After the Civil War, contemporaries of Harriet Tubman's maintained that she has all of the qualities of a great leader：coolness in the face of danger, an excellent sense of strategy, and an ability to plan in minute detail.

Although Napoleon's army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to a hotel.

Two new studies indicate that many people become obese more due to the fact that their bodies burn calories too slowly than overeating.

Seismologists studying the earthquake that struck northern California in October 1989 are still investigating some of its mysteries：the unexpected power of the seismic waves, the upward thrust that threw one man straight into the air, and the strange electromagnetic signals detected hours before the temblor.

The commission proposed that funding for the park's development, which could be open to the public early next year, is obtained through a local bond issue.

Last year land values in most parts of the pinelands rose almost so fast, and in some parts even faster than what they did outside the pinelands.

According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about equivalent to the enrollment of the nation's four-year colleges and universities.

In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however some governments merely substitute living allowances for their employees' paychecks, assigned by them to the United Nations.

Down-zoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.