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21Sam Ragan — (December 31, 1915 1996) was a favorite son of North Carolina whose career was spent as a journalist, author, poet and champion of the arts. He was born in Berea, North Carolina and was the son of William Samuel Ragan and Emma Clare (Long) Ragan …
22Naval Battle of Awa — Part of Boshin War Encounter b …
23Broadway Rose — gained notoriety in the 1940s as a panhandler in the Broadway theatre district of New York City. Biography Background Anna Dym was born approximately in 1913 in Woodburn, New Jersey to Sam and Dora Dym, Yiddish speaking immigrants from the… …
24Seat Cushion Night — is the name of two famous St. Louis Cardinals baseball games at which fans were given seat cushions as a promotion. Both games were dramatic come from behind walk off victories for the Cardinals that caused the fans to throw the seat cushions… …
25literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
26performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
27United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
28Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
29arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
30mathematics — /math euh mat iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically. 2. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) mathematical procedures,… …
