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Movies and Film: The Eighties and Nineties

The Eighties and NinetiesMovies and FilmFrench Film HistoryIt's Art, Stupid!A Century of Cinematic SplendorBefore the WarSurfing the "New Wave"The Eighties and NinetiesTen Fabulous French Films We…

1999 National Medal of Science Recipients

David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and professor of biology and president, California Institute of Technology, for far-reaching, fundamental discoveries that dramatically altered the field of…

Vandals

(Encyclopedia) Vandals, ancient Germanic tribe. They originated in N Jutland and, along with other Germanic peoples, settled in the valley of the Oder about the 5th cent. b.c. They appeared in…

Entertainment News from January 2000

1Schindler's List tops the Broadcast Film Critics Association list of the top films of the 1990s. Saving Private Ryan places second, with L.A. Confidential in third. Rounding out the top five…

Easy, Eye-Poppin Fourth of July Decorations

By Courtney Key Ever since I was a little girl, my family has driven from upstate New York all the way to Cape Cod to enjoy the Fourth of July. To this day, everyone stays at my Nana's home that's…

Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses

// Cite Astronomers, astrophysicists, chemists, and physicists Jump to a category: AstronomersAstrophysicistsChemistsPhysicists Astronomers Adams, John Couch Al-…

The All-Star Game

The All-Star Game Baseball’s first All-Star Game was held on July 6, 1933, before 47,595 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. From that year on, the All- Star Game has matched the best players in the…

Brewer's: Basilics

or Basilica. A digest of laws begun by the Byzantine emperor Basilius in 867, and completed by his son Leo, the philosopher, in 880. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…