NDP, with 29 members, held a slender ...


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Relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States became strained after the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. In the attacks, 19 terrorists hijack-ed four commercial airliners. They flew two jets into the World Trade Center ...


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Perennial power Brazil had a topsy-turvy season in 2001, nearly failing to qualify for the 2002 World Cup and being bumped from the top of the rankings of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of ...


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President Thabo Mbeki and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) faced scandal, controversy, and political in-fighting in 2001. On February 9, Mbeki gave a state-of-the-nation speech that many observers described as "conciliatory." Promising ...


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The International Space Station remained the primary focus of human space flight in 2001. All flights of the United States space shuttle fleet and of Russian Soyuz spacecraft were devoted to construction and support operations on the station.


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In June 2001, the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, which had been in power in the United Kingdom (UK) since 1997, was reelected with the largest majority ever recorded for a British party in its second term. Blair's personal popularity, ...


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Nong Duc Manh became secretary-general of the ruling Communist Party, Vietnam's most powerful position, on April 22, 2001. Manh, a Soviet-educated forester of the ethnic Tay minority, was Vietnam's first Communist leader who had not fought in ...


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Winter's deep chill eased in the United States at the start of 2001, after the coldest November-December period on record in 2000. In Chicago, the temperature rose above freezing on Jan. 5, 2001, ending a streak of 19 days of sub-freezing ...


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Yugoslav authorities arrested former President Slobodan Milosevic in April 2001 and turned him over to the International Tribunal for War Crimes at The Hague, the Netherlands, in June. The tribunal indicted Milosevic for various war crimes allegedly ...


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Yukon in 2001 continued to push a rival pipeline proposal--a 4,350-mile (2,700-kilometer) pipeline that would begin on Alaska's northern coast, follow the Alaska Highway south, then cut across Yukon to Alberta. In addition to being more direct, ...


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On Jan. 16, 2001, a presidential bodyguard assassinated President Laurent Kabila at the presidential palace in the capital, Kinshasa. Palace guards then shot and killed the assassin, Rashidi Kasereka. President Kabila had seized power in May 1997 from ...


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Most movie critics and fans agreed that filmmaking quality suffered during 2001 even though box-office receipts enabled most of the year's films to show a profit. The summer months featured some of the weakest offerings in recent years. In the autumn ...


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Billy Collins, named Poet Laureate of the United States in June 2001, assumed his duties in October. In a time of cultural upheaval, Collins, the 11th U.S. Poet Laureate, filled the role of statesman as well as poet and spokesperson for poets in ...


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Two top-selling young sensations released new albums in 2001 but failed to match the record-breaking sales of their earlier albums. 'N SYNC released its third album, Celebrity, in July, which sold 1.8 million copies in the first week. However, sales ...


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Theater in 2001 was a year of feast and famine in New York City. In a season marked by the resounding success of Mel Brooks's The Producers on Broadway and a series of successful revivals of classic plays, including an all-star production of Anton ...


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The world's farmers harvested bumper crops for a sixth consecutive year in 2001. However, the size of crops masked fluctuations in individual countries. Livestock producers were less fortunate, battling an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in ...


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A global economic slowdown, shortages of energy, and a world glut of coffee combined to drive Brazil's economy into recession in mid-2001. The economic downturn was worsened by a financial crisis in Argentina, Brazil's most important South American ...


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The United States on May 2001, lifted a six-month ban on potatoes from Prince Edward Island. The ban had been imposed after the discovery of the potato wart virus in a single potato field in 2000. The virus, which disfigures the potato, has no harmful ...


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Public health officials responded to the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, with new precautions to protect the public from bioterrorism, the use of biological agents in acts of terrorism. Concerns about bioterrorism arose in ...


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Sila Maria Calderon of the Popular Democratic Party became Puerto Rico's first woman governor on Jan. 2, 2001. Calderon, a former mayor of San Juan, the capital, pledged to fight political corruption and provide more assistance to poor families. She ...


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A change in leadership threw the governing Parti Quebecois (PQ), committed to the separation of Quebec from Canada, into upheaval in 2001. Deep divisions within the party surfaced, especially over the government-mandated use of the French language.


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Satellite radio, the radio industry's equivalent of cable television, finally became available to consumers on Sept. 25, 2001, when XM Satellite Radio Inc. of Washington, D.C., began broadcasting its digital signal in San Diego and Dallas-Ft. Worth. ...


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The Republican Party lost its majority in the United States Senate and lost two important gubernatorial races in 2001. Republicans in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives backed massive tax-cut legislation in 2001. In the aftermath of ...


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Spain experienced a rise in violence by separatists seeking independence for the northern Basque region throughout 2001. The separatist group ETA, whose initials stand for Basque Freedom and Homeland in the Basque language, killed several prominent ...


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Sweden held the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU) during the first half of 2001. During the country's term, the government of Prime Minister Goran Persson sought to strengthen the EU's commitment to accept new members from Eastern Europe. ...


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The telecommunications industry suffered in 2001 after several years of skyrocketing growth. Even the sector's most stable companies experienced difficulties in the changing marketplace, including having to lay off tens of thousands of workers. The ...


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In 2001, two successful television series faced each other on Thursday nights, while a new football league was a ratings disaster on Saturdays. During the summer, studio executives dodged a possible actors' strike. Following terrorist attacks on the ...


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Thaksin Chinnawat, a telecommunications billionaire, led his Thai Rak Thai party to victory in parliamentary elections in January 2001. The party, joined with two small coalition partners, won 325 out of 500 seats--the largest mandate in modern Thai ...


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President Leonid Kuchma spent most of 2001 fighting accusations that he had ordered the death of an opposition journalist. Kuchma's voice was heard on tapes made secretly by his former bodyguard and released to the public in late 2000 by Socialist ...


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The biggest architecture story of 2001 was the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York City by terrorists. Both of the 110-story skyscrapers, which were completed in 1972, collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, after two hijacked airliners ...


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Governments and museums in Europe and the United States continued in 2001 to struggle with questions concerning art stolen during World War II (1939--1945). Germany's Nazi government had seized much of the art from Jewish collectors, many of whom were ...


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North American symphony orchestras, once the mainstay of the cultural life of their cities and communities, faced serious challenges in 2001 that forced them to reexamine their relevance to culture and society. Rising budget deficits, falling ...


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Surajprasad (V. S.) Naipaul, a British citizen who was born in Trinidad in 1932, won the 2001 Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Nobel Academy praised him "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us ...


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An author's scorn for television publicity for his new book widened the rift between publishing and electronic media in 2001. Jonathan Franzen became embroiled in controversy after the Oprah Winfrey book club chose his highly praised novel The ...


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Fantasies, picture books, and nonfiction were especially popular with young readers in 2001. Some of the outstanding books of 2001 included the following:


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An energy crisis in the early months of 2001 threatened to cause widespread fuel shortages and power outages but eased during the second half of the year. The reason for the scarcity-to-glut swing in fuel and electricity supplies was a surprising, if ...


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Environmental protection policies in the United States underwent a major change with the swearing in of a new president, George W. Bush, in January 2001. President Bush supported some of the initiatives of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, such as ...


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The United Nations (UN) released revised estimates of the world's population on Feb. 28, 2001. The report, "World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision," put the 2000 global population at 6.1 billion people and projected that the world's population ...


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In October 2001, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to the United Nations (UN) and to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The committee noted in its citation that the UN is at "the forefront of efforts to achieve peace and ...


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"Texas Wild!" opened in June 2001 at the Fort Worth Zoo, featuring replicas of six Texas habitats that offer visitors a sampling of the state's remarkably diverse wildlife. The tour begins in the Hill Country of central Texas with a replica of an ...


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Safety issues cast a long shadow over professional automobile racing in 2001. Racing legend Dale Earnhardt was killed on February 18 in a crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ...


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In 2001, Croatia's Jana Kostelic became the second-youngest woman ever to win the overall World Cup title. Austrian Hermann Maier tied one of skiing's greatest records in the 2001 World Cup season before he was seriously injured in a motorcycle ...


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The deaths of two high-profile athletes cast a pall on sports in 2001. Racing legend Dale Earnhardt died on February 18 in a crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Korey Stringer, a ...


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Australia's Ian Thorpe dominated the 2001 World Swimming Championships by capturing an unprecedented six gold medals and setting three world records. A total of eight men's world records were set during the world championships, held in Fukuoka, Japan, ...


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The Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), the governing body of interna-tional chess, held its championship qualification tournament in Moscow from Nov. 25 to Dec. 14, 2001. In the event, held in the Kremlin, defending champion Viswanathan ...


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The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) soared artistically in 2001 under the direction of Kevin McKenzie. Backstage, however, the company fell into a shambles. About 30 of the company's 40 staff members resigned or were fired during 2000 and 2001. ...


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The age of informality continued in 2001 with people looking for clothing that was not extravagant, but comfortable, easy to wear, and requiring little upkeep. A typical casual outfit for a young woman in 2001 consisted of a T-shirt--possibly ...


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Many grocery and food manufacturing companies offered donations of products and money to victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon Building outside Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001. By late ...


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The United States Senate voted in July 2001 to confirm President George W. Bush's nominee, Robert S. Martin, professor and interim director of the Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies, as director of the Institute of ...


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The circulation and advertising revenues of a variety of magazines declined in 2001. The Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), a trade group headquartered in New York City, reported that the number of advertisement pages published in consumer ...


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The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on June 25, 2001, that publishers infringed on the copyrights of free-lance writers by reproducing their articles in electronic databases and on CD-ROM discs without permission from the authors. The ...


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Nobel Prizes in literature, peace, the sciences, and economics were awarded in October 2001 by the Norwegian Storting (parliament) in Oslo and by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Swedish Academy of Literature in ...


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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama, and music were awarded on April 16, 2001, by Columbia University in New York City on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.


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Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker and Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street agreed at the end of 2001 on a state take-over plan for the city's academically deficient and debt-ridden public school system. A new School Reform Commission, made up of three ...


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A seven-year effort to convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to choose Toronto as the site for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games failed in 2001. At the IOC's general meeting in Moscow on July 13, Toronto placed second with 22 votes, after ...


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Washington, D.C., became a target of a terrorist attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed a commercial jetliner into the Pentagon Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, which is located just outside ...


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United States banks in 2001 played a major role in boosting the nation's weakening economy. They also contributed to antiterrorist measures taken by the U.S. government after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York ...


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The most significant event in building and construction during 2001 was actually an act of destruction--the September 11 terrorist attack that leveled the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City. In the attack, terrorists flew hijacked ...


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According to the 2000 Census, published in 2001, the population of cities in the United States grew twice as rapidly in the 1990's as it did in the 1980's. More than three-fourths of U.S. cities--urban centers with more than 10,000 residents--reported ...


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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a regulatory agency based in Washington, D.C., grounded all civilian air traffic in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, for the first time in the nation's history. The action came after terrorists hijacked ...


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The armed forces of the United States launched a military action against terrorism after an airliner hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Pentagon Building, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, outside Washington, D.C., on ...


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In 2001, the U.S. Senate supported most of President George W. Bush's nominees for Cabinet positions and approved the majority of appointments early in the year.


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The United States Census Bureau reported in April 2001 that the population of the United States reached 281,421,906 people in 2000, an increase of 32.7 million people between 1990 and 2000. The increase was the largest in any single decade since the ...


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On May 29, 2001, a federal jury in New York City found four men guilty of charges connected to the 1998 bombing of two United States embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The terrorist attacks left 224 people dead and thousands more injured. The jury found ...


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Health care issues underwent a significant change of priorities after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Before the attacks, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress were focused on the debate over how much the federal ...


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New Zealand's Grant Dalton sailed around the world in a stunning 62 days to win the inaugural Millennium Race in 2001, and Britain's Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person to sail around the world solo.


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The bowling world mourned the August 2001 death of its all-time leading men's champion, Earl Anthony. On the lanes, three bowlers, Parker Bohn, III, Jason Couch, and Walter Ray Williams, Jr., battled for the 2001 Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) ...


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Two surprising upsets stunned boxing fans in 2001. Bernard Hopkins defeated Felix Trinidad to unify the middleweight titles, and Hasim Rahman knocked out champion Lennox Lewis to capture a pair of heavyweight titles.


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In April 2001, Eldrick "Tiger" Woods won the Professional Golfers' Association's (PGA) Masters tournament to become the first golfer to ever win four straight Grand Slam events. However, Woods's hot streak ended later in 2001, and golfers who had ...


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The mysterious deaths of more than 500 thoroughbred foals, which were stillborn or died shortly after birth, rocked the thoroughbred horse industry in Kentucky in the spring of 2001. Similar deaths were also reported at horse farms in West Virginia ...


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At the 2001 World Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver, Canada, American Michelle Kwan claimed her fourth gold medal, and Russian Yevgeny Plushenko toppled his longtime rival, fellow Russian Alexie Yagudin. In other major competitions, Russian ...


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The economic impact of the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, reverberated throughout the U.S toy industry in 2001. Consumer confidence, which had a direct effect upon retail sales of all products including toys, plummeted to ...


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Chicago's population in 2001 reflected a decade of changes that produced the city's first growth spurt in 50 years and a dramatic shift in its ethnic makeup. Data from the 2000 census, released on March 14, 2001, revealed that during the 1990's, the ...


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The United States Census Bureau released population statistics on March 12, 2001, showing that Hispanics had became the largest ethnic group in Dallas. In 2000, Hispanics made up 36 percent of city residents, compared with about 21 percent in 1990. ...


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Devastating floods in Houston and surrounding Harris County in June 2001 killed 23 people, destroyed at least 3,000 residences, and caused an estimated $5 billion in damage. From June 5 to June 9, the slow-moving remnants of Tropical Storm Allison ...


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James K. Hahn defeated fellow Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa in a runoff election for mayor on June 5, 2001, ending Villaraigosa's hope of becoming the city's first Hispanic mayor since 1872. Hahn, the Los Angeles city attorney since 1985, took office ...


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New York City suffered a shocking terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001, that left thousands of people dead and the towers of the World Trade Center reduced to rubble. The twin towers had defined the city's downtown skyline for almost 30 years. The ...


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The global economy weakened significantly in 2001, as key industrial nations slumped for much of the year and were further jolted as the result of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The U.S. economy sank into recession in 2001 ...


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International trade in goods and serv-ices lost momentum in 2001, as more and more nations fell into or near recession. The aftershocks of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 further curtailed consumer demand and imposed new ...


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A number of economists declared the economy of the United States, which had enjoyed a record-setting period of expansion from 1992 to 2001, to be in recession by the end of 2001. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit group of ...


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The manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy contracted throughout 2001, continuing a painful trend that began late in 2000. Although the broader economy hovered near recession levels for much of 2001, manufacturing appeared to be edging toward a mild ...


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Montreal on Nov. 4, 2001, came one step closer to becoming "one island, one city," with the election of Gerald Tremblay as mayor. Tremblay became head of Canada's newest and second-largest megacity when the legislated merger of 28 municipalities on ...


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Terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, profoundly affecting the heart of the global financial system. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City forced the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to stop trading for four days. The ...


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Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner James W. Ziglar announced on Oct. 10, 2001, that INS officials would decide cases involving the families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York ...


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Officials with the Social Security Administration (SSA) reported on March 19, 2001, that revenue surpluses for the Social Security program would continue until 2016, and the program would have adequate revenues until 2038. The 2001 report disclosed ...


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In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on the use of free-lance writers' work on the Internet and interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The justices also decided cases involving campaign finance, tobacco ...


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United States President George W. Bush on June 7, 2001, signed tax-cut legislation that included an unusual rebate feature under which U.S. taxpayers received refunds on their taxes. The U.S. Congress passed the legislation on May 26, 2001. It was the ...


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The Educational Testing Service (ETS) announced in February 2001 that it would stop flagging the test results of students with disabilities who had been given special accommodations--such as extra time--during tests. The ETS administers such ...


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The number of Americans using illegal drugs in 2000 rose slightly to 14 million people, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) released in October 2001. The survey is an annual report on illegal drug use prepared by the ...


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In August 2001, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a New York City-based trade group, predicted the electronics industry would sell a record $95.6 billion worth of consumer electronics products in 2001. The group cited increased demand for ...


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Muslims were profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, which were committed by radical Islamic fundamentalists. In the attacks, hijackers flew two aircraft into the World Trade Center towers in New York City ...


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Israel remained the focus of Jewish life in 2001, however, tourism to Israel declined as a result of concern about violence and terrorism. Attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon Building near Washington, D.C., on September ...


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Protestants in 2001 were divided in their response to a proposal by United States President George W. Bush that involved establishing a federal Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The office was to grant federal funds, with some ...


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Pope John Paul II marked the end of Jubilee 2000 by closing the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica on Jan. 6, 2001. According to Vatican officials, 30 million pilgrims visited Rome during the yearlong celebration, which included 34 major events. More ...


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Jennifer Capriati of the United States, whose career as a teen-age tennis star in the early 1990's faded after a series of personal problems, including allegations of shoplifting and drug abuse, roared back in 2001. Capriati captured the Australian ...


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Khaleda Zia became prime minister on Oct. 10, 2001, after her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a small allied Islamic party won 201 of the 300 seats available in parliament. Local observers reported that voters backed the BNP in response to a ...


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Aleksandr Lukashenko won reelection as president of Belarus by an overwhelming margin on Sept. 9, 2001. According to the state election commission, the president received more than 75 percent of the vote. Lukashenko initially became president in 1994. ...


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The Belgian national airline, Sabe-na SA of Brussels, became one of the first victims of the 2001 global crisis in the aviation industry when it ceased operations in November. Sabena collapsed because of its dependence on Swissair, the Swiss national ...


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In June 2001, the National Movement for Simeon II, a political party established by the former king of Bulgaria, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that left the party only one seat short of a majority. The ...


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In 2001, the military rulers of Myanmar, formerly Burma, held talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD). The NLD won 82 percent of the vote in 1990 parliamentary elections, but the military refused to give up ...


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The Cambodian government established a court to try leaders of the Khmer Rouge in 2001. The Khmer Rouge was a Communist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for the deaths of more than 1.5 million people during that time.


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On June 8, 2001, a three-judge tribunal in Guatemala gave three military officers 30-year prison sentences for the 1998 murder of Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera. Gerardi Conedera was slain after he publicly blamed the military for ...


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In June 2001, the Hungarian parliament passed a controversial law granting educational, social, and health benefits to ethnic Hungarians living outside of Hungary. The law makes identity cards available to Hungarians outside the country that enable ...


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Reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami won a second four-year term as president on June 8, 2001, with 77 percent of the vote. None-theless, Iran's conservative clerics remained opposed to many of Khatami's plans to end Iran's economic and political ...


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In late November 2001, United States President George W. Bush urged Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to allow United Nations (UN) inspectors back into Iraq to determine if Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. Hussein had expelled UN ...


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King Abdullah II announced his support for United States President George W. Bush's call for a global "war on terrorism" following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. However, many Jordanians feared that growing animosity ...


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President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his support for the United States in its war against terrorists based in Afghanistan in the wake of the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. Kazakhstan officials had expressed concern for some time ...


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The government of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase launched a large-scale program to privatize unprofitable state-owned companies in 2001 with an announcement in February that five major state-owned companies were for sale. In October, the World Bank ...


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Ranil Wickremesinghe became prime minister on Dec. 9, 2001, after his United National Party (UNP) and allies won control of parliament from the People's Alliance led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Kumaratunga had called for parliamentary ...


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President Umar al-Bashir made progress in ending Sudan's status as a "pariah among nations" during 2001. Most of the world's nations isolated Bashir's regime in the 1990's for its support of terrorism and human rights abuses.


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Switzerland suffered the worst corporate bankruptcy in its history in 2001, when the national airline, Swissair, collapsed. In the late 1990's, Swissair attempted to expand by buying stakes in airlines in Belgium, France, and Portugal, but the ...


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Syria withdrew 6,000 troops from government buildings and Christian neighborhoods in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in June 2001. Syrian officials said most of these troops returned to Syria, though some were redeployed elsewhere in Lebanon. Syrian ...


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President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) increased the number of seats it holds in the National Assembly in elections held on Dec. 1, 2001. The DPP won 87 seats, up from 66, but still short of a majority in the 225-seat house. The ...


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High doses of zinc and antioxidants may slow vision loss in patients with serious age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the National Eye Institute (NEI), a United States government research agency, reported in October 2001. Antioxidants are a group ...


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About 53.1 million students were in enrolled in elementary and secondary schools in the United States in autumn 2001. Children enrolled in private schools accounted for about 10 percent of all school-aged children. U.S. Department of Education ...


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The United States Department of Justice reported in mid-2001 that there were 1.38 million offenders under federal or state jurisdiction in 2000, an increase of 1.3 percent from 1999 but less than the average growth of 6 percent recorded during the ...


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State governments across the nation were forced to develop defensive plans of action in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon Building in Arlington, Virginia, on Sept. 11, 2001. At the request of ...


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The Supreme Court of the United States on Feb. 28, 2001, ruled that the U.S. Congress had violated the First Amendment when it prohibited lawyers from the Legal Services Corporation, a federally funded organization based in Washington, D.C., from ...


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The Greek Orthodox Church elected Metropolitan Irineos I as Patriarch of Jerusalem in August 2001. The Israeli government, to whom the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem had submitted a list of 15 candidates for approval in July, initially ...


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Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine stunned the track world in August by defeating Marion Jones of the United States in the 100-meter sprint finals at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Canada. The loss snapped Jones's string of 42 consecutive ...


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A coalition of military forces led by the United States launched a campaign against Afghanistan in 2001 that toppled the ruling Taliban regime in December. The Taliban was an Islamic fundamentalist movement that had controlled most of Afghanistan ...


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The ruling Socialist Party won a majority in the Albanian parliament in elections in June and July 2001. The party, headed by Prime Minister Ilir Meta, captured 73 of 140 seats. The opposition Democratic Party, which took 46 seats, boycotted the new ...


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The worst civil unrest in Algeria since it gained independence in 1962 stunned the military-backed government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2001. The unrest overshadowed the government's war against Islamic militants, which claimed the lives of ...


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The far-right Freedom Party suffered a setback in 2001 after a decade of political advancement. The party won just 20 percent of the vote in elections in Vienna on March 25, down from 28 percent in the previous city election in 1996 and the party's 28 ...


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The contested enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh dominated relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2001. Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region with an ethnic Armenian majority, seceded from Azerbaijan in 1988, sparking a six-year war between Azerbaijan ...


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Many Colombians lost hope in 2001 that negotiations begun by Colombian President Andres Pastrana Arango in 1998 would end the 37-year-old civil war with leftist rebels. "There now seems to be a new belief in military solutions," noted Jan Egeland, the ...


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The United States launched a multipronged war on terrorism in 2001 in response to terrorist attacks made on September 11. Terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners in flight over the eastern United States. They crashed two of the jets into the ...


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Protests in the Czech Republic over the highly unpopular appointment of a new director of Czech state television escalated in early 2001 into the largest street demonstrations in Prague, the capital, since the 1989 revolution that brought down the ...


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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resisted pressure from the United States to join a "war on terrorism" following terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. Mubarak feared he would fuel Muslim-Christian strife in Egypt if he supported ...


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Two earthquakes struck populous suburban communities near San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, on Jan. 13, 2001, and February 13. The tremors left approximately 1,150 people dead and 1.2 million people--about one-sixth of El Salvador's ...


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Tensions between Russia and Georgia dramatically worsened in October 2001, when the Georgian government demanded that Russian peacekeepers leave Georgia's separatist province Abkhazia. Russian troops have maintained a cease-fire in Abkhazia since the ...


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Demands by the United States government that Lebanese authorities prosecute or extradite (turn over) alleged terrorists living in Lebanon raised sensitive political issues in 2001. Lebanese officials denounced the terrorist attacks on the United ...


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Members of New Zealand's National Party, seeking new leadership after poor popularity polls, voted out party leader Jenny Shipley in October 2001. Shipley had served as New Zealand's first woman prime minister from 1997 to 1999 but had led the party ...


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Enrique Bolanos, a former vice president and the candidate of the ruling Liberal Constitutionalist Party, was elected president of Nicaragua on Nov. 4, 2001. Bolanos defeated Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a former president. Bolanos received 54 percent of ...


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The South Pacific Forum, an organization that promotes cooperation among small, independent Pacific nations, Australia, and New Zealand, observed its 30th anniversary in 2001. Delegates at an August meeting in Nauru discussed two major issues: plans ...


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A United States-led military campaign in Afghanistan, which began on Oct. 7, 2001, brought both trouble and benefits to Pakistan. The campaign was part of a "war against terrorism" in response to terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11. ...


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Prime Minister Antonio Guterres resigned after six years in power in late 2001, after his ruling Socialist Party suffered a heavy defeat in local elections. The resignation culminated a year of political difficulties for the Socialists as Portugal's ...


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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Turkish cities in April 2001 to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit. A 9-percent reduction in government spending, the loss of more than 400,000 jobs, and huge price increases ...


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The terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, changed Uzbekistan's relations with other nations, particularly with the United States. President Islam Karimov quickly offered his support to the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan, ...


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President Hugo Chavez Frias faced mounting opposition in 2001 as he sought to impose his populist, leftist agenda on Venezuela. During the year, teachers, oil workers, trade unionists, journalists, military officers, and business and cultural leaders ...


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West Indies. The pace of economic and political cooperation among the countries and colonies of the Caribbean region picked up steam in 2001. In December, the 28 nations of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) met in Venezuela, where they ...


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Passage of a major administrative reform by Slovakia's parliament nearly broke up the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda in 2001. The reform, required as a condition for European Union (EU) membership, created eight regions that were ...


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Officials of Sierra Leone's government and leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) agreed on May 15, 2001, to take steps to end Sierra Leone's civil war, which began in 1991. Both sides accepted a cease-fire and agreed to begin a process of ...


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President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) stepped up attacks in 2001 on its opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and on Zimbabwe's judiciary and media. The targets of ...


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A - Special ways of expressing the letter A


Title:
A Breath-Taking Ailment: Learning to Control Asthma


Title:
A Common Standard--50 Years of Defending Human Rights for All


Title:
A Thousand Years of Scientific Discovery


Title:
ABBOTT, SIR JOHN JOSEPH CALDWELL - Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott


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ABORIGINES - Aboriginal migration routes & archaeological sites


Title:
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site


Title:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Title:
ADAMS, ABIGAIL SMITH [electronic - Abigail Smith Adams


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ADAMS, JOHN - Original design for the White House


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ADAMS, JOHN - U.S. states and territories under Adams


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Adams, John Quincy - John Quincy Adams timeline


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ADAMS, LOUISA JOHNSON - Louisa Johnson Adams


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ADOLESCENT - Teen-agers spend time together


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AEGEAN CIVILIZATION - Aegean civilization


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AERODYNAMICS - Stringlike lines represent airflow


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AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan's rugged landscape


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AFGHANISTAN - Sorode Meli (National Anthem)


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AFRICA - Agriculture and fishing in Africa


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AFRICA - Average January temperatures in Africa


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AFRICA - Average July temperatures in Africa


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AFRICA - Average yearly precipitation in Africa


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AFRICA - Cattle herding south of the Sahara


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AFRICA - Houses of the Ndnzundza of South Africa


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AFRICA - Islamic wedding procession in Egypt


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AFRICA - Mining and manufacturing in Africa


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AFRICA - Picking cotton in the Nile River Valley


Title:
AFRICA - Traditional education in Africa


Title:
African Americans - African Americans timeline


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AFRICAN AMERICANS - Civil rights demonstration broken up by police


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AFRICAN AMERICANS - North American slave trade


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AFRICAN AMERICANS - Where African Americans live


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AFRICAN HUNTING DOG - African hunting dog


Title:
African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.)


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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion)


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AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS - Celebration of the ANC's election victory


Title:
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS)


Title:
AGRICULTURE - Agriculture in the Eastern Hemisphere


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AGRICULTURE - Agriculture in the Western Hemisphere


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AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Agriculture seal


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AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of agriculture flag


Title:
AIDS - AIDS viruses in a white blood cell


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AIR CUSHION VEHICLE (ACV) - "Cushion" of air


Title:
AIR FORCE, UNITED STATES - Air Force dress uniforms


Title:
AIR FORCE, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Air Force enlisted personnel


Title:
AIR FORCE, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Air Force officers


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AIR FORCE, UNITED STATES - U.S. Air Force flag


Title:
Air Force, United States - U.S. Air Force timeline


Title:
Air Transport Association of America (ATA)


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AIRCRAFT CARRIER - Parts of an aircraft carrier


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AIRCRAFT, MILITARY - Early military aircraft


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AIRCRAFT, MILITARY - Fighter airplane: French Mirage 2000


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AIRCRAFT, MILITARY - Later military aircraft


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AIRCRAFT, MILITARY - Transport airplane: C-17 Globemaster III


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AIRPLANE - Airplane (Single-propeller): Take off


Title:
Airplane - Airplane development timeline


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AIRPLANE - Basic cockpit controls and instruments


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AIRPLANE - Early design for a flying machine


Title:
Airplane - Famous airplane flights timeline


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AIRPLANE - First glider by Wright brothers


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AIRPLANE - First human flights were in balloons


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AIRPLANE - Forces acting on an airplane in flight


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AIRPLANE - The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet


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AIRPLANE - The North American F-100 Super Sabre


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ALABAMA [state] - Alabama bird, flower, and tree


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ALABAMA [state] - Average January temperatures in Alabama


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ALABAMA [state] - Average July temperatures in Alabama


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ALABAMA [state] - Average yearly precipitation in Alabama


Title:
AIRPLANE - How thrust is produced by a jet engine


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AIRPLANE - How thrust is produced by propeller blades


Title:
AIRPLANE - National Air and Space Museum


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AIRPLANE - Orville Wright preparing for takeoff


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AIRPLANE - The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress


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ALABAMA [state] - Martin Luther King, Jr.


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ALABAMA [state] - Swimming hole in Alabama


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Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University


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ALASKA - Average January temperatures in Alaska


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ALASKA - Average July temperatures in Alaska


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ALASKA - Average yearly precipitation in Alaska


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ALBANIA - Hymni i Flamurit (Anthem of the Flag)


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ALBERTA - Alberta seal and floral emblem


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ALBERTA - Average January temperatures in Alberta


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ALBERTA - Average July temperatures in Alberta


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ALBERTA - Average yearly precipitation in Alberta


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ALBERTA - Rock formations in the Badlands


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ALBERTA - Vast wheat fields on the Alberta Plain


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ALBERTA - Victoria Glacier and Lake Louise


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ALBRIGHT, MADELEINE KORBEL - Madeleine Albright


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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Bureau of


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ALEXANDER THE GREAT - Alexander the Great


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ALEXANDER THE GREAT - Alexander the Great's empire


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ALGAE - Spherical colonies of the green alga Volvox


Title:
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument


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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site


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ALLEN, GRACIE - Gracie Allen and George Burns


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AMAZON RIVER - Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers


Title:
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters


Title:
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education


Title:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)


Title:
American Association of University Women (AAUW)


Title:
American Council on Alcohol Problems (ACAP)


Title:
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research


Title:
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)


Title:
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)


Title:
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees


Title:
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)


Title:
AMERICAN GOTHIC - American Gothic by Grant Wood


Title:
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics


Title:
American literature - American literature timeline


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AMERICAN SAMOA - Pago Pago, American Samoa


Title:
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)


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AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER - American Staffordshire terrier


Title:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)


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AMERICAN WATER SPANIEL - American water spaniel


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AMMUNITION - Common calibers of cartridges


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AMMUNITION - Kinds of small-arms ammunition


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ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN - Hans Christian Andersen


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ANIMAL - Animals of the temperate forests


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ANIMAL - Animals of the tropical forests


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ANIMAL - Fur seals start life in a group


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ANIMAL - Large horns of the Cape buffalo


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ANIMAL - Long, powerful legs of an ostrich


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ANIMAL - Male antelope marks his territory


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ANIMAL - Migration of the European white stork


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ANIMAL - Peregrine falcon chick receives a meal


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ANIMAL - Water spider breathes underwater


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ANTARCTICA - Antarctica territorial claims


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ANTARCTICA - McMurdo Station, Antarctica


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ANTARCTICA - Researcher at the South Pole


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ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL - Susan B. Anthony


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ANTIBIOTIC - How antibiotics are produced


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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Antigua and Barbuda


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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Antigua and Barbuda flag


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APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS - Appalachian Mountains


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APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE - McLean House, site of Lee's surrender to Grant


Title:
Aquariums, Living Jewels of Light and Motion


Title:
Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab-Israeli conflict timeline


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ARABS - Harsh, sparsely populated deserts


Title:
ARABS - Muslim Arabs pray at Cairo mosque


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ARC DE TRIOMPHE - Paris: Arc de Triomphe


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Archaeologists excavate ruins of an ancient city


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Army of life-sized statues


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Egyptian statue retrieved from the Mediterranean


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Mayan palace excavation site


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Mummies discovered in Egyptian desert


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ARCHAEOLOGY - Rendering of an ancient Anasazi ceremonial center


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ARCHES NATIONAL PARK - Arches National Park


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ARCHITECTURE - Carson Pirie Scott & Company Building


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ARCHITECTURE - Citadel of King Sargon II


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ARCHITECTURE - Dome of the Cathedral of Florence


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ARCHITECTURE - Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange


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ARCHITECTURE - IIT Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


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ARCHITECTURE - Maria Laach Abbey Church in Germany


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ARCHITECTURE - Traditional Chinese architecture


Title:
ARECIBO OBSERVATORY - Arecibo Observatory


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ARGENTINA - Andes Mountains in Argentina


Title:
ARIZONA [state] - Arizona bird, flower, and tree


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ARIZONA [state] - Arizona's Colorado Plateau


Title:
ARIZONA [state] - Average January temperatures in Arizona


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ARIZONA [state] - Average July temperatures in Arizona


Title:
ARIZONA [state] - Average yearly precipitation in Arizona


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ARIZONA [state] - Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona


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ARIZONA [state] - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument


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ARKANSAS - Arkansas bird, flower, and tree


Title:
ARKANSAS - Average January temperatures in Arkansas


Title:
ARKANSAS - Average July temperatures in Arkansas


Title:
ARKANSAS - Average yearly precipitation in Arkansas


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ARKANSAS - Craftworker in northern Arkansas


Title:
ARKANSAS - Fishermen in northern Arkansas


Title:
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY - Arlington National Cemetery


Title:
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, United States


Title:
ARMSTRONG, NEIL ALDEN - Neil A. Armstrong


Title:
ARMY, UNITED STATES - Army green uniform


Title:
ARMY, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Army enlisted personnel


Title:
ARMY, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Army officers


Title:
Army, United States - U.S. Army timeline


Title:
ART AND THE ARTS - Students examining a painting by El Greco


Title:
ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN - Chester A. Arthur


Title:
Arthur, Chester Alan - Chester Arthur timeline


Title:
ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN - Ellen Herndon Arthur


Title:
ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN - Mary Arthur McElroy


Title:
ARTIFICIAL HEART - Air-powered artificial heart


Title:
ARTIFICIAL LIMB - Myoelectric artificial arm


Title:
ASIA - Asian countries: Dates of independence


Title:
ASIA - Asian empires: 300's and 200's B.C.


Title:
ASIA - Asian empires: A.D. 100's to 300's


Title:
ASIA - Asian empires: A.D. 1500's to 1700's


Title:
ASIA - Average January temperatures in Asia


Title:
ASIA - Average July temperatures in Asia


Title:
ASIA - Average yearly precipitation in Asia


Title:
ASIAN AMERICANS - Ancient Chinese exercises


Title:
ASIAN AMERICANS - Japanese detention camps during World War II


Title:
ASIAN AMERICANS - Where Asian Americans live


Title:
ASIAN LONG-HORNED BEETLE - Asian long-horned beetle


Title:
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History


Title:
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)


Title:
ASSYRIA - Assyrian art (stone relief from 700's B.C.)


Title:
ASSYRIA - Location of the Assyrian Empire


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Detecting redshift and blueshift


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Image produced by radio telescope


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Locating a star by declination and right ascension


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Modern explanation of planetary movement


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Ptolemy's theory of planetary movement


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Radiation produced by a black hole


Title:
ASTRONOMY - Very Large Array radio observatory


Title:
ATLANTA - Atlanta: City and points of interest


Title:
ATLANTA - Coca-Cola Company headquarters


Title:
ATLANTA - Tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr.


Title:
ATLANTIC CHARTER - Atlantic Charter adopted in 1941


Title:
ATOM - How atoms compare in weight and size


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Agriculture and fishing in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Australian Aborigine folk music


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Australian state growth by 1911


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Average January temperatures in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Average July temperatures in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Average yearly precipitation in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Housing in Australia's cities


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Koala eating eucalyptus leaves


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Mining and manufacturing in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - Population density in Australia


Title:
AUSTRALIA - School for Aboriginal children


Title:
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES - Pileated woodpeckers by John James Audubon


Title:
AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL - Australian rules football field


Title:
AUSTRALOPITHECUS - Three types of Australopithecus


Title:
AUSTRIA - Land of Mountains, Land at the River


Title:
AUTOMATION - Automated temperature control


Title:
AUTOMOBILE - Major systems of an automobile


Title:
AUTOMOBILE - Transferring power to the wheels


Title:
AUTOMOBILE RACING - Automobile-racing flags


Title:
AUTOMOBILE RACING - Kinds of automobile racing courses and tracks


Title:
AVALANCHE - Avalanche in the Austrian Alps


Title:
AZTEC - Human sacrifice in Aztec religion


Title:
B - Special ways of expressing the letter B


Title:
Baby Boom:The Promise and Risks of Fertility


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Allegro


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Christmas Oratorio


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Johann Sebastian Bach


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Orchestral Suite No. 2


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - The Art of Fugue


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Toccata and Fugue in D minor


Title:
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1


Title:
BAFFIN ISLAND - Location of Baffin Island


Title:
BALBOA, VASCO NUNEZ DE - Balboa's New World journeys


Title:
BALBOA, VASCO NUNEZ DE - Vasco Nunez de Balboa


Title:
BALLOON - Breitling Orbiter 3 flying over the Swiss Alps


Title:
BANGLADESH - Amar Sonar Bangla (My Golden Bengal)


Title:
BANGLADESH - Rural village in Bangladesh


Title:
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)


Title:
BARYSHNIKOV, MIKHAIL - Mikhail Baryshnikov


Title:
BASEBALL - Home plate area of a baseball field


Title:
BANNISTER, SIR ROGER - Sir Roger Bannister


Title:
Basketball - NBA champions since 1950 timeline


Title:
BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL - Jean-Michel Basquiat


Title:
BASS [musical instrument] - Bass (violin)


Title:
BATISTA Y ZALDIVAR, FULGENCIO - Fulgencio Batista


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BATTERY [electricity] - Parts of a 9-volt battery


Title:
BATTERY [electricity] - Parts of a carbon-zinc cell


Title:
BATTERY [electricity] - Parts of a lead-acid storage battery


Title:
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Ludwig van Beethoven


Title:
Beethoven, Ludwig van - Ludwig van Beethoven timeline


Title:
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Moonlight Sonata


Title:
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Symphony No. 3, Eroica, by Beethoven


Title:
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Symphony No. 9, by Beethoven


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BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Waldstein (sonata)


Title:
BEIJING - Beijing: City and points of interest


Title:
BEIJING - Carved stone gateways in Beijing


Title:
BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM - Alexander Graham Bell


Title:
Bell, Alexander Graham - Alexander Graham Bell timeline


Title:
Bellarmine, Saint Robert Francis Romulus


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BELGIUM - Brussels's main square, the Grand' Place


Title:
BELGIUM - Farmland in eastern Belgium, near Hamoir


Title:
BELGIUM - La Brabanconne (The Brabant Song)


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BENIN [ancient kingdom] - Benin kingdom about 1500


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BENNETT, RICHARD BEDFORD - Richard Bedford Bennett


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BERLIN - Berlin sectors after World War II


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BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG - Bernese mountain dog


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BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO - Bernardo Bertolucci


Title:
BETHUNE, MARY MCLEOD - Mary McLeod Bethune


Title:
BIG BEN - Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament


Title:
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - Replacement hip joint


Title:
Biometric Identification:Is That Really You?


Title:
BIRD - Bird migration: British yellow wagtail


Title:
BIRD - Bird migration: Sharp-tailed sandpiper


Title:
BIRD - Birds of Australia and the Pacific Islands


Title:
BIRD - Birds of Central and South America


Title:
BIRD - Birds of inland waters and marshes


Title:
BIRD - Birds of the ocean and the Antarctic


Title:
BIRD - How wing shape affects flying skills


Title:
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park


Title:
BLANK VERSE - Shakespeare's use of blank verse


Title:
BLINDNESS - Beeper Ball, softball for the blind


Title:
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS - Blue Ridge Parkway


Title:
BOMBER - Cross section of a strategic bomber


Title:
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT - Bone marrow transplant preparation


Title:
BOOKBINDING - How a Smyth-sewed book is bound


Title:
BOOMERANG - Parts of a right-handed returning boomerang


Title:
BORDEN, SIR ROBERT LAIRD - Sir Robert L. Borden


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Boston "Pops" Orchestra


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Boston flag and seal


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Boston's Copley Square


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Downtown Boston


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Faneuil Hall Marketplace


Title:
BOSTON [Massachusetts] - Historic Faneuil Hall


Title:
Boston African American National Historic Site


Title:
BOWELL, SIR MACKENZIE - Sir Mackenzie Bowell


Title:
BOTTICELLI, SANDRO - La Primavera (Springtime) by Botticelli


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Motor and somatosensory areas


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Nerve pathways cross over


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Positron emission tomography (PET)


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Structure of the human brain


Title:
BRAZIL - Average January temperatures in Brazil


Title:
BRAZIL - Average July temperatures in Brazil


Title:
BRAZIL - Average yearly precipitation in Brazil


Title:
BRAZIL - Carnival festival in Rio de Janeiro


Title:
BRAZIL - Steel works in Minas Gerais, Brazil


Title:
BRAHMS, JOHANNES - Academic Festival Overture


Title:
BRAHMS, JOHANNES - Symphony No. 2 in D major


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Brain (cutaway) MultiViews


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Brain (left hemisphere) MultiViews


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Brains of some vertebrates


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Cerebellum (left hemisphere)


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Cerebral cortex (cutaway)


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Cerebral cortex (left hemisphere)


Title:
BRAIN [anatomy] - Computerized tomography (CT)


Title:
BRISTLECONE PINE - Great Basin bristlecone pine


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Average January temperatures in British Columbia


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Average July temperatures in British Columbia


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Average yearly precipitation in British Columbia


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - British Columbia flag and coat of arms


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - British Columbia seal and floral emblem


Title:
British Columbia - British Columbia timeline


Title:
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park


Title:
Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. (BHP)


Title:
BROOKLYN BRIDGE - New York: Brooklyn Bridge


Title:
BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE - The Reapers by Jules Adolphe Breton


Title:
BRIDGE [engineering] - Vertical lift bridge


Title:
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site


Title:
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT - Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Title:
BRUCE, BLANCHE KELSO - Blanche Kelso Bruce


Title:
BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS - William Jennings Bryan


Title:
Buchanan, James - James Buchanan timeline


Title:
BUCHANAN, JAMES - U.S. states and territories under Buchanan


Title:
BUCKINGHAM PALACE - London: Buckingham Palace


Title:
BUENOS AIRES - Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires


Title:
Bullying: A Silent Nightmare in the Schoolyard


Title:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton


Title:
BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


Title:
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation


Title:
BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON - Frances Hodgson Burnett


Title:
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION - Building construction of a skyscraper


Title:
BURNSIDE, AMBROSE EVERETT - Ambrose Burnside


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE WALKER - George Walker Bush


Title:
Business and Professional Women's Clubs, National Federation of


Title:
BUTTERFLY - Blue, copper, and hairstreak butterflies


Title:
BUTTERFLY - Satyr and wood nymph butterflies


Title:
BUTTERFLY - Sulfur and white butterflies


Title:
BYZANTINE ART - Christian themes in Byzantine art


Title:
BYZANTINE EMPIRE - Byzantine Empire: A.D. 1350


Title:
BYZANTINE EMPIRE - Byzantine Empire: A.D. 500's


Title:
BYZANTINE EMPIRE - Byzantine Empire: A.D. 876-1057


Title:
C - Special ways of expressing the letter C


Title:
CAESAR, JULIUS - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Antony


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER - Bush sends U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER - Bush's inaugural address (G. H. W. Bush)


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER - George Bush and Dan Quayle


Title:
Bush, George Herbert Walker - George H. W. Bush timeline


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER - George Herbert Walker Bush


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE WALKER - George W. Bush and his family


Title:
BUSH, GEORGE WALKER - George W. Bush and Richard Cheney


Title:
Bush, George Walker - George W. Bush timeline


Title:
CAISSON [construction] - Pneumatic caisson


Title:
CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL - John C. Calhoun


Title:
Calhoun, John Caldwell - John C. Calhoun timeline


Title:
CALIFORNIA - Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California


Title:
CALIFORNIA - Average January temperatures in California


Title:
CALIFORNIA - Average July temperatures in California


Title:
CALIFORNIA - Average yearly precipitation in California


Title:
CALIFORNIA - California bird, flower, and tree


Title:
CALIFORNIA - San Francisco earthquake of 1906


Title:
CAMERA - Parts of a single-lens reflex camera


Title:
CANADA - Average January temperatures in Canada


Title:
CANADA - Average July temperatures in Canada


Title:
CANADA - Average yearly precipitation in Canada


Title:
CANADA - Indians of Canada's Pacific Coast


Title:
CANADA - People of Asian descent in Canada


Title:
CANADA, GOVERNMENT OF - Canadian Parliament buildings


Title:
CANADA, HISTORY OF - Canada's newest province and territory


Title:
Canadian literature - Canadian literature timeline


Title:
CANAL - How a ship moves through a canal lock


Title:
CANALETTO (GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANA - Painting of Venice by Canaletto


Title:
CANCER [disease] - Examination for lung cancer


Title:
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's parliament buildings, Cape Town


Title:
CAPITOL, UNITED STATES - United States Capitol building


Title:
CARAWAY, HATTIE OPHELIA WYATT - Hattie Caraway


Title:
CARBON DIOXIDE - Carbon dioxide in the air


Title:
Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Tracking the "Silent Killer"


Title:
CARDINAL [bird] - Male and female Northern cardinal


Title:
CAREERS - Art, design, and communications workers


Title:
CAREERS - Customer service representative


Title:
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site


Title:
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching


Title:
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME - Carpal tunnel syndrome


Title:
Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Brotherhood of


Title:
CARTER, JIMMY - Carter's inaugural address


Title:
CARTER, JIMMY - President Carter's family


Title:
CARTER, ROSALYNN SMITH - Rosalynn Carter


Title:
CARTOON - Cartoon supporting antitrust policy


Title:
CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON - George Washington Carver


Title:
Carver, George Washington - George Washington Carver timeline


Title:
CASSATT, MARY - The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt


Title:
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument


Title:
CASTLE - Stone castle of the Middle Ages


Title:
CATHERINE THE GREAT - Catherine the Great


Title:
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA - Catholic University of America


Title:
CAVE - Sectional view of a solution cave


Title:
CD-ROM's: Multimedia Computing on a Silver Platter


Title:
CELL [biology] - Cells of a plant root tip


Title:
CELL [biology] - Shapes of some types of cells


Title:
CELLULAR TELEPHONE - Cellular telephone system


Title:
CATT, CARRIE CHAPMAN - Carrie Chapman Catt


Title:
Center for Science in the Public Interest


Title:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Title:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Bangui, Central African Republic


Title:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Central African Republic


Title:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Central African Republic symbols


Title:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - La Renaissance (Rebirth)


Title:
Chamber of Commerce of the United States


Title:
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE - Champlain's explorations


Title:
CHANCE, FRANK - Chicago Cubs 1906 infield


Title:
CHAD - Oasis in the desert of northern Chad


Title:
Chaucer, Geoffrey - Geoffrey Chaucer timeline


Title:
CHECHNYA - Russian troops capture Groznyy


Title:
Cheltenham International Festival of Music


Title:
CHERNOMYRDIN, VIKTOR STEPANOVICH - Viktor Chernomyrdin


Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park


Title:
CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER - Chesapeake Bay retriever


Title:
CHICAGO [Illinois] - Buckingham Memorial Fountain


Title:
CHICAGO [Illinois] - Chicago flag and seal


Title:
CHICAGO [Illinois] - Chicago's Gold Coast


Title:
CHICAGO [Illinois] - Reliance Building, Chicago


Title:
CHICKEN - Golden Sebright bantam rooster


Title:
Childhood Education International, Association for


Title:
Children and Families, Administration for


Title:
CHILE - Fish market in Valparaiso, Chile


Title:
CHINA [country] - Average January temperatures in China


Title:
CHINA [country] - Average July temperatures in China


Title:
CHINA [country] - Average yearly precipitation in China


Title:
CHINA [country] - Basketball game in Beijing


Title:
CHINA [country] - Bridge construction in China


Title:
CHINA [country] - Chinese ancient ceremonial music


Title:
CHINA [country] - Chinese traditional court music


Title:
CHINA [country] - March of the Volunteers


Title:
CHINA [country] - Population density in China


Title:
CHINA [country] - Scenic limestone hills


Title:
CHINA [country] - University students in library in Beijing


Title:
CHINA [country] - Yangtze Valley in China


Title:
CHINESE SHAR-PEI - Chinese shar-pei puppy


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - Ballade No. 1


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - Frederic Chopin


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - Mazurka in F major


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - Scherzo No. 2


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - The Minute Waltz


Title:
CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS - Waltz in D flat, Op. 64, No. 1: "Minute"


Title:
CHRISTMAS - Church services on Christmas morning


Title:
CHURCHILL, CARYL - Top Girls by Caryl Churchill


Title:
CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON LEONARD S - Sir Winston Churchill


Title:
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard S - Sir Winston Churchill timeline


Title:
CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON LEONARD S - Winston Churchill and King George VI


Title:
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS - Marcus Tullius Cicero


Title:
CINCINNATI - Cincinnati: City and points of interest


Title:
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - Human circulatory system


Title:
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - Some functions of the circulatory system


Title:
CIRCUS - Circus music: Entrance of the Gladiators


Title:
CIVIL RIGHTS - Blacks voting in Harlem, 1964


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Black troops in the Civil War


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): Battle of Gettysburg


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): battles and campaigns East


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): battles and campaigns West


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): Confed. victory at Chancel..


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): Divided Nation


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Civil War (American): Final battles and campaigns


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Medical care during the Civil War


Title:
CIVIL WAR - Sherman's march through Georgia


Title:
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Baroque music (Handel)


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Baroque music: Handel concerto


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Baroque music: Piano sonata


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Baroque period composers


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical aleatory music


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical atonal music


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical electronic music


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical minimalist music


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical music from the 1700's


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical music from the 1800's


Title:
Classical music - Classical music timeline


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical nationalistic music


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical period composers


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical romantic music (Brahms)


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical romantic music (Chopin)


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Classical romantic music (Tchaikovsky)


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - John Adams, American composer


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Medieval music: Gregorian chant


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Renaissance music: Franco-Flemish


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Renaissance music: Greensleeves


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Renaissance music: Vocal


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Romantic era composers


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - San Francisco Orchestra


Title:
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Stravinsky's The Firebird


Title:
Cleaning up misconceptions about antibacterial products


Title:
Clearing the Air About Electronic Air Cleaners


Title:
CLEARINGHOUSE - How a clearinghouse works


Title:
CLEVELAND - Cleveland: City and points of interest


Title:
CLEVELAND - Industry along the Cuyahoga River


Title:
CLEVELAND, FRANCES FOLSOM - Frances Folsom Cleveland


Title:
Cleveland, Grover - Grover Cleveland timeline


Title:
CLEVELAND, GROVER - U.S. states and territories under Cleveland


Title:
CLIMATE - Ice core drilled from a glacier


Title:
CLIMATE - Tilt of the earth's axis changes


Title:
CLINTON, BILL - Clinton with President John F. Kennedy


Title:
CLINTON, BILL - Clinton's first inaugural address


Title:
CLINTON, BILL - Running mates Bill Clinton and Al Gore


Title:
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM - Hillary Rodham Clinton


Title:
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM - Hillary Rodham Clinton elected Senator


Title:
COAL - How impurities are removed from coal


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coast guard airplane


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coast Guard cutter ship


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coast guard helicopter


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coast Guard training ship


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coastguardsman checking for oil-spill damage


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Coastguardsman inspecting fish catch


Title:
CLOTHING - Costumes of Africa and the Middle East


Title:
CLOTHING - Costumes of Asia and the Pacific Islands


Title:
CLOTHING - Costumes of North and South America


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Lifeboat in rough seas


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Navigational buoy


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - Port security boat


Title:
COAST GUARD, UNITED STATES - U.S. Coast Guard flag


Title:
Coast Guard, United States - U.S. Coast Guard timeline


Title:
COEN, ETHAN AND JOEL - Joel and Ethan Coen


Title:
COIN COLLECTING - Rare and interesting coins


Title:
COLOMBIA - Colombia flag and coat of arms


Title:
COLOMBIA - Colorful textiles in Colombia


Title:
Colonial Dames of America, National Society of the


Title:
Colonial life in America - Colonial life in America timeline


Title:
COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA - First permanent English settlement in America


Title:
COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA - Phillis Wheatley


Title:
COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA - Some colonial utensils


Title:
COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA - The thirteen colonies in 1763


Title:
COLOR - How two pigments produce a third color


Title:
COLORADO - Average January temperatures in Colorado


Title:
COLORADO - Average July temperatures in Colorado


Title:
COLORADO - Average yearly precipitation in Colorado


Title:
COLORADO - Colorado bird, flower, and tree


Title:
COLUMBUS [Ohio] - Columbus flag and seal


Title:
COLUMBUS [Ohio] - Columbus: City and points of interest


Title:
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER - Christopher Columbus


Title:
Columbus, Christopher - Christopher Columbus timeline


Title:
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER - Columbus's first voyage westward


Title:
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER - Columbus's voyages


Title:
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Commerce seal


Title:
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of commerce flag


Title:
COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS - Commonwealth of Nations


Title:
COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - Communications satellite


Title:
COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - Satellite operations control room


Title:
COMMUNISM - Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev


Title:
COMPOSITE FAMILY - Plants of the composite family


Title:
COMPOUND EYE - Compound eye of a fruit fly


Title:
COMPUTER - Stephen G. Wozniak and Steven P. Jobs


Title:
COMPUTER - Weather forecasting with computers


Title:
COMPUTER CHIP - Magnified view of a computer chip


Title:
COMPUTER GRAPHICS - Computer image of Lysozyme


Title:
COMPUTERIZED INSTRUCTION - Computers in the classroom


Title:
CONCENTRATION CAMP - Nazi concentration camp


Title:
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA - Confederate States of America


Title:
CONFEDERATION OF CANADA - Fathers of Confederation


Title:
CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) - Congo (Brazzaville)


Title:
CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) - Congo (Brazzaville) flag


Title:
CONGO (KINSHASA) - Congo (Kinshasa) flag


Title:
CONGO (KINSHASA) - Congo (Kinshasa) folk music


Title:
Congo (Kinshasa) - Congo (Kinshasa) timeline


Title:
CONGO (KINSHASA) - Congo River in Congo (Kinshasa)


Title:
Congress Makes a Decision: Passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964


Title:
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)


Title:
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES - Joint session of the U.S. Congress


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Average January temperatures in Connecticut


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Average July temperatures in Connecticut


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Average yearly precipitation in Connecticut


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Connecticut bird, flower, and tree


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Connecticut village in autumn


Title:
CONNECTICUT - Yale University's Memorial Quadrangle


Title:
CONRAD, CHARLES, JR. - Charles Conrad, Jr.


Title:
CONSERVATION - Scientist collects water samples


Title:
CONSERVATION - Students plant Christmas trees


Title:
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATE - Assembly Room of the Pennsylvania State House


Title:
Consumer Affairs, United States Office of


Title:
Controlling the Costs of Pet Health Care


Title:
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora


Title:
COOK ISLANDS - Cook Islands: traditional wedding song


Title:
Coolidge, Calvin - Calvin Coolidge timeline


Title:
COOLIDGE, GRACE GOODHUE - Grace Goodhue Coolidge


Title:
CORAL SNAKE - South American coral snake


Title:
CORN [food] - Corn-producing areas of the world


Title:
CORONADO, FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE - Coronado's expedition 1540-1542


Title:
CORTES, HERNANDO - Cortes' expeditions 1519-1535


Title:
COSTA RICA - Costa Rica flag and coat of arms


Title:
COTTON - Cotton-producing areas of the world


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Bluegrass


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Cowboy music


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Honky-tonk


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Nashville sound


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Rockabilly


Title:
COUNTRY MUSIC - Country music: Western swing


Title:
Court of International Trade, United States


Title:
Court of Military Appeals, United States


Title:
COWBOY - Cowboy on horseback by Charles Russell


Title:
CRICKET [game] - Cricket batting strokes


Title:
CRICKET [game] - Cricket field and equipment


Title:
CRICKET [game] - Cricket fielding positions


Title:
CRICKET [game] - Ways to be out in cricket


Title:
CRICKET [insect] - How a cricket "sings"


Title:
CROWFOOT [Canadian Indian chief] - Crowfoot


Title:
CUBISM - Man with a Guitar by Georges Braque


Title:
CURIE, MARIE SKLODOWSKA - Pierre and Marie Curie


Title:
CURLY-COATED RETRIEVER - Curly-coated retriever


Title:
CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG - George A. Custer


Title:
CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech traditional band music


Title:
CZECH REPUBLIC - Kde domov muj? (Where Is My Home?)


Title:
D - Special ways of expressing the letter D


Title:
DA GAMA, VASCO - Da Gama's voyage to India, 1497-1498


Title:
DACHAU - Bodies at Dachau concentration camp


Title:
DALLAS - Dallas: City and points of interest


Title:
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)


Title:
Davis, Jefferson - Jefferson Davis timeline


Title:
DEAFNESS - Telecommunications device called a TDD


Title:
DEAFNESS - Testing for hearing disorders


Title:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - The original Declaration of Independence


Title:
Deep into the Past: Deep-Water Archaeology


Title:
DEFENSE, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Defense seal


Title:
DEFENSE, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of defense flag


Title:
DEGAS, EDGAR - The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas


Title:
DELAWARE - Average January temperatures in Delaware


Title:
DELAWARE - Average July temperatures in Delaware


Title:
DELAWARE - Average yearly precipitation in Delaware


Title:
DELAWARE - Delaware bird, flower, and tree


Title:
DELLA ROBBIA, LUCA - Madonna and Child Jesus by Luca della Robbia


Title:
DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON, LES - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso


Title:
DENVER - Denver: City and points of interest


Title:
Detective story - Detective story timeline


Title:
DETROIT - Detroit: City and points of interest


Title:
DENMARK - Danish traditional national song


Title:
DENMARK - Der er et yndigt land (There Is a Lovely Land)


Title:
DENMARK - King Christian Stood by Lofty Mast


Title:
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES - Diana, Princess of Wales


Title:
Dickens, Charles - Charles Dickens timeline


Title:
DICKINSON, EMILY - Dickinson's A Narrow Fellow in the Grass


Title:
DIEFENBAKER, JOHN GEORGE - John G. Diefenbaker


Title:
Digestive Aids--Soothing the Beast in the Belly


Title:
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM - Digestive system MultiViews


Title:
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM - Gallbladder and ducts


Title:
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM - Parts of the digestive system


Title:
Digital Cameras Gain in Popularity and Utility


Title:
Digital Video Discs Usher in a Sight and Sound Revolution


Title:
DINOSAUR - Dinosaur museum/Drumheller Royal Tyrrell Museum


Title:
DINOSAUR - Dinosaur museum/Fernbank Museum of Natural History


Title:
DINOSAUR - Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period


Title:
DINOSAUR - Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period


Title:
DINOSAUR - Interesting facts about dinosaurs


Title:
DINOSAUR - Museum display of a dinosaur skeleton


Title:
DINOSAUR - Scientists carefully study fossils in laboratory


Title:
DIVING, UNDERWATER - Surface-supplied diving equipment


Title:
DJIBOUTI [country] - Camel herding in Djibouti


Title:
DOLE, ELIZABETH HANFORD - Elizabeth Dole


Title:
DONNE, JOHN - Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning


Title:
DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD - Stephen A. Douglas


Title:
DOLPHIN [sea mammal] - Body of a common dolphin


Title:
DOLPHIN [sea mammal] - Bottle-nosed dolphin


Title:
DOLPHIN [sea mammal] - Mother and baby dolphin


Title:
DOLPHIN [sea mammal] - Some kinds of dolphins


Title:
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Republic flag


Title:
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK - Frederick Douglass


Title:
Dr. Spock Talks about Raising Children Today


Title:
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS - Drake's around the world voyage, 1577-1580


Title:
Drug - Drug milestones of the 1900's timeline


Title:
DRUG - How the receptor theory explains drug action


Title:
Drugs, Guns, and Money: The Conflict in Colombia


Title:
DRUM [musical instrument] - Kettledrum (also called timpani)


Title:
DUCHAMP, MARCEL - Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2


Title:
DUTCH ELM DISEASE - European bark beetle


Title:
DVORAK, ANTONIN - Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)


Title:
E - Special ways of expressing the letter E


Title:
EAR - How sounds travel to the inner ear


Title:
EAR - How the ear changes sounds into nerve impulses


Title:
EARHART, AMELIA - Earhart's attempt to fly around the world


Title:
EARTH [planet] - Cretaceous Period - geologic history


Title:
EARTH [planet] - Jurassic Period - geologic history


Title:
EARTH [planet] - Mississippian Period - geologic history


Title:
EARTH [planet] - Paleocene Epoch - geologic history


Title:
EARTH [planet] - Pleistocene glaciers cut valleys


Title:
EASTER ISLAND - Stone statues on Easter Island


Title:
EASTERN CAPE - Eastern Cape, South Africa


Title:
ECUADOR - Salve, O Patria (Hail, O Fatherland)


Title:
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA - Edison's first incandescent electric light


Title:
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA - Edison's phonograph


Title:
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA - Printing telegraph for stockbrokers


Title:
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA - Thomas Alva Edison


Title:
Edison, Thomas Alva - Thomas Edison timeline


Title:
EDUCATION - Continuing education programs


Title:
EDUCATION - Hearing-impaired child with teacher


Title:
EDUCATION - University of Paris in Middle Ages


Title:
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Education seal


Title:
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of education flag


Title:
EGYPT - Average January temperature in Egypt


Title:
EGYPT - Average July temperature in Egypt


Title:
EGYPT - Average yearly precipitation in Egypt


Title:
EGYPT - Beladi, Beladi (My Country, My Country)


Title:
EGYPT, ANCIENT - Ancient Egypt: Three periods


Title:
EGYPT, ANCIENT - Importance of the Nile River to ancient Egypt


Title:
EGYPT, ANCIENT - Typical country estate in ancient Egypt


Title:
Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein timeline


Title:
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID - Dwight David Eisenhower


Title:
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID - Dwight Eisenhower


Title:
Eisenhower, Dwight David - Dwight Eisenhower timeline


Title:
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID - Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie


Title:
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID - Eisenhower on censorship


Title:
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID - Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev


Title:
EISENHOWER, MAMIE DOUD - Mamie Eisenhower


Title:
EL NINO - El Nino: climate without effect


Title:
EL SALVADOR - El Salvador flag and coat of arms


Title:
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site


Title:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE - Electoral College 2000


Title:
ELECTRIC CAR - How an electric car works


Title:
ELECTRIC MOTOR - Alternating current (AC) motor


Title:
ELECTRIC MOTOR - Direct current (DC) motor


Title:
ELECTRIC POWER - Electric power distribution system


Title:
ELECTRIC POWER - Hydroelectric power plant


Title:
ELECTRIC POWER - Steam electric power plants


Title:
Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of (IBEW)


Title:
ELECTRICITY - Electric current in metals


Title:
ELECTRONICS - Inventors of the transistor


Title:
ELECTRONICS - Parts of an electronic system


Title:
ELECTRONICS - Personal digital assistant


Title:
ELEMENT, CHEMICAL - Particle accelerator


Title:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)


Title:
ELEPHANT - Elephants touch trunks as a greeting


Title:
ELEPHANT - How African and Indian elephants differ


Title:
ELEPHANT - Internal anatomy of a female African elephant


Title:
ELGAR, SIR EDWARD WILLIAM - Dream of Gerontius by Sir William Edward Elgar


Title:
ELION, GERTRUDE BELLE - Gertrude Belle Elion


Title:
ELIOT, T. S. - T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding


Title:
ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth


Title:
ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER - Queen Mother's 100th birthday


Title:
Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order of


Title:
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Title:
ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Energy seal


Title:
ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of energy flag


Title:
EnergyGuide Labels: Help for the Appliance Shopper


Title:
Engineers, International Union of Operating


Title:
ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL - English cocker spaniel


Title:
English literature - English literature timeline


Title:
EMPHYSEMA - How emphysema affects the lungs


Title:
ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL - English springer spaniel


Title:
ENGRAVING - Renaissance engraving by Durer


Title:
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION - Government cleanup project called Superfund


Title:
EPIGRAM - Epigram by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Title:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)


Title:
EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Equatorial Guinea flag


Title:
ETHIOPIA - Tisissat Falls on the Blue Nile


Title:
ETHIOPIA - Weighing cotton in a rural market


Title:
Euler-Chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon von


Title:
EUROPE - Agriculture and fishing in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Alpine Mountain system in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Average January temperatures in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Average July temperatures in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Average yearly precipitation in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Central Uplands region of Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Mining and manufacturing in Europe


Title:
EUROPE - Northwest Mountain region of Europe


Title:
EUROPEAN UNION - European Union and Council of Europe flag


Title:
EVOLUTION - Evolution of mammals from reptiles


Title:
EXPLORATION - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"


Title:
EXPLORATION - Ancient and Medieval exploration routes


Title:
EXPLORATION - European exploration: 1400's and 1500's


Title:
EXPLORATION - Exploration of North America


Title:
EXPLORATION - Exploration of the North Pole


Title:
EXPLORATION - Exploration of the South Pole


Title:
EXPLORATION - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope


Title:
EXPLORATION - Medieval Muslim map of the world


Title:
EXPLORATION - Spanish soldiers attacked Aztec Indians


Title:
EXPLORATION - The world from space today


Title:
EXPLORATION - World known by Europeans in the 1300's


Title:
EXPLORATION - World known by Europeans in the 1500's


Title:
EYE - Disorders of the eye's outer parts


Title:
EYE - Nearsightedness and farsightedness


Title:
Eyes on the Future: An Interview with Gregory Benford


Title:
F - Special ways of expressing the letter F


Title:
FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS, SR. - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.


Title:
FALLING BODIES, LAW OF - Falling bodies: dropping


Title:
FALLING BODIES, LAW OF - Falling bodies: throwing


Title:
FALLOUT - Chernobyl radiation fallout areas


Title:
FALUN GONG - Falun Gong protesters arrested in Beijing


Title:
FAMILY [sociology] - Childless Chinese couple


Title:
FAMILY [sociology] - Extended Indian family


Title:
FAMILY [sociology] - Single-parent American family


Title:
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America


Title:
Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing (Sonnet 87)


Title:
FARM AND FARMING - Automated grain storage system


Title:
FARM AND FARMING - Tillage and planting equipment


Title:
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)


Title:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)


Title:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)


Title:
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)


Title:
Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-


Title:
FIELDS, W. C. - W. C. Fields and Mae West


Title:
FIGURE OF SPEECH - Milton's use of figure of speech


Title:
FILLMORE, ABIGAIL POWERS - Fillmore, Abigail Powers


Title:
Fillmore, Millard - Millard Fillmore timeline


Title:
FILLMORE, MILLARD - U.S. states and territories under Fillmore


Title:
FINGERPRINTING - Special fingerprint computer


Title:
FINLAND - Maamme (in Finnish) or Vart Land (in Swedish)


Title:
FINLAND - Mobile communications plant worker


Title:
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Fire department paramedics


Title:
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Firefighter ventilates a building


Title:
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Firefighters' clothing


Title:
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Some equipment carried on fire trucks


Title:
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Steam pumpers pulled by horses


Title:
FISH - Fish of coastal waters and the open ocean


Title:
FISHING - Five ways to rig a fishing line


Title:
FLAG - Canadian province and territory flags


Title:
FLAG - Flags of U.S. President and Vice President


Title:
FLAG - Today's 50-star United States flag


Title:
FLORENCE - Bronze doors of the Baptistery


Title:
FLORENCE - Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy


Title:
FLORIDA - Average January temperatures in Florida


Title:
FLORIDA - Average July temperatures in Florida


Title:
FLORIDA - Average yearly precipitation in Florida


Title:
FLORIDA - Florida bird, flower, and tree


Title:
FLORIDA - John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art


Title:
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University


Title:
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument


Title:
FLOWER - Flowers of the broadleaf forest


Title:
FISHING INDUSTRY - Commercial fishing areas of the world


Title:
FISHING INDUSTRY - Common methods of hooking and trapping


Title:
FISHING INDUSTRY - Otter trawl fishing net


Title:
FISHING INDUSTRY - Purse seine fishing net


Title:
FLOWER - Flowers of the needleleaf forest


Title:
FLOWER - Flowers of the prairies and dry plains


Title:
FLOWER - Flowers of the tropics and subtropics


Title:
FLOWER - Garden perennials: flowering shrubs


Title:
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY - Folger Shakespeare Library's theater


Title:
FONTEYN, MARGOT - Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev


Title:
Food Allergies: When Common Foods Cause Uncommon Reactions


Title:
FOOD SUPPLY - Grains used in plant research


Title:
FOOTBALL - Action-packed plays in football


Title:
FORD, GERALD RUDOLPH - Ford pardons Nixon


Title:
FORD, GERALD RUDOLPH - Gerald Ford and Everett Dirksen


Title:
Ford, Gerald Rudolph - Gerald Ford timeline


Title:
FORD, GERALD RUDOLPH - President Ford's family


Title:
FORD, HENRY [Am. businessman] - Henry Ford


Title:
FORD, HENRY [Am. businessman] - Henry Ford makes an affordable automobile


Title:
FOREST - Forests of the United States and Canada


Title:
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine


Title:
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site


Title:
Fossils, Feathers, and Theories of Flight


Title:
FOX QUESADA, VICENTE - Vicente Fox Quesada


Title:
FRACTURE - Some common kinds of fractures


Title:
FRANCE - Average January temperatures in France


Title:
FRANCE - Average July temperatures in France


Title:
FRANCE - Average yearly precipitation in France


Title:
FRANCE - Monument to Balzac by Auguste Rodin


Title:
FRANCE - Villages set amid well-tended fields


Title:
Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Home of


Title:
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORI - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial


Title:
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN - Benjamin Franklin as a printer


Title:
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN - Benjamin Franklin as minister to France


Title:
Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin timeline


Title:
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site


Title:
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site


Title:
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS - French and Indian War: Battles


Title:
French literature - French literature timeline


Title:
French Southern and Antarctic Territories


Title:
FRIGATEBIRD - Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)


Title:
FROG - In water, a frog uses its strong hind legs to swim


Title:
FROG - Internal organs of a male grass frog


Title:
From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase (Sonnet 1)


Title:
FRUIT - How horticulturists classify fruit


Title:
FULLER, BUCKMINSTER - Buckminster Fuller


Title:
FURNITURE - Ancient Greek chair called a klismos


Title:
FURNITURE - Classics of modern furniture design


Title:
FURNITURE - Roman stool called a sella curulis


Title:
FUSELI, HENRY - The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli


Title:
G [letter] - Development of the letter G


Title:
G [letter] - Special ways of expressing the letter G


Title:
GADSDEN PURCHASE - Gadsden Purchase territory


Title:
GAGARIN, YURI ALEKSEYEVICH - Yuri Gagarin


Title:
GALILEO [space probe] - Galileo space probe


Title:
GANDHI, MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND - Mahatma Gandhi


Title:
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand - Mohandas K. Gandhi timeline


Title:
GANYMEDE [satellite] - Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter


Title:
GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM - James A. Garfield


Title:
Garfield, James Abram - James Garfield timeline


Title:
GARFIELD, LUCRETIA RUDOLPH - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield


Title:
GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD - William Lloyd Garrison


Title:
GAS [fuel] - Natural gas regions of the Eastern Hemisphere


Title:
GAS [fuel] - Natural gas regions of the Western Hemisphere


Title:
GASOLINE ENGINE - How a four-stroke cycle gasoline engine works


Title:
GASOLINE ENGINE - How a two-stroke cycle gasoline engine works


Title:
GEHRY, FRANK - Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain


Title:
GEIGER COUNTER - Geiger counter detector signal


Title:
GEIGER COUNTER - How a Geiger counter works


Title:
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)


Title:
Geographic Names, United States Board on


Title:
GEORGE VI - King George VI and his family


Title:
George Washington Birthplace National Monument


Title:
George Washington Carver National Monument


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Average January temperatures in Georgia


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Average July temperatures in Georgia


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Average yearly precipitation in Georgia


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Beef cattle graze in northern Georgia


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Georgia (United States)


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Georgia bird, flower, and tree


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Georgia flag and seal


Title:
GEORGIA [state, U.S.] - Savannah, Georgia


Title:
German literature - German literature timeline


Title:
GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG - German shepherd dog


Title:
GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER - German shorthaired pointer


Title:
GERMAN WIREHAIRED POINTER - German wirehaired pointer


Title:
GERMANY - Average January temperatures in Germany


Title:
GERMANY - Average July temperatures in Germany


Title:
GERMANY - Average yearly precipitation in Germany


Title:
GERMANY - Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany


Title:
GERMANY - Unification of East and West Germany


Title:
Getting the Most Out of Your Health Plan


Title:
GINSBURG, RUTH BADER - Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Title:
GIOTTO - Giotto's Madonna and Child Enthroned


Title:
GISH, DOROTHY - Lillian and Dorothy Gish


Title:
GLACIER - Land forms created by a glacier


Title:
GLACIER - Sectional view of a valley glacier


Title:
GLAND - Some major glands of the human body


Title:
GLASS - Blowing glass without the use of molds


Title:
GLENN, JOHN HERSCHEL, JR. - Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr.


Title:
GLENN, JOHN HERSCHEL, JR. - John Glenn on space shuttle Discovery


Title:
Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. - John Glenn timeline


Title:
GLINKA, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH - Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture


Title:
GLUCK, CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD - Gluck: Iphigenie in Aulis


Title:
GODDARD, ROBERT HUTCHINGS - Robert H. Goddard


Title:
GOLD - Gold film in an astronaut's visor


Title:
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE - San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge


Title:
Golf Ball Technology Slices into a Mystery of the


Title:
Good Templars, International Organization of


Title:
GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH - Mikhail Gorbachev


Title:
GRANADA [city, Spain] - Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain


Title:
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - Grand Canyon National Park


Title:
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK - Grand Teton National Park


Title:
GRANT, ULYSSES S. - Grant as a Civil War general


Title:
GRANT, ULYSSES S. - U.S. states and territories under Grant


Title:
Grant, Ulysses S. - Ulysses S. Grant timeline


Title:
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site


Title:
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Graphical user interface


Title:
GREAT BARRIER REEF - Map of Great Barrier Reef


Title:
GREAT DEPRESSION - Apple peddlers during the Great Depression


Title:
GREAT WALL OF CHINA - Great Wall of China


Title:
GREECE - Average January temperature in Greece


Title:
GREECE - Average July temperature in Greece


Title:
GREECE - Average yearly precipitation in Greece


Title:
GREECE - Expansion of Greece: 1832 to 1947


Title:
Greece, Ancient - Ancient Greece timeline


Title:
GREECE, ANCIENT - Greece is conquered by Rome


Title:
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America


Title:
GRIEG, EDVARD - Morning (from the Peer Gynt Suite)


Title:
GRIEG, EDVARD - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen


Title:
GRIFFITH JOYNER, FLORENCE - Florence Griffith Joyner


Title:
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von


Title:
GROUND SLOTH - Ground sloth fossil skeleton


Title:
GROUP OF SEVEN - The Elements by J. E. H. MacDonald


Title:
GUATEMALA - Guatemala flag and coat of arms


Title:
GUIDED MISSILE - Beam-riding guidance system


Title:
GUIDED MISSILE - Command guidance system


Title:
GUIDED MISSILE - Parts of a rocket-powered missile


Title:
GUINNESS, ALEC - Alec Guinness in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"


Title:
GUPTA DYNASTY - Gupta art in India c. 500, Vishnu


Title:
H - Special ways of expressing the letter H


Title:
HALIFAX - Halifax historic waterfront area


Title:
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER - Alexander Hamilton


Title:
Hamilton, Alexander - Alexander Hamilton timeline


Title:
HAMMURABI - Hammurabi, king of Babylonia


Title:
HANCOCK, JOHN - Signature of John Hancock


Title:
HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC - George Frideric Handel


Title:
HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC - Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus


Title:
HANDGUN - How an automatic handgun works


Title:
Handwashing: The First Line of Defense Against Disease


Title:
HANSBERRY, LORRAINE - Lorraine Hansberry


Title:
HARDING, FLORENCE KLING - Florence Harding


Title:
HARDING, WARREN GAMALIEL - Warren G. Harding


Title:
Harding, Warren Gamaliel - Warren G. Harding timeline


Title:
HARRISON, ANNA SYMMES - Anna Symmes Harrison


Title:
Harrison, Benjamin - Benjamin Harrison timeline


Title:
HARRISON, BENJAMIN [U.S. Pres.] - Benjamin Harrison


Title:
HARRISON, BENJAMIN [U.S. Pres.] - U.S. states and territories under Harrison


Title:
HARRISON, CAROLINE SCOTT - Caroline Scott Harrison


Title:
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY - William Henry Harrison


Title:
Harrison, William Henry - William Henry Harrison timeline


Title:
HAWAII - Average yearly precipitation in Hawaii


Title:
HAWAII - Buddhist temple in Honolulu, Hawaii


Title:
HAWAII - U.S.S. Bowfin: Captain's quarters


Title:
HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER - Hawaiian honeycreeper


Title:
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL - Nathaniel Hawthorne


Title:
HAYDN, JOSEPH - Symphony No. 104 in D major: "London"


Title:
HAYDN, JOSEPH - Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"


Title:
HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD - Rutherford B. Hayes


Title:
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard - Rutherford B. Hayes timeline


Title:
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPAR - Department of Health and Human Services seal


Title:
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPAR - U.S. secretary of health and human services flag


Title:
Health and Human Services, Department of


Title:
HEARING AID - Main parts of a hearing aid


Title:
HEAT - How heat is changed into electric power


Title:
HELICOPTER - Helicopters in the military


Title:
HENSON, MATTHEW ALEXANDER - Matthew A. Henson


Title:
HEREDITY - Mendel's experiments on heredity


Title:
HERSCHEL, SIR WILLIAM - Sir William Herschel's reflecting telescope


Title:
HITLER, ADOLF - Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg


Title:
HITLER, ADOLF - Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party


Title:
Hockey - NHL Stanley Cup winners timeline


Title:
HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park


Title:
HISPANIC AMERICANS - African influences in Latin music


Title:
HISPANIC AMERICANS - Indian influences in foods


Title:
HISPANIC AMERICANS - Where Hispanic Americans live


Title:
HOLOCAUST - Jews being forced from their homes


Title:
Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States


Title:
HOLST, GUSTAV - The Planets by Gustav Holst


Title:
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - Holy Roman Empire in 1250


Title:
HOMO HABILIS - Homo habilis or homo rudolfensis


Title:
HONDURAS - Bananas, Honduras' chief product


Title:
HONDURAS - Honduras flag and coat of arms


Title:
HONG KONG - Open air marketplace in Hong Kong


Title:
Hong Kong 1997: Capitalism Comes to China


Title:
HOOVER, HERBERT CLARK - Herbert Clark Hoover


Title:
Hoover, Herbert Clark - Herbert Hoover timeline


Title:
HORSE - Daily grooming of a horse's coat and mane


Title:
HORSE - English and Western riding equipment


Title:
HORSETAIL - Shoots of the horsetail plant


Title:
Hot and Cold: Staying Healthy in All Weather


Title:
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union


Title:
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, D - Department of Housing and Urban Development seal


Title:
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, D - Secretary of housing and urban development flag


Title:
Housing and Urban Development, Department of (HUD)


Title:
HOUSTON - Houston: City and points of interest


Title:
How Does an Organism Develop from a Single Cell?


Title:
How to Wipe Out Bathroom and Kitchen Germs


Title:
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site


Title:
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Hubble space telescope


Title:
HUMAN BODY - Exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen


Title:
HUMAN BODY - Human body: digestive system


Title:
HUMAN BODY - Human body: respiratory and circulatory systems


Title:
HUMAN BODY - Human body: skeletal and muscular systems


Title:
HUMAN BODY - Human body: urinary and endocrine systems


Title:
HUNGARY - Isten aldd meg a magyart (God Bless the Hungarians


Title:
HYDROPONICS - Growing plants by hydroponics


Title:
I - Special ways of expressing the letter I


Title:
IBN SAUD - King Ibn Saud with President Roosevelt


Title:
ICELAND - O Guo vors lands (O God of Our Land)


Title:
IDAHO - Average January temperatures in Idaho


Title:
IDAHO - Average July temperatures in Idaho


Title:
IDAHO - Average yearly precipitation in Idaho


Title:
IDAHO - Shoshone Falls on the Snake River


Title:
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory


Title:
Iditarod: Celebrating the Dog Days of Winter


Title:
IGNITION - How a direct-fire automobile ignition system works


Title:
ILLINOIS - Average January temperatures in Illinois


Title:
ILLINOIS - Average July temperatures in Illinois


Title:
ILLINOIS - Average yearly precipitation in Illinois


Title:
ILLINOIS - Illinois bird, flower, and tree


Title:
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - Historiated initial


Title:
IMMIGRATION - European immigrants arrive at Ellis Island


Title:
Immigration - Major immigration movements to the U.S. timeline


Title:
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)


Title:
IMMUNE SYSTEM - Cell-mediated immune response


Title:
IMMUNE SYSTEM - How your immune system fights influenza


Title:
IMMUNE SYSTEM - Immune system MultiViews


Title:
IMPRESSIONISM - The Swing by Pierre Renoir


Title:
INDIA - 1950 broadcast on India becoming a republic


Title:
INDIA - Average January temperatures in India


Title:
INDIA - Average July temperatures in India


Title:
INDIA - Average yearly precipitation in India


Title:
INDIA - Colorful statues of Hindu divinities


Title:
INDIA - Fertile cropland in southern India


Title:
INDIAN RESERVATION - Indian reservations


Title:
INDIAN RESERVATION - Indian reservations in the United States


Title:
INDIAN TERRITORY - Indian Territory in 1906


Title:
INDIAN WARS - Indian wars in the United States


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - American Indian cultural areas


Title:
Indian, American - American Indian timeline


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Art of Indians of Middle America


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Brazilian Indians protest anniversary celebrations


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Crafts of the Caribbean Indians


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Crafts of the Indians of the Andes


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Crafts of the Plains Indians


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Crafts of the Tropical Forest Indians


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Hernando Cortes and Aztec leaders


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - How Indians obtained food


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Andes cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Arctic cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): California cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Caribbean cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Great Basin cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Middle American cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Northeast cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Northwest coast cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Plains cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Plateau cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): South American Marginal Regions


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Southeast cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Southwest cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Subarctic cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Indians (American): Tropical forest cultural area


Title:
INDIAN, AMERICAN - Tall fences (palisades)


Title:
INDIANA - Average January temperatures in Indiana


Title:
INDIANA - Average July temperatures in Indiana


Title:
INDIANA - Average yearly precipitation in Indiana


Title:
INDIANA - Indiana bird, flower, and tree


Title:
INDIANA - Oil refineries near Hammond, Indiana


Title:
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis flag and seal


Title:
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis: City and points of interest


Title:
INDONESIA - Indonesia Raya (Great Indonesia)


Title:
INDONESIA - Muslim women on Java, Indonesia


Title:
INDONESIA - Population density in Indonesia


Title:
INDONESIA - Television viewing in Indonesia


Title:
INDONESIA - Traditional Indonesian houses


Title:
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION - Indus Valley civilization


Title:
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION - Ruins of the Indus Valley civilization


Title:
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - Factories during the Industrial Revolution


Title:
INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS - Input-output table


Title:
INSECT - Three patterns of insect growth


Title:
INTERIOR DESIGN - Access for the disabled


Title:
INTERIOR DESIGN - Effective interior design


Title:
INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE - Department of the Interior seal


Title:
INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE - U.S. secretary of the interior flag


Title:
International Air Transport Association (IATA)


Title:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)


Title:
International Bureau of Weights and Measures


Title:
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)


Title:
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)


Title:
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)


Title:
International Council for Bird Preservation


Title:
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)


Title:
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE - International Date Line


Title:
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)


Title:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War


Title:
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Assembling the International Space Station


Title:
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - International Space Station


Title:
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - International Space Station: A control room


Title:
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - International Space Station: Living quarters


Title:
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Two modules of the International Space Station


Title:
International Trade Commission, United States


Title:
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources


Title:
IOWA - Average January temperatures in Iowa


Title:
IOWA - Average July temperatures in Iowa


Title:
IOWA - Average yearly precipitation in Iowa


Title:
Iowa State University of Science and Technology


Title:
IRAN - Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran


Title:
IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR - Oliver North testifies before Congress


Title:
IRAQ - Al-Salam Al-Jumhuri (Salute to the Republic)


Title:
IRELAND - Average January temperature in Ireland


Title:
IRELAND - Average July temperature in Ireland


Title:
IRELAND - Average yearly precipitation in Ireland


Title:
IRISH WATER SPANIEL - Irish water spaniel


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - How a blast furnace operates


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - How steel is shaped and finished


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - Iron and steel regions of the Eastern Hemisphere


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - Iron and steel regions of the Western Hemisphere


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - Making steel by the basic oxygen process


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - Making steel by the electric furnace process


Title:
IRON AND STEEL - Making steel by the open-hearth process


Title:
Is Melatonin a "Miracle Cure" for Insomnia?


Title:
ISLAM - Muslim pilgrims pray at the Kaaba


Title:
ISRAEL - Olive groves in the Rift Valley, Israel


Title:
ISRAEL - Peace agreement between Israel and Jordan


Title:
ITALY - Average January temperatures in Italy


Title:
ITALY - Average July temperatures in Italy


Title:
ITALY - Average yearly precipitation in Italy


Title:
ITALY - Low-rise, concrete apartment buildings


Title:
IWO JIMA - World War II: Iwo Jima Memorial


Title:
IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA - Izaak Walton League of America volunteers


Title:
J - Special ways of expressing the letter J


Title:
Jackson, Andrew - Andrew Jackson timeline


Title:
JACKSON, ANDREW - U.S. states and territories under Jackson


Title:
James A. Garfield National Historic Site


Title:
JAPAN - Average August temperatures in Japan


Title:
JAPAN - Average January temperatures in Japan


Title:
JAPAN - Average yearly precipitation in Japan


Title:
JAPAN - Japanese empire: Expansions until 1919


Title:
JACKSONVILLE - City seal of Jacksonville


Title:
JACKSONVILLE - Jacksonville: City and points of interest


Title:
JEFFERSON, BLIND LEMON - Blind Lemon Jefferson


Title:
JEFFERSON, THOMAS - Jefferson was secretary of state


Title:
Jefferson, Thomas - Thomas Jefferson timeline


Title:
JEFFERSON, THOMAS - U.S. states and territories under Jefferson


Title:
JERUSALEM - Housing developments in Jerusalem


Title:
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem: Old City street scene


Title:
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher


Title:
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem: Via Dolorosa street scene


Title:
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE - Jerusalem artichoke


Title:
JESUS CHRIST - Jesus and John the Baptist


Title:
JESUS CHRIST - Jesus carrying His cross toward Calvary


Title:
JESUS CHRIST - Jesus Christ: Map of life events


Title:
JINRIKISHA - Jinrikishas in Dhaka, Bangladesh


Title:
JOHNSON, ELIZA MCCARDLE - Eliza Johnson and Martha Johnson Patterson


Title:
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES - Johnson on Kennedy's death


Title:
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES - Johnson's "Great Society"


Title:
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES - Lyndon Baines Johnson


Title:
Johnson, Lyndon Baines - Lyndon Johnson timeline


Title:
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES - President Johnson takes the oath of office


Title:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site


Title:
Johnson, Andrew - Andrew Johnson timeline


Title:
JOHNSON, ANDREW - Impeachment trial of President Johnson


Title:
JOHNSON, ANDREW - U.S. states and territories under Johnson


Title:
Judicial Conference of the United States


Title:
JUPITER [planet] - Dense clouds around Jupiter


Title:
JUPITER [planet] - Jupiter acts like a giant magnet


Title:
JUPITER [planet] - Scars from the crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9


Title:
JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Justice seal


Title:
JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. Attorney General flag


Title:
K - Special ways of expressing the letter K


Title:
KANSAS - Average January temperatures in Kansas


Title:
KANSAS - Average July temperatures in Kansas


Title:
KANSAS - Average yearly precipitation in Kansas


Title:
KANSAS CITY [Missouri] - Kansas City: City and points of interest


Title:
KENNEDY, ANTHONY MCLEOD - Anthony M. Kennedy


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - John F. Kennedy Memorial


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Title:
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald - John Kennedy timeline


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - Kennedy in Berlin


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - Kennedy on going to the moon


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - Moments before being shot


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - President Kennedy's family


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD - Senator Kennedy with his brother Robert


Title:
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD, JR. - John F. Kennedy, Jr.


Title:
KENNEDY, ROBERT FRANCIS - Robert F. Kennedy


Title:
KENSINGTON RUNE STONE - Kensington rune stone


Title:
KENTUCKY - Arts and crafts fair in Berea


Title:
KENTUCKY - Average January temperatures in Kentucky


Title:
KENTUCKY - Average July temperatures in Kentucky


Title:
KENTUCKY - Average yearly precipitation in Kentucky


Title:
KENTUCKY - Kentucky bird, flower, and tree


Title:
KENYA - Wimbo Wa Taifa (National Anthem)


Title:
KHOMEINI, RUHOLLAH - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini


Title:
KHRUSHCHEV, NIKITA SERGEYEVICH - Nikita S. Khrushchev


Title:
KING, CORETTA SCOTT - Coretta Scott King


Title:
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. - Martin Luther King and the March on Washington


Title:
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Martin Luther King, Jr. timeline


Title:
KING, WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE - W. L. Mackenzie King


Title:
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site


Title:
KNIGHTS AND KNIGHTHOOD - Armor display at Philadelphia Museum of Art


Title:
KNIGHTS AND KNIGHTHOOD - Knights in a tournament


Title:
KNOTS, HITCHES, AND SPLICES - Some knots, hitches, and splices


Title:
KOREA - North Korea flag and coat of arms


Title:
KOREA - South Korea flag and coat of arms


Title:
KOREAN WAR - Korean War: Chinese offensive


Title:
KOREAN WAR - Korean War: North Korean invasion


Title:
KOREAN WAR - Korean War: UN advance and armistice


Title:
KOREAN WAR - Korean War: UN forces move south


Title:
KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL - Korean War Veterans Memorial


Title:
KOSOVO - Ethnic Albanian neighborhood destroyed


Title:
KRAMER, STANLEY - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner


Title:
KUBLAI KHAN - Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire


Title:
KUWAIT [country] - Kuwaiti contemporary music


Title:
KWAZULU-NATAL - KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Title:
L - Special ways of expressing the letter L


Title:
LA FOLLETTE - Robert M. La Follette, Sr.


Title:
LA SALLE, SIEUR DE - La Salle's explorations


Title:
LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Labor seal


Title:
LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of labor flag


Title:
Laborers' International Union of North America


Title:
LAKE [geography] - Volcanic lake in Costa Rica


Title:
LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN - Painting by Sir Edwin Landseer


Title:
LANGE, DOROTHEA - Photograph by Dorothea Lange


Title:
LANGUAGE - Indo-European language family


Title:
LANGUAGE - Language regions of the Eastern Hemisphere


Title:
LANGUAGE - Language regions of the Western Hemisphere


Title:
LAOS - Buddhist festival in Vientiane, Laos


Title:
LAS VEGAS - Modern bungalows in Las Vegas


Title:
Lasers Focus on Correcting Nearsightedness


Title:
LATIN AMERICA - Handicrafts in Latin America


Title:
LAURIER, SIR WILFRID - Sir Wilfrid Laurier


Title:
Laval de Montmorency, Francois Xavier de


Title:
LAWRENCE, JAMES - Oliver Perry's flag in 1813


Title:
LE NOTRE, ANDRE - Gardens at the Palace of Versailles


Title:
League of United Latin American Citizens


Title:
LEANING TOWER OF PISA - Leaning Tower of Pisa


Title:
Latin literature - Latin literature timeline


Title:
Latin-American literature - Latin-American literature timeline


Title:
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD - Lee on his famous horse, Traveller


Title:
Lee, Robert Edward - Robert E. Lee timeline


Title:
LEMMON, JACK - Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau


Title:
Lessening the Hazards of Home Pesticides


Title:
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)


Title:
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION - Lewis and Clark expedition


Title:
LEWIS, JERRY - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis


Title:
Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci timeline


Title:
LEONARDO DA VINCI - Self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci


Title:
LEONARDO DA VINCI - The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne


Title:
LEONARDO DA VINCI - Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci


Title:
LEONCAVALLO, RUGGIERO - Ruggiero Leoncavallo


Title:
LIBERIA - Workers tap rubber trees in Liberia


Title:
LIBERTY BELL - Philadelphia: Liberty Bell


Title:
LIBRARY - Using computers in a public library


Title:
LIEBERMAN, JOSEPH ISADORE - Joseph Lieberman


Title:
LIFE - Structural units of higher organisms


Title:
Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore (Sonnet 60)


Title:
LIMA [Peru] - Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru


Title:
LIMERICK [poetry] - Limerick by Edward Lear


Title:
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMIN - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts


Title:
Lincoln, Abraham - Abraham Lincoln timeline


Title:
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM - Late portrait of Abraham Lincoln


Title:
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM - President's box at Ford's Theatre


Title:
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM - U.S. states and territories under Lincoln


Title:
LINDBERGH, CHARLES AUGUSTUS - Charles Lindbergh


Title:
LION [wild cat] - Lion's large sharp teeth and huge paws


Title:
Literature for children - Children's literature timeline


Title:
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - Illustrators like Randolph Caldecott


Title:
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - Mother Goose fairy tales


Title:
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - Tale of Peter Rabbit


Title:
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - The New England Primer


Title:
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Title:
LITHOGRAPHY - Lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec


Title:
LITHUANIA - Lithuania flag and coat of arms


Title:
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument


Title:
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site


Title:
LOBSTER - Underside of a female American lobster


Title:
LOCK [key, combination, etc.] - Card access system


Title:
LOCK [key, combination, etc.] - Key-in-knob lock


Title:
LOCK [key, combination, etc.] - Mortise lock


Title:
LOCK [key, combination, etc.] - Pin-tumbler lock


Title:
LOCK [key, combination, etc.] - Rim lock


Title:
LONDON [England] - Attractive town houses


Title:
LONDON [England] - Changing-of-the-guard ceremony


Title:
LONDON [England] - London: Piccadilly Circus


Title:
LONDON [England] - London: St. James's Park


Title:
LONDON [England] - London: St. Paul's Cathedral


Title:
LONDON [England] - London: Trafalgar Square


Title:
LONDON [England] - London's subway system


Title:
LONDON [England] - Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens


Title:
LONDON [England] - Run-down apartment buildings


Title:
LONDON [England] - Trafalgar Square in central London


Title:
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH - Longfellow in 1839


Title:
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH - Longfellow in 1869


Title:
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH - Longfellow's A Cross of Snow


Title:
LOUISIANA - Average January temperatures in Louisiana


Title:
LOUISIANA - Average July temperatures in Louisiana


Title:
LOUISIANA - Average yearly precipitation in Louisiana


Title:
LOUISIANA - Louisiana bird, flower, and tree


Title:
LOUISIANA - Oyster boats at Violet, Louisiana


Title:
LOUISIANA PURCHASE - Louisiana Purchase area today


Title:
LUMBER - Patterns for sawing large and small logs


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Downtown Los Angeles


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Earthquake damage to freeway


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Greater Los Angeles


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Hollywood Boulevard


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - La Brea tar pits


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Los Angeles flag and seal


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Los Angeles: City and points of interest


Title:
LOS ANGELES [California] - Port of Los Angeles, California


Title:
LOST COLONY - Main clue to the Lost Colony


Title:
LUXEMBOURG [country] - Luxembourg symbols


Title:
LUXEMBOURG [country] - Ons Hemecht (Our Homeland)


Title:
MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER - Sir John A. Macdonald


Title:
MACDOWELL, EDWARD ALEXANDER - To a Wild Rose


Title:
MACEDONIA [historical region] - Macedonia (historic region)


Title:
MACHINE TOOL - Electrical discharge machining


Title:
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, International Association of


Title:
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER - Alexander Mackenzie


Title:
MADAGASCAR - Ry Tanindrazanay Malala O (Our Beloved Country)


Title:
MADEIRA ISLANDS - Harbor of Funchal, Madeira


Title:
MADISON, JAMES - U.S. states and territories under Madison


Title:
MAGELLAN, FERDINAND - Ferdinand Magellan


Title:
MAGELLAN, FERDINAND - Magellan's voyage: 1519-1522


Title:
MAGELLAN, STRAIT OF - Strait of Magellan


Title:
M - Special ways of expressing the letter M


Title:
MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, GLORIA - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo


Title:
MAINE [state] - Average January temperatures in Maine


Title:
MAINE [state] - Average July temperatures in Maine


Title:
MAINE [state] - Average yearly precipitation in Maine


Title:
MAINE [state] - Maine bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MALAYSIA - Average yearly precipitation in Malaysia


Title:
MALAYSIA - People of various ethnic groups


Title:
MALAYSIA - Population density in Malaysia


Title:
MAMMAL - How the skeleton is adapted for movement


Title:
MAMMAL - Some major characteristics of mammals


Title:
MANET, EDOUARD - Bar at the Folies Bergere by Manet


Title:
MANITOBA - Average January temperatures in Manitoba


Title:
MANITOBA - Average July temperatures in Manitoba


Title:
MANITOBA - Average yearly precipitation in Manitoba


Title:
MANITOBA - Manitoba flag and coat of arms


Title:
MANITOBA - Manitoba seal and floral emblem


Title:
MANITOBA - Threshermen's Reunion and Stampede


Title:
MAORI - Maori woman in traditional dress


Title:
Marian Anderson: A Voice Heard Once in 100 Years


Title:
MARINE BIOLOGY - Marine biologists study a lobster


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Marine enlisted personnel


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Grade insignia for Marine officers


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Marine aviator uniform


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Marine blue dress uniform


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Marine combat uniform


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - Marine women's service uniform


Title:
MARINE CORPS, UNITED STATES - U.S. Marine Corps flag


Title:
Marine Corps, United States - U.S. Marine Corps timeline


Title:
MARQUETTE, JACQUES - Marquette's explorations


Title:
MARS [planet] - Mars elevation map - East


Title:
MARS [planet] - Mars elevation map - West


Title:
MARS [Roman mythology] - Martian channels


Title:
MARSHALL ISLANDS - Marshall Islands flag


Title:
MARSUPIAL - Stages of marsupial development


Title:
Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site


Title:
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site


Title:
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS - Mary, Queen of Scots


Title:
MARYLAND - Average January temperatures in Maryland


Title:
MARYLAND - Average July temperatures in Maryland


Title:
MARYLAND - Average yearly precipitation in Maryland


Title:
MARYLAND - Maryland bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MARYLAND - Ships dock in Baltimore harbor


Title:
MARYLAND - Tilghman Island in Chesapeake Bay


Title:
MASK - Many masks have grotesque features


Title:
MASSACHUSETTS - Average January temperatures in Massachusetts


Title:
MASSACHUSETTS - Average July temperatures in Massachusetts


Title:
MASSACHUSETTS - Average yearly precipitation in Massachusetts


Title:
MASSACHUSETTS - Massachusetts bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MASSACHUSETTS - Massachusetts flag and seal


Title:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


Title:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.


Title:
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science


Title:
MBEKI, THABO - Thabo Mbeki's inauguration


Title:
MCCAIN, JOHN SIDNEY, III - John S. McCain III


Title:
McKinley, William - William McKinley timeline


Title:
MCLACHLIN, BEVERLEY MARIAN - Beverley McLachlin


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - European medals and decorations


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - Medal of Honor


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - Orders of Canada and Mexico


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - U.S. civilian medals and decorations


Title:
MEDALS, DECORATIONS, AND ORDERS - U.S. military medals and decorations


Title:
MEDICINE - Edward Jenner vaccinates a child


Title:
MEDICINE - Emergency medical technicians


Title:
MEDICINE - Medical care in developing countries


Title:
MEDICINE - Medicine protects public health


Title:
MEDICINE - Surgical advances by Ambroise Pare


Title:
Medicine in the  21st Century:  The Promise of Genetics


Title:
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY - Mediterranean fruit fly


Title:
MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS - Megalithic monument near Carrac, France


Title:
MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI - Megawati Sukarnoputri


Title:
MEMPHIS [Tennessee] - Memphis flag and seal


Title:
MEMPHIS [Tennessee] - Memphis, Tennessee


Title:
MEMPHIS [Tennessee] - Memphis: City and points of interest


Title:
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX - The Hebrides, or Fingal's Cave (overture)


Title:
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX - Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn


Title:
MENSTRUATION - Parts of the female reproductive system


Title:
MENTAL ILLNESS - Philippe Pinel demands humane treatment


Title:
METAMORPHOSIS - Complete metamorphosis of a house fly


Title:
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund


Title:
MEXICAN WAR - Mexican Cession to the United States


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Average January temperatures in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Average July temperatures in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Average yearly precipitation in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Central Plateau of Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Himno Nacional de Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Mexican mariachi music


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Mural by David Siqueiros


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Oil refineries in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Population density in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Religious procession in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO [country] - Tropical rain forests in Mexico


Title:
MEXICO CITY - Monument to Independence in Mexico City


Title:
Mexico, National Autonomous University of


Title:
MIAMI - Miami: City and points of interest


Title:
MICHELANGELO - The Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Michelangelo


Title:
MICHELANGELO - The Florentine Pieta by Michelangelo


Title:
MICHELANGELO - The Pieta by Michelangelo


Title:
MICHIGAN - Average January temperatures in Michigan


Title:
MICHIGAN - Average July temperatures in Michigan


Title:
MICHIGAN - Average yearly precipitation in Michigan


Title:
MICHIGAN - Michigan bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF - Federated States of Micronesia


Title:
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF - Micronesia


Title:
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF - Micronesia flag


Title:
MICROSCOPE - Parts of an optical microscope


Title:
MIDDLE EAST - Historic Middle East agreement


Title:
MIES VAN DER ROHE, LUDWIG - Apartment towers by Mies van der Rohe


Title:
MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT - Edna St. Vincent Millay


Title:
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee: City and points of interest


Title:
MINE WARFARE - Parts of an antitank mine


Title:
MINERAL - Common minerals with metallic luster


Title:
MINERAL - Common minerals with nonmetallic luster


Title:
MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis: City and points of interest


Title:
MINNESOTA - Average January temperatures in Minnesota


Title:
MINNESOTA - Average July temperatures in Minnesota


Title:
MINNESOTA - Average yearly precipitation in Minnesota


Title:
MINNESOTA - Minnesota bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MINNESOTA - Workers prepare corn on the cob


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Average January temperatures in Mississippi


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Average July temperatures in Mississippi


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Average yearly precipitation in Mississippi


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Mississippi bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Mississippi's stately old homes


Title:
MISSISSIPPI - Piney Woods in Mississippi


Title:
MISSISSIPPI RIVER - Mississippi River area


Title:
MISSISSIPPI RIVER - Mississippi River locator


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Average January temperatures in Missouri


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Average July temperatures in Missouri


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Average yearly precipitation in Missouri


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Cornfield in Missouri


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Missouri bird, floral emblem, and tree


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Missouri flag and seal


Title:
MISSOURI [state] - Ozark Plateau region of Missouri


Title:
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site


Title:
MISSION LIFE IN AMERICA - Mission San Jose


Title:
MONA LISA - Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci


Title:
MONACO - Hymne Monegasque (Hymn of Monaco)


Title:
MONET, CLAUDE - Water Lilies by Claude Monet


Title:
Moniz, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas


Title:
MONROE, ELIZABETH KORTRIGHT - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe


Title:
MONROE, JAMES - U.S. states and territories under Monroe


Title:
MONTANA - Average January temperatures in Montana


Title:
MONTANA - Average July temperatures in Montana


Title:
MONTANA - Average yearly precipitation in Montana


Title:
MONTANA - Montana bird, flower, and tree


Title:
MONTEZUMA CASTLE NATIONAL MONUME - Montezuma Castle National Monument


Title:
MONTREAL - Cite Souterrain (Underground City)


Title:
MONTREAL - Vieux-Montreal (Old Montreal)


Title:
MONTSERRAT [island, West Indies] - Montserrat


Title:
MOON - Moon photographed by Apollo 11 astronauts


Title:
MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE - Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette


Title:
MOSCOW - Moscow: City and points of interest


Title:
MOTION PICTURE - 35-millimeter projector


Title:
Motion picture - Academy Awards for best picture timeline


Title:
Motion picture - Motion picture timeline


Title:
MOTOROLA, INC. - Cellular phone with Internet access


Title:
MOTT, LUCRETIA COFFIN - Lucretia Coffin Mott


Title:
MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambican traditional music


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Cosi Fan Tutte (All Women Are Like That)


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Eine kleine Nachtmusik


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Requiem (Mass for the Dead)


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Symphony No. 40 in G minor


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Symphony No. 41 by Mozart


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - The Marriage of Figaro (aria)


Title:
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Title:
MUIR, JOHN - Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite


Title:
MUMMY - How ancient Egyptians mummified their dead


Title:
MUNCH, EDVARD - The Scream by Edvard Munch


Title:
MUSCLE - How skeletal muscles move a limb


Title:
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL - Mount Rushmore


Title:
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry


Title:
MUSSORGSKY, MODEST - Pictures at an Exhibition


Title:
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130)


Title:
MYANMAR - Burmese traditional drama music


Title:
MYTHOLOGY - Important divinities in Egyptian mythology


Title:
N - Special ways of expressing the letter N


Title:
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.


Title:
Nansen International Office for Refugees


Title:
NASH, OGDEN - Nash's The Terrible People


Title:
NASSAU - Fort Fincastle in Nassau, Bahamas


Title:
NATION, CARRY AMELIA MOORE - Carry Nation


Title:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)


Title:
National Assessment of Educational Progress


Title:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)


Title:
National Association for the Education of Young Children


Title:
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches


Title:
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)


Title:
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.


Title:
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.


Title:
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)


Title:
National Conference of Christians and Jews


Title:
National Congress of Parents and Teachers


Title:
National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC)


Title:
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum


Title:
National Education Association of the United States (NEA)


Title:
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities


Title:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)


Title:
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Title:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)


Title:
National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)


Title:
NATIONAL PARK - Kruger National Park in South Africa


Title:
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM - National parks of the United States


Title:
National Primitive Baptist Convention in the U.S.A.


Title:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)


Title:
National Security Agency/Central Security Service


Title:
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM - Water birds at wildlife refuge


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy blue service uniform


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy enlisted personnel grade insignia


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy officers' rank insignia


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy seaman's jumper


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy summer white uniform


Title:
NAVY, UNITED STATES - Navy woman's blue service uniform


Title:
Navy, United States - U.S. Navy timeline


Title:
NEANDERTHALS - Homo sapiens (Neanderthal)


Title:
NEBRASKA - Average January temperatures in Nebraska


Title:
NEBRASKA - Average July temperatures in Nebraska


Title:
NEBRASKA - Average yearly precipitation in Nebraska


Title:
NEBRASKA - Nebraska bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NEPTUNE [planet] - Blue clouds that surround Neptune


Title:
NERVOUS SYSTEM - How the nervous system works


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Bicycle riders in the Netherlands


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Dutch street dance (Horlepiep)


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Dutch street dance (Luciawals)


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Golden Age of the Netherlands


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Netherlands after World War II


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Netherlands land reclamation


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Polders in the Netherlands


Title:
NETHERLANDS - Wilhelmus van Nassouwe (William of Nassau)


Title:
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES - Netherlands Antilles


Title:
NEVADA - Average January temperatures in Nevada


Title:
NEVADA - Average July temperatures in Nevada


Title:
NEVADA - Average yearly precipitation in Nevada


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - Average January temperatures in New Brunswick


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - Average July temperatures in New Brunswick


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - Average yearly precipitation in New Brunswick


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - New Brunswick


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - New Brunswick flag and coat of arms


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - New Brunswick seal and floral emblem


Title:
NEW BRUNSWICK [province, Canada] - Rocks at Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick


Title:
NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION - New England Confederation


Title:
NEW FRANCE - New France in the early 1700's


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Average January temperatures in New Hampshire


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Average July temperatures in New Hampshire


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Average yearly precipitation in New Hampshire


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Grafton County, New Hampshire


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - International Monetary Conference


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Mount Washington Observatory


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - New Hampshire bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - New Hampshire flag and seal


Title:
NEW JERSEY - Average January temperatures in New Jersey


Title:
NEW JERSEY - Average July temperatures in New Jersey


Title:
NEW JERSEY - Average yearly precipitation in New Jersey


Title:
NEW JERSEY - Chemical plant in New Jersey


Title:
NEW JERSEY - New Jersey bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Average January temperatures in New Mexico


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Average July temperatures in New Mexico


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Average yearly precipitation in New Mexico


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Canyon near Los Alamos, New Mexico


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Indian ceremony in New Mexico


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Intel manufacturing facility


Title:
NEW MEXICO - New Mexico bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NEW MEXICO - Pueblo Indian village in New Mexico


Title:
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Garden District


Title:
NEW SOUTH WALES - Livestock show in Sydney, Australia


Title:
NEW YEAR'S DAY - Millennium fireworks in Egypt


Title:
NEW YORK - Average January temperatures in New York


Title:
NEW YORK - Average July temperatures in New York


Title:
NEW YORK - Average yearly precipitation in New York


Title:
NEW YORK - New York bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NEW YORK CITY - Corner of New York's Fifth Avenue


Title:
NEW YORK CITY - Hasidic Jews in New York City


Title:
NEW YORK CITY - New York City flag and seal


Title:
NEW YORK CITY - New York City: The five boroughs


Title:
NEW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL SYSTE - New York State Barge Canal System


Title:
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand flag and coat of arms


Title:
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand's beautiful countryside


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Average January temperatures in Newfoundland and .


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Average July temperatures in Newfoundland and ...


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Average yearly precipitation in Newfoundland and .


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Newfoundland and Labrador


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Newfoundland and Labrador flag and coat of arms


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - Newfoundland and Labrador seal and floral emblem


Title:
Newfoundland and Labrador - Newfoundland and Labrador timeline


Title:
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador


Title:
Newton, Sir Isaac - Sir Isaac Newton timeline


Title:
NICARAGUA - Nicaragua flag and coat of arms


Title:
NICARAGUA - Preparing bananas for export


Title:
NICHOLAS II [czar] - Czar Nicholas II and his family


Title:
NIGERIA - Typical village in rural Nigeria


Title:
NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE - Florence Nightingale


Title:
NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE - Florence Nightingale in Scutari hospital


Title:
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS - "Kitchen debate"


Title:
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS - Nixon announces his resignation


Title:
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS - Nixon leaving the White House


Title:
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS - Nixon's first inaugural address


Title:
Nixon, Richard Milhous - Richard M. Nixon timeline


Title:
No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead (Sonnet 71)


Title:
NOLAN, SIR SIDNEY - Painting by Sir Sidney Nolan


Title:
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Agriculture and fishing in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Average January temperatures in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Average July temperatures in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Average yearly precipitation in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Climate in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Mining and manufacturing in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Population density in North America


Title:
NORTH AMERICA - Terrain of North America


Title:
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)


Title:
North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)


Title:
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATI - NATO bombs explode in Kosovo


Title:
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATI - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) flag


Title:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - Average January temperatures in North Carolina


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - Average July temperatures in North Carolina


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - Average yearly precipitation in North Carolina


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - Cape Hatteras lighthouse


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - North Carolina bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - North Carolina flag and seal


Title:
North Carolina - North Carolina timeline


Title:
NORTH CAROLINA - The Biltmore Estate in Asheville


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - Average January temperatures in North Dakota


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - Average July temperatures in North Dakota


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - Average yearly precipitation in North Dakota


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - North Dakota bird, flower, and tree


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - North Dakota flag and seal


Title:
NORTH DAKOTA - Ranchers on a North Dakota farm


Title:
NORTHERN CAPE - Northern Cape, South Africa


Title:
NORTHERN IRELAND - Belfast, Northern Ireland


Title:
NORTHERN IRELAND - Landscape of Northern Ireland


Title:
NORTHERN IRELAND - Northern Ireland cities


Title:
NORTHERN IRELAND - Northern Ireland counties


Title:
NORTHERN IRELAND - Northern Ireland flag and coat of arms


Title:
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, COMMON - Northern Mariana Islands


Title:
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, COMMON - Northern Marianas flag


Title:
Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of the


Title:
NORTHERN PROVINCE - Northern Province, South Africa


Title:
NORTHERN TERRITORY - Northern Territory interior


Title:
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Alexandra Falls in the Northwest Territories


Title:
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Northwest Territories


Title:
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Northwest Territories symbols


Title:
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Yellowknife, capital of Northwest Territories


Title:
NORTHWEST TERRITORY - Northwest Territory's first settlement


Title:
NORWAY - Ja, vi elsker dette landet (Yes, We Love This Land


Title:
NORWAY - Norwegian folk dance (Reinlender)


Title:
NORWAY - Scenic village of Stryn in Norway


Title:
Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)


Title:
NOTRE DAME, CATHEDRAL OF - Paris: Notre Dame


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Average January temperatures in Nova Scotia


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Average July temperatures in Nova Scotia


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Average yearly precipitation in Nova Scotia


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Lobster fisherman in Nova Scotia


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Nova Scotia flag and coat of arms


Title:
NOVA SCOTIA - Nova Scotia seal and floral emblem


Title:
NUCLEAR ENERGY - Nuclear steam supply system


Title:
NUCLEAR ENERGY - Parts of nuclear reactor


Title:
NUCLEAR ENERGY - Rutherford describes transmutation of the atom


Title:
NUCLEAR WEAPON - Fission nuclear weapons


Title:
NURSERY RHYME - Nursery rhyme: Nonsense rhyme


Title:
NURSERY RHYME - Nursery rhyme: Rhyming riddle


Title:
NURSERY RHYME - Nursery rhyme: Verse story


Title:
NURSING - Nurse taking a patient's blood pressure


Title:
O - Special ways of expressing the letter O


Title:
O, Never Say That I Was False of Heart (Sonnet 109)


Title:
OBASANJO, OLUSEGUN - Olusegun Obasanjo's inauguration


Title:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)


Title:
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY - Occupational therapists


Title:
O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY - Sandra Day O'Connor


Title:
OFFENBACH, JACQUES - Orpheus in the Underworld (Overture: Can Can)


Title:
OHIO - Average January temperatures in Ohio


Title:
OHIO - Average July temperatures in Ohio


Title:
OHIO - Average yearly precipitation in Ohio


Title:
OKLAHOMA - Average January temperatures in Oklahoma


Title:
OKLAHOMA - Average July temperatures in Oklahoma


Title:
OKLAHOMA - Average yearly precipitation in Oklahoma


Title:
OKLAHOMA - Oklahoma bird, flower, and tree


Title:
OKLAHOMA CITY - Terrorist bomb destroyed Murrah Federal Building


Title:
OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG - Old English sheepdog


Title:
OLYMPIC GAMES - Controversy at 1968 Summer Olympic Games


Title:
OLYMPIC GAMES - International Olympic Committee flag


Title:
OLYMPIC GAMES - Michael Johnson of the United States


Title:
OLYMPIC GAMES - Sydney Olympics closing ceremony


Title:
ONASSIS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY - Jacqueline Kennedy


Title:
ONTARIO - Average January temperatures in Ontario


Title:
ONTARIO - Average July temperatures in Ontario


Title:
ONTARIO - Average yearly precipitation in Ontario


Title:
ONTARIO - Ontario seal and floral emblem


Title:
OPERA - "Triumphal March" from Aida (Verdi)


Title:
OPERA - Addio del passato from La Traviata by Verdi


Title:
OPERA - Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore by Verdi


Title:
OPERA - Overture from The Magic Flute by Mozart


Title:
OPERA - Un bel di from Madama Butterfly by Puccini


Title:
OPERA - Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville


Title:
OREGON - Average January temperatures in Oregon


Title:
OREGON - Average July temperatures in Oregon


Title:
OREGON - Average yearly precipitation in Oregon


Title:
OREGON - Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon


Title:
ORGAN [musical instrument] - How a pipe organ works


Title:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development


Title:
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe


Title:
ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (O - Organization of African Unity (OAU) flag


Title:
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES - Organization of American States flag


Title:
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)


Title:
ORTON, JOE - What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton


Title:
OSIRIS - Osiris, Egyptian god of the afterlife


Title:
OTTOMAN EMPIRE - Ottoman Empire: During the 1600's


Title:
OTTOMAN EMPIRE - Ottoman Empire: The Beginnings


Title:
OTTOMAN EMPIRE - Ottoman Empire: The Decline


Title:
Overpopulation and Earth's Diminishing Resources


Title:
Overpopulation and the Threat of Infectious Disease


Title:
P - Special ways of expressing the letter P


Title:
PACIFIC ISLANDS - Traditional ways of life


Title:
PACIFIC ISLANDS - Two types of Pacific islands


Title:
PAINTING - Banquet of Officers of the Civic Guard


Title:
PAINTING - Bathers by Jean Honore Fragonard


Title:
PAINTING - Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli


Title:
PAINTING - Black Lines by Wassily Kandinsky


Title:
PAINTING - Boat-Building near Flatford Mill by John Constable


Title:
PAINTING - Herd of Horses by an unknown artist


Title:
PAINTING - Illustration from the Tale of Genji


Title:
PAINTING - Joachim with the Shepherds by Giotto


Title:
PAINTING - Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez


Title:
PAINTING - Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael


Title:
PAINTING - Madonna of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci


Title:
PAINTING - Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais


Title:
PAINTING - Portrait of Charles I Hunting


Title:
PAINTING - Radha with a confident awaiting Krishna's arrival


Title:
PAINTING - Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight by Claude Monet


Title:
PAINTING - Self-Portrait by Albrecht Durer


Title:
PAINTING - Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth


Title:
PAINTING - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte


Title:
PAINTING - The Annunciation by Fra Angelico


Title:
PAINTING - The Executions of 3rd May, 1808 by Francisco Goya


Title:
PAINTING - The Island of Cythera by Antoine Watteau


Title:
PAINTING - The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt


Title:
PAINTING - The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet


Title:
PAINTING - The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner


Title:
PAINTING - The Tribute Money by Masaccio


Title:
PAINTING - The Vision After the Sermon by Paul Gauguin


Title:
PAINTING - Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints


Title:
PAINTING - Woman, I by Willem de Kooning


Title:
PAKISTAN - Pakistan flag and coat of arms


Title:
PAKISTAN - Wheat field in valley of Karakoram Mountains


Title:
PALMISTRY - Features of the hand in palmistry


Title:
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site


Title:
PANAMA CANAL - Gatun locks, Panama Canal


Title:
PANAMA CANAL - Panama Canal shortens sea voyages


Title:
PANAMA CANAL - President Roosevelt at the Panama Canal


Title:
PANAMA CANAL - Profile of the Panama Canal


Title:
PANAMA CANAL ZONE - Location of the Panama Canal Zone


Title:
Paper or Plastic: Which Bag Is Better for the Environment?


Title:
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Papua New Guinea flag


Title:
PARAGUAY - Paraguay flag and coat of arms


Title:
Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot


Title:
PATTON, GEORGE SMITH, JR. - George S. Patton, Jr.


Title:
PEARSON, LESTER BOWLES - Lester B. Pearson


Title:
PARIS [France] - Paris: Place Igor Stravinsky


Title:
PARIS [France] - Paris: Thinker/Varenne Subway Station


Title:
PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI - Pembroke Welsh corgi


Title:
PENGUIN - Adult emperor penguin warms chick


Title:
PENNSYLVANIA - Average January temperatures in Pennsylvania


Title:
PENNSYLVANIA - Average July temperatures in Pennsylvania


Title:
PENNSYLVANIA - Average yearly precipitation in Pennsylvania


Title:
PENNSYLVANIA - Pennsylvania bird, flower, and tree


Title:
PENNSYLVANIA - Pennsylvania flag and seal


Title:
Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site


Title:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)


Title:
Perfumes and Colognes: Romance in a Bottle


Title:
PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD - Oliver Hazard Perry


Title:
PERSHING, JOHN JOSEPH - General John J. Pershing


Title:
PERSIA, ANCIENT - Persian Empire about 500 B.C.


Title:
PERSIAN GULF WAR - Persian Gulf War: Allied ground attack


Title:
PETROLEUM - How sound waves can help find oil


Title:
PETROLEUM - Petroleum and oil regions of Eastern Hemisphere


Title:
PETROLEUM - Petroleum and oil regions of Western Hemisphere


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Average yearly precipitation in the Philippines


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Economy in the Philippines


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Farming on mountain terraces


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Fishing village in the Philippines


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Philippines flag and coat of arms


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Population density in the Philippines


Title:
PHILIPPINES - Volcanic ash covers automobiles


Title:
PHOENIX [Arizona] - Phoenix flag and seal


Title:
PHOENIX [Arizona] - Phoenix: City and points of interest


Title:
PHOTOGRAPHY - Equipment for developing and printing


Title:
PHOTOGRAPHY - How a black and white photograph is developed


Title:
PHOTOGRAPHY - How an image is formed inside a camera


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Congress Hall


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Downtown Philadelphia


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Greater Philadelphia


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Mummers' Parade


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Philadelphia flag and seal


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Title:
PHILADELPHIA [Pennsylvania] - Philadelphia's City Hall


Title:
PICASSO, PABLO - Chicago Picasso by Pablo Picasso


Title:
PICASSO, PABLO - The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso


Title:
Pierce, Franklin - Franklin Pierce timeline


Title:
PIERCE, FRANKLIN - U.S. states and territories under Pierce


Title:
PIERCE, JANE APPLETON - Jane Appleton Pierce


Title:
PIONEER LIFE IN AMERICA - American pioneer trails


Title:
PIONEER LIFE IN AMERICA - Making clothes


Title:
PIONEER LIFE IN AMERICA - Pioneers traveled in wagon trains


Title:
PIONEER LIFE IN AMERICA - Temporary shelters


Title:
PIPPIN, HORACE - Giving Thanks by Horace Pippin


Title:
PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh: City and points of interest


Title:
PITTSBURGH - Smoke from Pittsburgh's steel mills


Title:
PLANCK, MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG - Max Planck


Title:
PLANETARIUM - Rose Center for Earth and Space


Title:
Planned Parenthood Federation of America


Title:
PLANT - How plants grow longer and wider


Title:
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA - Legend of the True Cross


Title:
PLANT - Plants of the high mountain tundra


Title:
PLANT - Plants of the temperate deciduous forest


Title:
PLANT - Plants of the tropical rain forest


Title:
PLUMMER, CHRISTOPHER - Christopher Plummer


Title:
PLYMOUTH COLONY - Plymouth Colony of 1620


Title:
POETRY [literature] - Dickinson's I Heard a Fly Buzz


Title:
POETRY [literature] - Hopkins' Pied Beauty


Title:
POETRY [literature] - Shakespeare's Sonnet 130


Title:
POETRY [literature] - Tennyson's Break, Break, Break


Title:
POLAND - Gently rolling hills of southern Poland


Title:
POLAND - Poster advertising National Bank of Poland


Title:
POLAND - Roman Catholics at an outdoor religious ceremony


Title:
Poe, Edgar Allan - Edgar Allan Poe timeline


Title:
POLISH CORRIDOR - Location of the Polish Corridor


Title:
POLITICAL CONVENTION - Republican convention in 2001


Title:
Polk, James Knox - James K. Polk timeline


Title:
POLK, JAMES KNOX - U.S. states and territories under Polk


Title:
POLK, SARAH CHILDRESS - Sarah Childress Polk


Title:
PONCE DE LEON, JUAN - Ponce de Leon's exploration in 1513


Title:
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico


Title:
Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth (Sonnet 146)


Title:
POPE, ALEXANDER - Pope's An Essay on Criticism


Title:
POPE, ALEXANDER - Pope's The Rape of the Lock


Title:
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey


Title:
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE - Katherine Anne Porter


Title:
PORTLAND [Oregon] - Downtown Portland, Oregon


Title:
PORTUGAL - A Portuguesa (The Portuguese)


Title:
PORTUGAL - Roman Catholic church in Portugal


Title:
PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR - Portuguese man-of-war


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - Benjamin Franklin


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - First railway mail cars


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - First regular airmail service


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - Overland mail


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - Pony express riders


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - Rural free delivery


Title:
POSTAL SERVICE, UNITED STATES - U.S. Postal Service truck


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - Letter carrier collecting mail


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - Letter carrier delivering mail


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - Optical character reader


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - Stagecoach delivering mail


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - U.K. postal service vehicle


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - U.S. Postal Service airplane


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - U.S. postal worker delivering mail


Title:
POSTAL SERVICES - World's first postage stamp


Title:
PREHISTORIC ANIMAL - Animals of the Cenozoic Era


Title:
PREHISTORIC ANIMAL - Animals of the Mesozoic Era


Title:
PREHISTORIC ANIMAL - Animals of the Paleozoic Era


Title:
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE - Australopithecus robustus skull


Title:
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE - Homo sapiens sapiens


Title:
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE - Remains of prehistoric people map


Title:
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - Camp David


Title:
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - President of the United States flag


Title:
President of the United States - Presidents of the United States timeline


Title:
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - Seal of the President of the United States


Title:
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - The President's office


Title:
Preventing and Treating Childhood Obesity


Title:
Prime minister of Canada - Prime ministers of Canada timeline


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Average January temp. on Prince Edward Island


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Average July temperatures on Prince Edward Island


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Average yearly precip. on Prince Edward Island


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - East Point, Prince Edward Island


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Prince Edward Island


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Prince Edward Island flag and coat of arms


Title:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Prince Edward Island seal and floral emblem


Title:
Prince Edward Island - Prince Edward Island timeline


Title:
PROKOFIEV, SERGEI SERGEYEVICH - Sergei Prokofiev


Title:
PROPAGANDA - Two propaganda versions of Adolf Hitler


Title:
PterodactylsFlying Marvels of the Mesozoic


Title:
PUEBLO INDIANS - Pueblo village of today


Title:
PUERTO RICO - Pharmaceutical manufacturing


Title:
PUERTO RICO - Traditional wood figures called santos


Title:
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs


Title:
PURCELL, HENRY - Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell


Title:
PUTIN, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH - Vladimir Putin casts his ballot


Title:
PYRAMIDS - Cross section of the Great Pyramid


Title:
Q - Special ways of expressing the letter Q


Title:
QADHAFI, MUAMMAR MUHAMMAD AL- - Muammar al-Qadhafi


Title:
Quantico Marine Corps Combat Development Command


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Average January temperatures in Quebec


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Average July temperatures in Quebec


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Average yearly precipitation in Quebec


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Quebec flag and coat of arms


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - Quebec seal and floral emblem


Title:
QUEBEC [province] - St.-Lambert Lock in Montreal


Title:
R - Special ways of expressing the letter R


Title:
RADAR - Radar locations in North America


Title:
RADIATION - Particles given off by radioactive atoms


Title:
RADIO - First transatlantic wireless communication


Title:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)


Title:
RAILROAD - Railroad passenger routes in North America


Title:
RAIN - Coalescence process of rain formation


Title:
RAIN - Ice-crystal process of rain formation


Title:
RAIN - Precipitation distribution around the world


Title:
RAIN FOREST - Dense rain forests along the Sepik River


Title:
RAIN FOREST - Tropical rain forest sounds


Title:
RANCHING - Famous ranch brands of the Old West


Title:
RATTLESNAKE - Some common varieties of rattlesnakes


Title:
RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings


Title:
READING [skill] - Reading aloud to a child


Title:
REAGAN, RONALD WILSON - Popular movie actor


Title:
REAGAN, RONALD WILSON - Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev


Title:
REAGAN, RONALD WILSON - Reagan's first inaugural address


Title:
REAGAN, RONALD WILSON - Ronald and Nancy Reagan


Title:
Reagan, Ronald Wilson - Ronald Reagan timeline


Title:
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) - Popular recreational vehicles


Title:
RED CROSS - Flags of relief organizations


Title:
RED CROSS - Red Cross administers disaster relief


Title:
Reducing the Dangers of Dangerous Household Waste


Title:
REHNQUIST, WILLIAM HUBBS - William Rehnquist


Title:
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER - Sir Walter Raleigh


Title:
RELIGION - Hindus bathe in the Ganges River


Title:
RELIGION - Prehistoric religious ceremonies


Title:
REMBRANDT - Rembrandt's etching Christ before Pilate


Title:
RENAISSANCE - Flying machine drawing by Leonardo da Vinci


Title:
RENAISSANCE - Ruling family of an Italian city-state


Title:
RENAISSANCE - The Madonna and Child with Chancellor Rolin


Title:
RENOIR, PIERRE AUGUSTE - Pierre Auguste Renoir


Title:
REPRODUCTION, HUMAN - Development of a human embryo


Title:
REPRODUCTION, HUMAN - Human reproductive system


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Battle of Bunker Hill


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Battle of Trenton


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Naval battle


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Revolutionary War battles: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York


Title:
Revolutionary War in America - Revolutionary War in America timeline


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Revolutionary War: Lexington & Concord


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Revolutionary War: overview of battles and campaigns in the North


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Revolutionary War: overview of battles and campaigns in the South


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Soldier loading flintlock musket


Title:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AMERICA - Treaty of Paris


Title:
RHODE ISLAND - Average January temperatures in Rhode Island


Title:
RHODE ISLAND - Average July temperatures in Rhode Island


Title:
RHODE ISLAND - Average yearly precipitation in Rhode Island


Title:
RHODE ISLAND - Rhode Island bird, flower, and tree


Title:
RHODE ISLAND - Rhode Island flag and seal


Title:
RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK - Rhodesian ridgeback


Title:
RICE - Rice-producing regions of the world


Title:
Richard Nixon: How Will History Judge His Legacy?


Title:
RIEFENSTAHL, LENI - Leni Riefenstahl film


Title:
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI - Russian Easter Overture


Title:
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI - Spanish Capriccio


Title:
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI - The Golden Cockerel


Title:
Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro timeline


Title:
RIVER [stream of water] - Parts of a river system


Title:
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND M - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum


Title:
ROCK MUSIC - Rock music: Early rock 'n' roll (Doo Wop Bed)


Title:
ROCK MUSIC - Rock music: Early rock 'n' roll (Johnny Too Bad)


Title:
ROCK MUSIC - Rock music: Progressive/acid rock


Title:
ROCKET [device] - How a multistage rocket works


Title:
ROCKET [device] - Kennedy Space Center and Rocket Park


Title:
ROCKET [device] - Liquid-propellant rocket


Title:
ROCKET [device] - Solid-propellant rocket


Title:
ROCKET, MODEL - Three kinds of model rockets


Title:
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER - American dog tick


Title:
RODIN, AUGUSTE - Auguste Rodin watches his assistant


Title:
RODIN, AUGUSTE - Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin


Title:
RODIN, AUGUSTE - Rodin: The Thinker, Palace/Legion of Honor SF


Title:
ROGERS, GINGER - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers


Title:
ROLLER SKATING - Parts of a roller skate


Title:
ROLLER SKATING - Parts of an in-line skate


Title:
ROME [Italy] - Rome: Victor Emmanuel Monument


Title:
ROME, ANCIENT - Division of the Roman Empire


Title:
ROME, ANCIENT - Growth of the Roman Empire


Title:
ROOSEVELT, EDITH CAROW - Edith Carow Roosevelt


Title:
ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR - Eleanor Roosevelt on human rights


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - "Fireside chats"


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Fireside chat on banking


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Franklin Roosevelt


Title:
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Franklin Roosevelt timeline


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Roosevelt responds to Pearl Harbor attack


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Roosevelt traveled overseas


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Roosevelt's first inaugural address


Title:
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO - Roosevelt's fourth inaugural address


Title:
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE - Theodore Roosevelt


Title:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt timeline


Title:
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE - U.S. states and territories under Roosevelt


Title:
ROOT [botany] - Main parts of a root system


Title:
ROOT [botany] - Secondary tissues in roots


Title:
ROOT [botany] - Two chief kinds of root systems


Title:
ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO - Gioacchino Rossini


Title:
ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO - The Barber of Seville Overture


Title:
ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO - William Tell Overture


Title:
RUBBER - Rubber-producing regions of the world


Title:
RUGBY FOOTBALL - Rugby League football field


Title:
RUGBY FOOTBALL - Rugby Union football field


Title:
RUGS AND CARPETS - Knots for Oriental rugs


Title:
RUGS AND CARPETS - Tufted floor covering


Title:
RUGS AND CARPETS - Types of carpet weaves


Title:
RUSSIA - Average January temperatures in Russia


Title:
RUSSIA - Average July temperatures in Russia


Title:
RUSSIA - Average yearly precipitation in Russia


Title:
Russian literature - Russian literature timeline


Title:
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey


Title:
S - Special ways of expressing the letter S


Title:
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site


Title:
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS - Saint Kitts and Nevis


Title:
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS - St. Kitts and Nevis flag


Title:
SAINT LAURENT, LOUIS STEPHEN - Louis S. St. Laurent


Title:
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY - Saint Lawrence Seaway


Title:
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY - Saint Lawrence Seaway opens


Title:
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation


Title:
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


Title:
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES - St. Vincent and the Grenadines flag


Title:
SAMOA [Country] - Samoan traditional song


Title:
SAINT LOUIS - St. Louis: City and points of interest


Title:
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site


Title:
SAINT PETERSBURG [Russia] - Great Palace at Pavlovsk


Title:
SAINT PETERSBURG [Russia] - Winter Palace


Title:
SAN ANDREAS FAULT - Distinct surface fracture


Title:
SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio: City and points of interest


Title:
SAN DIEGO - San Diego: City and points of interest


Title:
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco flag and seal


Title:
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco: City and points of interest


Title:
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco: Palace of Fine Arts


Title:
SAN FRANCISCO - The Age of Bronze, Palace/Legion of Honor SF


Title:
SAN FRANCISCO - Victorian-style houses in San Francisco


Title:
SAN JOSE [California] - San Jose flag and seal


Title:
SAN JOSE [California] - San Jose, California


Title:
SAN JOSE [California] - San Jose: City and points of interest


Title:
SAN MARINO [country] - Honor to You, O Ancient Republic


Title:
SAN MARINO [country] - San Marino symbols


Title:
SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE - Santa Anna


Title:
SASKATCHEWAN - Average January temperatures in Saskatchewan


Title:
SASKATCHEWAN - Average July temperatures in Saskatchewan


Title:
SASKATCHEWAN - Average yearly precipitation in Saskatchewan


Title:
SASKATCHEWAN - Saskatchewan flag and coat of arms


Title:
SASKATCHEWAN - Saskatchewan seal and floral emblem


Title:
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Sao Tome and Principe


Title:
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Sao Tome and Principe flag


Title:
SATELLITE - Miranda, satellite of Uranus


Title:
SATELLITE, ARTIFICIAL - Communications satellite


Title:
SATELLITE, ARTIFICIAL - Satellite orbits


Title:
SATURN [planet] - Dark side of Saturn's rings


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Arabic contemporary Bedouin music


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Eastern Lowlands of Saudia Arabia


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Oil port of Ras Tanura, Saudia Arabia


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Palace of Justice in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia


Title:
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia flag and coat of arms


Title:
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site


Title:
SCARLATTI, DOMENICO - Harpsichord Sonata in C major


Title:
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von


Title:
SCHOOL [education] - Historic American schoolroom


Title:
SCHUBERT, FRANZ PETER - Symphony in C major


Title:
SCHUBERT, FRANZ PETER - Symphony No. 8 in B Minor: "Unfinished"


Title:
SCHUBERT, FRANZ PETER - The Trout (piano quintet)


Title:
SCHULZ, CHARLES MONROE - Charles Schulz holding a sketch of Snoopy


Title:
SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD - Arnold Schwarzenegger


Title:
Science fiction - Science fiction timeline


Title:
SCOPES TRIAL - Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan


Title:
SCOTLAND - Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews


Title:
SCULPTURE - A Shepherd Boy by Bertel Thorvaldsen


Title:
SCULPTURE - Alexander Sarcophagus (detail)


Title:
SCULPTURE - Battle of the gods and giants


Title:
SCULPTURE - Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp


Title:
SCULPTURE - Gravestone by Zerubbabel Collins


Title:
SCULPTURE - Greek gods Poseidon and Apollo


Title:
SCULPTURE - Metate (corn-grinding platform)


Title:
SCULPTURE - Red Petals by Alexander Calder


Title:
SCULPTURE - Shiva by unknown Hindu sculptor


Title:
SCULPTURE - Statue of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini


Title:
SCULPTURE - Surrounded Islands by Christo


Title:
SCULPTURE - The Cheyenne by Frederic Remington


Title:
SCULPTURE - The Massacre of the Innocents by Giovanni Pisano


Title:
SCULPTURE - The Palace at 4 A.M. by Alberto Giacometti


Title:
SCULPTURE - Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici by Michelangelo


Title:
SCULPTURE - Tympanum of the central portal of Vezelay Abbey


Title:
SCULPTURE - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni


Title:
SCULPTURE - Vessel in the form of a jaguar


Title:
SCULPTURE - Voltaire by Jean Antoine Houdon


Title:
SCULPTURE - Woman with Suitcases by Duane Hanson


Title:
SEATTLE - Seattle: City and points of interest


Title:
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)


Title:
SEAL [sea animal] - Male Northern fur seal


Title:
SEAL [sea animal] - Mother Australian sea lion and pup


Title:
Self-test Kits Bring Medicine Closer to Home


Title:
SELLERS, PETER - Peter Sellers in Return of the Pink Panther


Title:
SENEGAL - Independence Day festival in Senegal


Title:
SEOUL - Seoul: City and points of interest


Title:
SEQUOIA - Sequoia forest in Sequoia National Park


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Colossus of Rhodes


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Hanging Gardens of Babylon


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Lighthouse of Alexandria


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Location of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Mausoleum at Halicarnassus


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Pyramids of Egypt


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Statue of Zeus


Title:
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WOR - Temple of Artemis


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Elizabethan theater


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakepeare's The Tempest: Prospero


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: Enobarbus


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's As You Like It: Jacques


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Macbeth


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Richard II


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Romeo


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Sonnet 138


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18


Title:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Statue of Shakespeare


Title:
Shakespeare, William - William Shakespeare timeline


Title:
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18)


Title:
SHANGHAI - One of Shanghai, China's, main streets


Title:
SHANGHAI - Pudong area in Shanghai, China


Title:
SHEEP - Cheviot and Leicester crossbreed sheep


Title:
SHELL [biology] - Parts of a bivalve shell


Title:
SHELL [biology] - Parts of a gastropod shell


Title:
SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


Title:
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE - Shelley's Ode to the West Wind


Title:
SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH - William T. Sherman


Title:
SHIP - Prehistoric and ancient Egyptian ships


Title:
SHIP - Shipping companies flags and funnels


Title:
SHIP - Ships of the 1200's to the 1500's


Title:
SHIP - Ships of the 1500's to the 1800's


Title:
SHOSTAKOVICH, DIMITRI - Dimitri Shostakovich


Title:
SHOTGUN - Parts of a pump action shotgun


Title:
SIGN LANGUAGE - Actors use sign language


Title:
SIGN LANGUAGE - American manual alphabet


Title:
Signorelli, Luca di Egidio di Ventura de'


Title:
Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea (Sonnet 65)


Title:
SKELETON [anatomy] - Some kinds of animal skeletons


Title:
SKIN DIVING - Breath-hold diving equipment


Title:
SMETANA, BEDRICH - River Moldau (From Ma Vlast)


Title:
SNAKE - How body shape differs among snakes


Title:
SNAKE - Some harmless snakes of North America


Title:
SNAKE - Some poisonous snakes of North America


Title:
Society for the Advancement of Education


Title:
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)


Title:
SOFTBALL - Home-plate area of softball field


Title:
SOLAR ENERGY - How a photovoltaic cell produces energy


Title:
SOLAR ENERGY - How solar energy heats a house


Title:
SOLOMON ISLANDS [country] - Solomon Islands


Title:
SOLOMON ISLANDS [country] - Solomon Islands flag


Title:
Some key events in the Asian economic crisis


Title:
SONGHAI EMPIRE - Songhai Empire about 1500


Title:
SOUSA, JOHN PHILIP - Stars and Stripes Forever


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Agriculture and fishing in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Average January temperatures in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Average July temperatures in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Average yearly precipitation in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Khoikhoin settlement on the Orange River


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Mining and manufacturing in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Population density in South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa flag and coat of arms


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Zulu and Xhosa music from South Africa


Title:
SOUTH AFRICA - Zulu farms against a backdrop of mountain scenery


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Agriculture and fishing in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Average January temperatures in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Average July temperatures in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Average yearly precipitation in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Climate in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Iron-ore mining in Chile


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Mining and manufacturing in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Population density in South America


Title:
SOUTH AMERICA - Terrain of South America


Title:
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - Average January temperatures in South Carolina


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - Average July temperatures in South Carolina


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - Average yearly precipitation in South Carolina


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - Charleston, South Carolina


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina Aquarium


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina bird, flower, and tree


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina flag and seal


Title:
South Carolina - South Carolina timeline


Title:
SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina's Up Country


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - Average January temperatures in South Dakota


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - Average July temperatures in South Dakota


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - Average yearly precipitation in South Dakota


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - Black Hills of South Dakota


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - Falls of the Big Sioux River


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - South Dakota bird, flower, and tree


Title:
SOUTH DAKOTA - South Dakota flag and seal


Title:
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)


Title:
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO)


Title:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)


Title:
SOYBEAN - Soybean-producing areas of the world


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Apollo 11 after splashdown


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Apparently weightless floating


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Astronaut Edward H. White II walks in space


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Development of the space shuttle


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Early manned spacecraft


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - First people on the moon


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - First seven U.S. astronauts


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Floating launch site


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Flying free in space


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Launch vehicles that made history


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Mariner 10 space probe


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - NASA: Astronauts Memorial


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Recording medical information


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Soviet Soyuz spacecraft


Title:
Space exploration - Space exploration timeline


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Space shuttle Columbia


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Space shuttle interior


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - To sleep aboard a spacecraft


Title:
SPACE EXPLORATION - Today's launch vehicles


Title:
SPAIN - Average January temperature in Spain


Title:
SPAIN - Average July temperature in Spain


Title:
SPAIN - Average yearly precipitation in Spain


Title:
SPAIN - Capilla Real, Cathedral of Seville


Title:
SPAIN - Francisco Franco and Juan Carlos


Title:
SPANISH CIVIL WAR - Nationalist soldiers capture Republican troops


Title:
Spanish literature - Spanish literature timeline


Title:
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - Rough Rider regiment


Title:
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - Spanish-American War: Major Battles


Title:
SPEARFISHING - Kinds of spears and spear guns


Title:
Springfield Armory National Historic Site


Title:
STALLONE, SYLVESTER - Sylvester Stallone


Title:
STAMP ACT - Three stamps used by the British government


Title:
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY - Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Title:
STAR - High-mass stars create chemical elements


Title:
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER - Star-Spangled Banner


Title:
STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of State seal


Title:
STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of state flag


Title:
STATUE OF LIBERTY - Lazarus' The New Colossus


Title:
STATUE OF LIBERTY - Major repairs and renovation


Title:
STATUE OF LIBERTY - Statue of Liberty National Monument


Title:
STEAM ENGINE - Thomas Newcomen's steam engine


Title:
Stephen Sondheim: A Man Outside the System


Title:
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS - Robert Louis Stevenson


Title:
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS - Stevenson's family at Vailima


Title:
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS - Stevenson's Requiem


Title:
STIEGLITZ, ALFRED - The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz


Title:
STRAUSS, JOHANN, JR. - Die Fledermaus (The Bat)


Title:
STRAUSS, JOHANN, JR. - Johann Strauss, Jr.


Title:
STRAUSS, JOHANN, JR. - On the Beautiful, Blue Danube


Title:
STRAUSS, JOHANN, JR. - The Emperor Waltz


Title:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)


Title:
SUBMARINE - Basic parts of a ballistic missile submarine


Title:
SUBMARINE - Basic parts of an attack submarine


Title:
SUDAN - Jundi al-Allah (Soldiers of God)


Title:
SUEZ CANAL - Suez Canal shortens sea voyages


Title:
SUGAR - How raw sugar is obtained from sugar cane


Title:
SUPERFLUID - Two experiments with superfluid


Title:
SUPPE, FRANZ VON - Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STAT - Supreme Court of the United States


Title:
Supreme Court of the United States - Chief justices of the United States timeline


Title:
Supreme Court of the United States - Key Supreme Court decisions timeline


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1922)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1930)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1973)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1974)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1975)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1976)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1977)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1978)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1979)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1980)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1981)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1982)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1983)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1984)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1985)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1986)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1987)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1988)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1989)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1990)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1992)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1993)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1994)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1995)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1996)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1997)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1998)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1999)


Title:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2001)


Title:
SWEDEN - Average January temperature in Sweden


Title:
SWEDEN - Average July temperature in Sweden


Title:
SWEDEN - Average yearly precipitation in Sweden


Title:
SWEDEN - Du gamla, du fria, du fjallhoga nord


Title:
SWEDEN - Sweden: Wars in the late 1500's


Title:
SWIFT [bird] - Swifts roost on vertical surfaces


Title:
SWITZERLAND - Cattle graze in high Swiss mountain pastures


Title:
SWITZERLAND - Mountain scenery of Switzerland


Title:
SWITZERLAND - Population density in Switzerland


Title:
SWITZERLAND - Switzerland: Expansion from 1291-1815


Title:
SWITZERLAND - Switzerland's watchmaking industry


Title:
SYRIA - Humata al-Diyari (Guardians of the Homeland)


Title:
SYRIA - Shoppers in vegetable market, Aleppo, Syria


Title:
SYRIA - Syrian men packing cotton harvest


Title:
T - Special ways of expressing the letter T


Title:
TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD - U.S. states and territories under Taft


Title:
TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD - William Howard Taft


Title:
Taft, William Howard - William Howard Taft timeline


Title:
TAHITI - Tahitian traditional drum music


Title:
TAIWAN - Chung Hwa Min Kuo Kuo Ke (Chinese National Anthem)


Title:
TANZANIA - God the Almighty Bless Africa


Title:
Taylor, Zachary - Zachary Taylor timeline


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - 1812 Overture


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - Italian Capriccio


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - Symphony No. 5


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) by Tchaikovsky


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - The Nutcracker


Title:
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH - The Sleeping Beauty


Title:
TEACHING - Teachers help students master computers


Title:
TELESCOPE - Newtonian reflecting telescope


Title:
TELEVISION - Antennas for satellite television


Title:
TELEVISION - How color television is received


Title:
TELEVISION - How color television is transmitted


Title:
TENNESSEE - Average January temperatures in Tennessee


Title:
TENNESSEE - Average July temperatures in Tennessee


Title:
TENNESSEE - Average yearly precipitation in Tennessee


Title:
TENNESSEE - Tennessee bird, flower, and tree


Title:
TENNYSON, LORD [poet] - Tennyson's Idylls of the King


Title:
TENNYSON, LORD [poet] - Tennyson's In Memoriam


Title:
TERESHKOVA, VALENTINA VLADIMIROV - Valentina Tereshkova


Title:
TEXAS - Average January temperatures in Texas


Title:
TEXAS - Average July temperatures in Texas


Title:
TEXAS - Average yearly precipitation in Texas


Title:
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (Sonnet 73)


Title:
The 1990 Census: An American Self-Portrait


Title:
The 2001 Energy Crunch: Crisis or Wake-up Call?


Title:
The Aging Population: A Medical Challenge for the Next Century


Title:
The Changing Profile of America: The 2000 Census


Title:
The Cold War's Last Front: The United States and Cuba


Title:
The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation


Title:
The Formation of Galaxies and Other Structures


Title:
The Global Positioning System Charts New Territory


Title:
The Lure and Lore of the Dead Sea Scrolls


Title:
The Queen Mother: Creator of the Modern Monarchy


Title:
The Second Office: Nixon Looks at the Vice Presidency


Title:
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site


Title:
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site


Title:
THERMOMETER - Other types of thermometers


Title:
THERMOSTAT - How a home thermostat works


Title:
Th'expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame (Sonnet 129)


Title:
They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None (Sonnet 94)


Title:
THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW DAVID - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson


Title:
THYROID GLAND - Thyroid cartilage (back)


Title:
THYROID GLAND - Thyroid cartilage (front)


Title:
THYROID GLAND - Thyroid gland (back) MultiViews


Title:
THYROID GLAND - Thyroid gland (front) MultiViews


Title:
Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry (Sonnet 66)


Title:
Tissue Engineering--From Science Fiction to Medical Fact


Title:
TORNADO - Where tornadoes strike in the United States


Title:
TORONTO - Toronto: City and points of interest


Title:
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI DE - At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Title:
TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE - Toussaint L'Ouverture


Title:
TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY - Trans-Canada Highway


Title:
TRANSPLANT - Commonly transplanted body parts


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Transportation in early modern times


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Transportation in prehistoric times


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Transportation in the 1800's


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Transportation in the 1930's


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Vehicles of ancient times


Title:
TRANSPORTATION - Vehicles of the early 1900's


Title:
TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Transportation seal


Title:
TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of transportation flag


Title:
Travelers Aid Societies, National Organization of


Title:
TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF THE - Department of the Treasury seal


Title:
TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF THE - U.S. secretary of the treasury flag


Title:
TREE - Needleleaf trees of North America


Title:
TREE - Seeds of broadleaf and needleleaf trees


Title:
TREE - Trees from other parts of the world


Title:
TRIANGLE [geometry] - Kinds of triangles


Title:
TRIANGLE [geometry] - Parts of a triangle


Title:
TRIANGLE [musical instrument] - Triangle


Title:
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Trinidad and Tobago


Title:
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Trinidad and Tobago flag


Title:
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Trinidadian carnival music


Title:
TROJAN WAR - Greeks built the Trojan horse


Title:
TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT - Pierre Trudeau


Title:
Truman, Harry S. - Harry S. Truman timeline


Title:
TRUMAN, HARRY S. - President Truman's family


Title:
TRUMAN, HARRY S. - Truman on dropping the atomic bomb


Title:
TRUMAN, HARRY S. - Truman won an upset victory


Title:
TUBERCULOSIS - How tuberculosis develops


Title:
Tubman, Harriet - Harriet Tubman timeline


Title:
TUPPER, SIR CHARLES - Sir Charles Tupper


Title:
TURKEY [bird] - Common varieties of turkeys


Title:
TURKEY [country] - Crowded street in Turkey


Title:
TURKEY [country] - Earthquake damage in western Turkey


Title:
TURKEY [country] - Istiklal Marsi (Independence March)


Title:
TURKEY [country] - Shepherding in Turkey


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TURKEY [country] - Weaving an Oriental rug


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TURKMENISTAN - Raising horses in Turkmenistan


Title:
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS - Turks and Caicos Islands


Title:
Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair (Sonnet 144)


Title:
TYLER, JOHN - U.S. states and territories under Tyler


Title:
TYLER, JULIA GARDINER - Julia Gardiner Tyler


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TYLER, LETITIA CHRISTIAN - Letitia Christian Tyler


Title:
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site


Title:
TUTANKHAMEN - Discovering the Tomb of Tutankhamen


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TUTANKHAMEN - Notes played on Tutankhamen's trumpet


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TYRANNOSAURUS - Early view of Tyrannosaurus rex


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TYRANNOSAURUS - Modern illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex


Title:
Tyrannosaurus rex: The Tyrant Still Reigns


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U - Special ways of expressing the letter U


Title:
Uncovering African Americans' Buried Past


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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - Underground railroad


Title:
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees


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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBL - Long lines of shoppers


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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBL - May Day celebration in Moscow


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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBL - U.S.S.R. Republics


Title:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republ - U.S.S.R. timeline


Title:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)


Title:
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates


Title:
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - United Arab Emirates


Title:
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - United Arab Emirates flag


Title:
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (U.A.R.) - Location of the United Arab Republic


Title:
United Kingdom - United Kingdom timeline


Title:
United Nations - United Nations timeline


Title:
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Average January temperatures in the United Kingdom


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Average July temperatures in the United Kingdom


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Average yearly precipitation in the United Kingdom


Title:
United Kingdom - British monarchs timeline


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Economy in the United Kingdom


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Golf course at St. Andrews, Scotland


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Population density in the United Kingdom


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Royal Ascot race meeting


Title:
UNITED KINGDOM - Snowdonia National Park in Wales


Title:
UNITED NATIONS (UN) - Destroying weapons


Title:
UNITED NATIONS (UN) - Disarming land mines


Title:
UNITED NATIONS (UN) - United Nations flag


Title:
UNITED NATIONS (UN) - United Nations headquarters


Title:
United Nations Commission on Human Rights


Title:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)


Title:
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)


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UNITED STATES - Agriculture in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Average January temperatures in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Average July temperatures in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Average yearly precipitation in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Coastal Lowlands in the United States


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UNITED STATES - Death Valley, California


Title:
UNITED STATES - Desert areas in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Economy in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Farmers exhibit livestock at Iowa fair


Title:
UNITED STATES - Highway construction in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Interior Plains of the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Manufacturing in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Population density in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Residential architecture in the Prairie style


Title:
UNITED STATES - Skyscrapers in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - Suburban street in the United States


Title:
UNITED STATES - United States' Pacific Coast


Title:
UNITED STATES - United States: Geographic Center


Title:
UNITED STATES - United States: Interstate highway system


Title:
UNITED STATES, GOVERNMENT OF THE - U.S. Supreme Court Building


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Atomic bomb blast


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Automobile ownership


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Beginnings of the Revolutionary War


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UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Civil War


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Dust Bowl


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UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Progressive Era


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Suburban housing developments


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - The National Road


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Troops escort black students into school


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - Troopship carries U.S. soldiers in World War I


Title:
United States, History of the - United States timeline


Title:
UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE - William Penn's treaty with the indians


Title:
Universities and Colleges Admission Service


Title:
UNKNOWN SOLDIER - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier


Title:
URANIUM - Uranium-producing areas of the world


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UTAH - Average January temperatures in Utah


Title:
UTAH - Average July temperatures in Utah


Title:
UTAH - Average yearly precipitation in Utah


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UTAH - First transcontinental railroad system


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UTAH - Transportation equipment manufacturing in Utah


Title:
V - Special ways of expressing the letter V


Title:
VALENTINE'S DAY - Oldest American valentine


Title:
VALENTINE'S DAY - Valentine by Kate Greenaway


Title:
VALLEY OF THE KINGS - Valley of the Kings


Title:
VAN BUREN, MARTIN - Angelica Singleton Van Buren


Title:
Van Buren, Martin - Martin Van Buren timeline


Title:
VAN BUREN, MARTIN - U.S. states and territories under Van Buren


Title:
VAN DYCK, SIR ANTHONY - Marquise Jeronima Spinola-Doria


Title:
VAN GOGH, VINCENT - Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh


Title:
VANCOUVER [British Columbia] - Colorful totem poles


Title:
VANCOUVER [British Columbia] - Vancouver


Title:
VANCOUVER [British Columbia] - Vancouver, British Columbia


Title:
VANCOUVER [British Columbia] - Vancouver's coat of arms


Title:
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site


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VEGETABLE - Plant parts used as vegetables


Title:
VENEZUELA - Gloria al Bravo Pueblo (Glory to the Brave People)


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VENTURA, JESSE - Jesse Ventura with President Clinton


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VENUS [planet] - Thick clouds cover Venus


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VERDI, GIUSEPPE - Rigoletto (Questa o quella)


Title:
VERMONT - Average January temperatures in Vermont


Title:
VERMONT - Average July temperatures in Vermont


Title:
VERMONT - Average yearly precipitation in Vermont


Title:
VERMONT - Green Mountains in Central Vermont


Title:
VERMONT - Vermont bird, flower, and tree


Title:
VERSAILLES, PALACE OF - Palace of Versailles


Title:
VESPUCCI, AMERIGO - Vespucci's explorations


Title:
VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF - Department of Veterans Affairs seal


Title:
VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF - U.S. secretary of veterans affairs flag


Title:
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW)


Title:
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA - Seal of the Vice President of the United States


Title:
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA - Vice President of the United States flag


Title:
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA - Vice President's official residence


Title:
Vice president of the United States - Vice presidents of the United States timeline


Title:
VICTORIA [queen of England] - Queen Victoria


Title:
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL - Vietnam Veterans Memorial


Title:
VIETNAM WAR - Civilians flee advancing North Vietnamese troops


Title:
VIETNAM WAR - Helicopters transport troops in Vietnam War


Title:
VIETNAM WAR - Vietnam War: Major Battles


Title:
VIRGIN ISLANDS - Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands


Title:
VIRGIN ISLANDS - Market in the Virgin Islands


Title:
VIRGIN ISLANDS - U.S. Virgin Islands flag and seal


Title:
VIRGINIA - Average January temperatures in Virginia


Title:
VIRGINIA - Average July temperatures in Virginia


Title:
VIRGINIA - Average yearly precipitation in Virginia


Title:
VIRGINIA - Virginia bird, flower, and tree


Title:
VIRGINIA BEACH - Virginia Beach, Virginia


Title:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


Title:
VIRTUAL REALITY - Virtual reality system


Title:
VIDEOTAPE RECORDER - Analog videotape recording


Title:
VIETNAM - Indochina Peninsula about A.D. 300


Title:
VIETNAM - Temple ruins, Hoi Ann, Vietnam


Title:
VIETNAM - Tien Quan Ca (Forward Soldiers)


Title:
VOICE [sound] - How the vocal cords produce sounds


Title:
W - Special ways of expressing the letter W


Title:
WAGNER, RICHARD - The Ring of the Nibelung: The Twilight of the Gods


Title:
WAGNER, RICHARD - The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie


Title:
WAGNER, RICHARD - Wedding March (Bridal Song) by Richard Wagner


Title:
WALKER, MADAM C. J. - Madam C. J. Walker


Title:
Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von


Title:
War for the White House: A Legacy of the U.S. Constitution


Title:
WAR OF 1812 - Bombs burst over Fort McHenry


Title:
WAR OF 1812 - War of 1812: Major Battles


Title:
WASHINGTON - Average January temperatures in Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON - Average July temperatures in Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON - Average yearly precipitation in Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON - Harvesting apples in Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON - Washington bird, flower, and tree


Title:
WASHINGTON MONUMENT - Washington Monument


Title:
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. - Booker T. Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. - Booker T. Washington giving a speech


Title:
Washington, Booker T. - Booker T. Washington timeline


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Marine Corps War Memorial


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pierre L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C.


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States Capitol


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington, D.C. area


Title:
Washington, George - George Washington timeline


Title:
WASHINGTON, GEORGE - U.S. states and territories under Washington


Title:
WASHINGTON, GEORGE - Washington giving inaugural address


Title:
WASHINGTON, GEORGE - Washington's Cabinet


Title:
WASHINGTON, GEORGE - Winter at Valley Forge


Title:
WASHINGTON, MARTHA CUSTIS - Martha Washington


Title:
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site


Title:
WATER POLLUTION - How water pollution occurs


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington, D.C. flag and seal


Title:
Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C. timeline


Title:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington, D.C.: City and points of interest


Title:
WEASEL - Long-tailed weasel with white coat


Title:
WEATHER - How air masses affect the weather


Title:
WEBER, CARL MARIA VON - Invitation to the Dance


Title:
WEST HIGHLAND WHITE TERRIER - West Highland white terrier


Title:
WEST INDIES - Secluded beach on Barbados


Title:
WEST INDIES - West Indian contemporary dance


Title:
WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL - Welsh springer spaniel


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - Average January temperatures in West Virginia


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - Average July temperatures in West Virginia


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - Average yearly precipitation in West Virginia


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - Charleston, West Virginia


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - West Virginia bird, flower, and tree


Title:
WEST VIRGINIA - West Virginia flag and seal


Title:
WESTERN CAPE - Western Cape, South Africa


Title:
WESTERN FRONTIER LIFE IN AMERICA - Jesse James


Title:
WESTERN WALL - Western Wall in Jerusalem


Title:
WESTMINSTER ABBEY - London: Westminster Abbey


Title:
WESTWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA - Advancing settlers fought the Indians


Title:
WESTWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA - Covered wagons


Title:
WESTWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA - Westward movement in America by 1790


Title:
WESTWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA - Westward movement in America by 1840


Title:
WESTWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA - Westward movement in America by 1890


Title:
Westward movement in America - Westward movement in America timeline


Title:
Wet Cleaners: the Latest Wave in a Green


Title:
WHALE - Scientists examine a beached whale


Title:
What Is the Fundamental Nature of Space?


Title:
WHEAT - Cross section of kernel of wheat


Title:
WHEAT - Wheat-producing areas of the world


Title:
When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time (Sonnet 12)


Title:
When I Have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced (Sonnet 64)


Title:
When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time (Sonnet 106)


Title:
When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth (Sonnet 138)


Title:
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30)


Title:
When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)


Title:
WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL - Etching by James Whistler


Title:
WHITE HOUSE - North portico of the White House


Title:
WILDER, LAURA INGALLS - Laura Ingalls Wilder


Title:
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION - Elephant bathes in a wildlife sanctuary


Title:
William Howard Taft National Historic Site


Title:
WILLIAMS, BILLY DEE - Billy Dee Williams


Title:
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE - Tennessee Williams


Title:
WILLIAMSBURG - Colonial houses in Williamsburg


Title:
WILSON, EDITH BOLLING - Edith Bolling Wilson


Title:
WILSON, ELLEN AXSON - Ellen Axson Wilson


Title:
WILSON, WOODROW - "Big Four" Allied leaders


Title:
Wilson, Woodrow - Woodrow Wilson timeline


Title:
WIREHAIRED POINTING GRIFFON - Wirehaired pointing griffon


Title:
WISCONSIN - Average January temperatures in Wisconsin


Title:
WISCONSIN - Average July temperatures in Wisconsin


Title:
WISCONSIN - Average yearly precipitation in Wisconsin


Title:
WISCONSIN - Dairy cattle on a Wisconsin farm


Title:
WISCONSIN - Wisconsin bird, flower, and tree


Title:
WOMAN SUFFRAGE - Christobel Pankhurst's speech on woman's suffrage


Title:
WOMAN SUFFRAGE - Suffragists selling magazines


Title:
WOMAN SUFFRAGE - Woman suffrage opposition


Title:
Woman suffrage - Woman suffrage timeline


Title:
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)


Title:
Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC)


Title:
WOODHULL, VICTORIA CLAFLIN - Victoria C. Woodhull


Title:
WORLD TRADE CENTER - People flee collapsing World Trade Center towers


Title:
WORLD TRADE CENTER - World Trade Center attack


Title:
WORLD WAR I - Cheering the end of World War I


Title:
WORLD WAR I - World War I: After the War


Title:
WORLD WAR I - World War I: Eastern Front


Title:
WORLD WAR I - World War I: Italian Front


Title:
WORLD WAR I - World War I: Western Front 1914-1917


Title:
WORLD WAR I - World War I: Western Front 1918


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini


Title:
WORLD WAR II - American soldiers in the Philippines


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Atomic blast in Hiroshima


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Eyewitness account of the bombing of Nagasaki


Title:
WORLD WAR II - General Dwight D. Eisenhower


Title:
WORLD WAR II - German soldiers at Soviet front


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Hitting the beach on D-Day


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Members of the Nazi Party


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Parisians welcome Allied troops


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Supplies poured ashore on Iwo Jima


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Survivors of Nazi death camps


Title:
WORLD WAR II - U.S. soldiers on beach at Tarawa


Title:
WORLD WAR II - Wartime confinement of Japanese Americans


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II in Europe: 1939-1941


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II in Europe: 1943-1945


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II in the Pacific: 1941-1942


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II in the Pacific: 1943-1945


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II: Normandy invasion area


Title:
WORLD WAR II - World War II: Normandy invasion detail


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Ancient Greek dish


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Assyrian King Ashurbanipal and his queen


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Basilica of St. Mark


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Bronze ceremonial vessel


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Civilization of ancient Egypt


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Constantine the Great


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Early center of the Renaissance


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Famous Roman aqueduct


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Hindu stone temple


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Muslim pharmacist


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Rejection of Communism in the Soviet Union


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Smoking factory chimneys


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Stone seal from Indus Valley civilization


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Study of the body


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - Wealth of nations


Title:
World, History of the - World history timeline


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - World History: 300-1500


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - World History: Colonial empires


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - World History: Early civilizations


Title:
WORLD, HISTORY OF THE - World History: Powerful empires


Title:
WRIGHT BROTHERS - First successful airplane flight


Title:
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD - Frank Lloyd Wright


Title:
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD - Wright, Frank Lloyd: Fallingwater


Title:
WYOMING - Average January temperatures in Wyoming


Title:
WYOMING - Average July temperatures in Wyoming


Title:
WYOMING - Average yearly precipitation in Wyoming


Title:
WYOMING - Wyoming bird, flower, and tree


Title:
X - Special ways of expressing the letter X


Title:
Y - Special ways of expressing the letter Y


Title:
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Minerva Terrace


Title:
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Yellowstone Lake


Title:
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Yellowstone National Park


Title:
YELTSIN, BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH - Boris Yeltsin


Title:
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls


Title:
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)


Title:
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)


Title:
YOUNG, ANDREW JACKSON, JR. - Andrew Young, Jr.


Title:
YUGOSLAVIA - Rugged mountains in Yugoslavia


Title:
YUGOSLAVIA - Yugoslav parliament building burns


Title:
YUGOSLAVIA - Yugoslavia from the mid-1940's to 1991


Title:
YUKON TERRITORY - Yukon Territory symbols


Title:
Z - Special ways of expressing the letter Z


Title:
ZAHARIAS, BABE DIDRIKSON - Zaharias, Babe Didrikson


Title:
ZIMBABWE - Squatters on white-owned land in Zimbabwe


Title:
ZWORYKIN, VLADIMIR KOSMA - Vladimir Zworykin


# Timelines

Title:
Major immigration movements to the U.S. timeline


Title:
Academy Awards for best picture timeline


Title:
Presidents of the United States timeline


Title:
Chief justices of the United States timeline


Title:
Vice presidents of the United States timeline


