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Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:36 am

Richard entered Major League Baseball with the Astros in 1971 as a September call-up. On September 6, Richard made his major league debut at just 21 years of age, in the second game of a doubleheader ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:34 am

Meantime, in the Soviet Union during the 1950s, head of KGB Aleksandr Shelepin proposed and carried out a destruction of many documents related to the Katyn massacre, to minimize the chances that the ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:33 am

In Poland, the pro-Soviet authorities covered up the matter in concord with Soviet propaganda, deliberately censoring any sources that might provide information about the crime. Katyn was a forbidden ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:33 am

In 1951 and 1952, in the background of the Korean War, a U.S. Congressional investigation chaired by Rep. Ray J. Madden and known as the Madden Committee investigated the Katyn massacre. It concluded ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:21 am

In January 1944, the Soviet Union sent a more prestigiousSpecial Commission for Determination and Investigation of the Shooting of Polish Prisoners of War by German-Fascist Invaders in Katyn Forest (R ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:21 am

Having retaken the Katyn area almost immediately after the Red Army had recaptured Smolensk, around September-October 1943, NKVD forces began a cover-up.[2][58] A cemetery the Germans had permitted th ...

Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:20 am

In April 1943, when the Polish government-in-exile insisted on bringing the matter to the negotiation table with the Soviets and on an investigation by the International Red Cross,[52][53] Stalin accu ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:24 am

In early May 1913, the cadets of Crew 1913 were sent to the training ships Hansa, Hertha, Victoria Louise and Vineta. Lindemann was assigned to Hertha with 71 of his comrades. At that time, Hertha was ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:23 am

On 26 March 1913, Lindemann traveled with his parents to Flensburg for his medical examination at the Naval Academy at Mürwik. The strong financial background of his parents made him a suitable applic ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:22 am

Ernst Lindemann met Charlotte Weil (née Fritsche; 1899–1979), a Berlin singer, in the spring of 1920.[10] The couple married on 1 February 1921, and they had a daughter, Helga Maria, born on 26 Februa ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:07 am

He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernes Kreuzes), an honour that recognised extreme bravery on the battlefield or outstanding military leadership. Th ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:07 am

In May 1941, Lindemann commanded Bismarck during Operation Rheinübung. Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, under the command of Admiral Günther Lütjens, were to break out of their base in Germ ...

Fri May 27, 2011 4:06 am

Otto Ernst Lindemann (28 March 1894 – 27 May 1941) was a German naval captain and the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II.

Lindemann joined ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:28 am

Legend has it that Nico Ditch was completed in a single night by the inhabitants of Manchester, as a protection against Viking invaders in 869–870; Manchester may have been sacked by the Danes in 870. ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:27 am

Nico Ditch was constructed some time between the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century and the Norman Conquest in 1066. Its original purpose is unclear, but it may have been used as a ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:27 am

Nico Ditch stretches six miles (9.7 km) from Ashton Moss (grid reference SJ909980) in Ashton-under-Lyne to Hough Moss (grid reference SJ82819491), just east of Stretford.[1] It passes through Denton, ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:20 am

President and Endymion continued to England, arriving at Spithead on 28 March. President was commissioned into the Royal Navy under the name HMS President. Her initial rating was set at 50 guns, altho ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:20 am

Now in possession of the Royal Navy, President and her crew were ordered to proceed to Bermuda with Endymion. During the journey, they encountered a dangerous gale. The storm destroyed President's mas ...

Mon May 16, 2011 8:19 am

Making several attempts to close on Endymion, Decatur discovered that President's damage limited her maneuverability, allowing Endymion to anticipate and draw away from positions favorable for boardin ...

Mon May 16, 2011 7:38 am

Making several attempts to close on Endymion, Decatur discovered that President's damage limited her maneuverability, allowing Endymion to anticipate and draw away from positions favorable for boardin ...

Mon May 16, 2011 7:37 am

Unaware of the exact location of the blockading squadron, Decatur set a course to avoid them and seek a safe port, but approximately two hours later the squadron's sails were spotted on the horizon. P ...

Mon May 16, 2011 7:36 am

The Treaty of Ghent, ending hostilities between the United States and Britain, was signed on 24 December 1814. However, the United States did not ratify the treaty until 18 February 1815.The war carri ...

Fri May 13, 2011 8:27 am

Despite these Iraqi threats, the Coalition launched a 38-day aerial campaign on 17 January 1991.[3] Flying an estimated 2,000 sorties a day,[9] Coalition aircraft rapidly crippled the Iraqi air defens ...

Fri May 13, 2011 8:27 am

Initially, Saddam Hussein attempted to deter Coalition military action by threatening Kuwait's and Iraq's petroleum production and export. In December 1990, Iraq experimented with the use of explosive ...

Fri May 13, 2011 8:26 am

On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied the neighboring state of Kuwait.[3] The invasion, which followed the inconclusive Iran–Iraq War and three decades of political conflict with Kuwa ...

Thu May 12, 2011 1:04 pm

The football program began in the 1880s, yet at the time the school faced mainly collegiate opponents, since few other schools in the area fielded teams.[46] By the early 20th century this trend shift ...

Thu May 12, 2011 1:03 pm

During the late 1880s, interscholastic sports became a feature of school life and a number of teams were begun in various sports. The formal organization of an athletic program did not occur until 189 ...

Thu May 12, 2011 1:03 pm

The choir has traveled to Europe on several occasions; its first trip was in 1999, after receiving an invitation to perform at the Choralfest in Arezzo, Italy.[43] In 2003, the choir returned to Italy ...

Thu May 12, 2011 12:49 pm

The marching band at City College was created in the late 1940s. At the time, the instrumental music program consisted of the orchestra, concert band and marching band. The director who brought the ba ...

Thu May 12, 2011 12:48 pm

The origins of the speech and debate program at City College lie in the Bancroft Literary Association, which was established in 1876.[32] In 1878, a second competing society, the Carrollton Literary S ...

Thu May 12, 2011 12:47 pm

City College offers more than 20 student clubs and organizations. These activities include chapters of national organizations such as National Honor Society (established at City in 1927) and Quill and ...

Thu May 12, 2011 10:55 am

On October 17, Hurricane Rick was classified a Category 5 hurricane, becoming the first in the eastern Pacific basin since Hurricane Kenna in 2002 and the first east of the International Date Line sin ...

Thu May 12, 2011 10:55 am

n Texas, the remnants of Rick produced torrential rainfall, peaking at 9.34 in (237 mm) within a concentrated area. Meteorologists did not anticipate the severity of the precipitation in this area.[51 ...

Thu May 12, 2011 10:54 am

Although no

cyclone, remnant moisture from Rick enhanced a strong cold front over the Great Plains of the United States. Severe thunderstorms occurred over parts of the southern states, with a ...

Thu May 12, 2011 8:35 am

Pre-Davidian Scotland had no known chartered burghs, though most, if not all, of the burghs granted charters by the crown already existed long before the reign of David I but he gave them legal status ...

Thu May 12, 2011 8:35 am

The average amount of land used by a husbandman in Scotland might have been around 26 acres.[36] There is a lot of evidence that the native Scots favoured pastoralism, in that Gaelic lords were happie ...

Thu May 12, 2011 8:30 am

Main article: Economy of Scotland in the High Middle Ages

The Scottish economy of this period was dominated by agriculture and by short-distance, local trade. There was an increasing amount of fore ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:57 am

So many important dancers appeared in Graham's company that any listing omits deserving performers. One list is:[7]

"Graham's original girls were superb - Bessie Schonberg, Evelyn Sabin, Marth ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:57 am

According to Agnes de Mille: "I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy. ... I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith that I could ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:56 am

Martha Graham Dance Company
See also: Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

The Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest dance company in America[4] and continues to perform, including at th ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:39 am

In 1936, Graham made her defining work, "Chronicle", which signaled the beginning of a new era in contemporary dance. The dance brought serious issues to the stage for the general public in ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:38 am

In 1925, Martha was employed at the George Eastman School of Design where Rouben Mamoulian was head of the School of Drama. Among other performances, together they produced a short two color film call ...

Wed May 11, 2011 11:38 am

Martha Graham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1894. Her father George Graham was what in the Victorian era was known as an "alienist", an early form of psychiatry. The Grahams were s ...

Wed May 11, 2011 7:06 am

The Teaching Fellows Program offers a graduate-level Great Books course designed for kindergarten through 12th grade school teachers. Shimer does not award graduate degrees, but teachers earn professi ...

Wed May 11, 2011 7:06 am

The Weekend College Program, founded in 1981, allows working adults to participate in an intensive schedule of classes which meet every third weekend, to allow them to graduate in four years.[60][61] ...

Wed May 11, 2011 7:05 am

Students are required to complete a Semester Project during the final week of each term (known as Writing Week), on a topic they choose in conjunction with their advisor. The project does not receive ...

Sat May 07, 2011 2:48 pm

In the wake of multiple "copycat" hijackings in 1972 (see above), the FAA required that all Boeing 727 aircraft be fitted with a device, later dubbed the "Cooper vane", which preve ...

Sat May 07, 2011 2:48 pm

The Cooper hijacking marked the beginning of the end of unfettered, uninspected airline travel. President Richard Nixon initiated the Sky Marshal program, which placed armed undercover Federal agents ...

Sat May 07, 2011 2:47 pm

Coffelt was a confidence man, ex-convict, and purported government informant who claimed to have been the chauffeur and confidante of Abraham Lincoln's last undisputed descendant, great-grandson Rober ...

Fri May 06, 2011 3:32 pm

By April 7 the combined crater was 1,700 feet (520 m) long, 1,200 feet (365 m) wide and 500 feet (150 m) deep.[16] A USGS team determined in the last week of April that a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) diameter se ...

Fri May 06, 2011 3:32 pm

9 Summary table
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 External links

Buildup to the eruption

Mount. St. Helens remained dormant from its last period of activity in the 1840s ...

Fri May 06, 2011 3:31 pm

Shocks of magnitude 3.2 or greater occurred at a slightly increasing rate during April and May with five earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above per day in early April, and 8 per day the week before May 1 ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:53 am

The historic creek likely supported diverse fish species, including salmon. After people filled the wetlands and diverted the lower stretch of the creek into a pipe, fish could no longer migrate to an ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:52 am

Above the floodplain, much of the habitat in the watershed consists of mixed conifer forest. Trees and shrubs, including stands of red alder and cottonwood trees, cover about 88 percent of the middle ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:52 am

Above the floodplain, much of the habitat in the watershed consists of mixed conifer forest. Trees and shrubs, including stands of red alder and cottonwood trees, cover about 88 percent of the middle ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:51 am

The watershed lies partly in the Coast Range ecoregion and partly in the Willamette Valley ecoregion designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).[33] The historic lower Balch Creek wa ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:34 am

For about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) the creek parallels Wildwood Trail, the main hiking trail in Forest Park, until reaching a former public restroom known as the Stone House.[13] From here Balch Creek run ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:34 am

From its source, the creek runs east on private property near Forest Park, a large municipal park in Portland, before turning briefly south about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the mouth. Soon thereafter, the ...

Fri May 06, 2011 8:33 am

Balch Creek begins in the Forest Park neighborhood in unincorporated Multnomah County near the intersection of Northwest Skyline Boulevard and Northwest Thompson Road at the crest of the West Hills. I ...