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Today’s Featured Topic Page is: *Women’s suffrage.

On this day – May 16, 2005, Kuwait’s National Assembly voted to permit women’s suffrage.

In the US, the idea was first seriously proposed at Seneca Falls in a general declaration… Read More…

Today’s post provides you with background information on items that are in the news this week.

Surfing
Surfing is an ancient sport that dates back thousands of years and has a history that intersects with colonialism, World War… Read More…

Credo Reference and Libraries Thriving will be hosting two free online seminars this week (one of them taking place today at 10am EDT!) as part of the Spring 2012 Credo Reference Online Seminar Series: Tech Tools and their Place in… Read More…

Can you answer these questions about various sports venues?

1. Lord’s Cricket Ground in London was named after Thomas Lord: true or false?

2. In which American city is the arena of Madison Square Garden?

3. In which French city… Read More…

Today’s Featured Topic Page is: *Tomato. On May 10, 1893, the US Supreme Court ruled in Nex v. Hedden that a tomato was classified as a vegetable for the purposes of the Tariff Act of 1883, which taxed… Read More…