Housing Watch Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. J. Anthony Lukas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Anthony_Lukas

   Linda Healey. Jay Anthony Lukas (April 25, 1933 – June 5, 1997) was an American journalist and author, best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. [1] Common Ground is a classic study of race relations, class conflict, and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the ...

3. Common Ground (Lukas book) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Ground_(Lukas_book)

   Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a nonfiction book by J. Anthony Lukas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985, that examines race relations in Boston, Massachusetts, through the prism of desegregation busing. [1] It received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [2] the National Book Award for ...

4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

   Cora Agnes Benneson (1851–1919) was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, and a Master of Arts in 1883, and was licensed to practice law in Illinois and Michigan. From 1883 to 1885, she traveled the world to learn about legal ...

5. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

   Overview. "Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common place", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton 's example. "Commonplace book" is at times ...

6. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Encyclopedia

   World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still ...

7. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia

   Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.

8. Beowulf - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf

   Beowulf ( / ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the ...

9. Wikipedia:Public domain image resources - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain...

   t. e. Public domain image resources is a copy of the master Wikipedia page at Meta, which lists a number of sources of public domain images on the Web. Public Domain images should be marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0.