The first erasers, for wiping out lead pencil marks, were pieces of bread. The modern eraser made of rubber appeared in the eighteenth century. The first suggestion to use rubber--a vegetable gum from South America called caoutchouc--as an eraser was...

Common erasers. An eraser or rubber is an article of stationery that is used for removing pencil and sometimes pen writings. Erasers have a rubbery consistency, and they are often white, brown or pink although with modern materials they can be of any...

Diamanda Galás commemorates the victims of a long-forgotten Turkish ethnic cleansing Ages ago ,at college in her native California, singer, composer, and cultural provocatrice Diamanda Galás abandoned the study of science to pursue her true passion: experimental music. But biochemistry's loss is our...

00-00-0000 A photographic exhibit at the Brick Store Museum re-creates Kennebunk' s Main Street of centuries ago. Portland Press Herald (Maine) Thursday, November 14, 2002 Edition: York Section: Your Neighbors Page: 1E By GISELLE GOODMAN Staff Writer KENNEBUNK-- Of all the...

A security video showing Falcons quarterback Michael Vick surrendering a water bottle to a security screener at Miami International Airport was erased because it would not be needed for evidence.The Jan. 17 video was part of the investigation into the water bottle with a hidden...

The Calgary Flames erased a two-goal deficit by ignoring it. Jarome Iginla had three assists, including Wayne Primeau's go-ahead score on a short-handed breakaway early in the third period, in a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night."You take a look at...