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Hurricane Season

The deadliest, strongest, and costliest Atlantic storms   Quizzes and Crosswords Extreme Weather Disasters Quiz Great Disasters Quiz   Hurricane Season 2016—Predictions The…

2004 Olympics: Boxing

Weight Class ChampionLt. Flyweight (106 lbs)Yan Bhartelemy Varela, CUB Atagun Yalcinkaya, TUR Shiming Zou, CHN / Sergey Kazakov, RUSFlyweight (112) Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano, CUB  Jerome Thomas,…

2005 Grammy Awards

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2006. Record: “Boulevard of Broken…

Notable Cuban Biographies, A-Z

Raul Castro, president of Cuba. Source: Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate via AP Biographies by Category: Athletes Film, Television, and Theater Personalities Leaders and…

DK Science: Acoustics

HOLLYWOOD BOWLCONCERT HALLECHOESABSORPTIONFIND OUT MOREThe science of how sound behaves, especially when it travels through our everyday world, is called acoustics. Sound waves normally travel…

Los Angeles, Calif.

Mayor: Eric Garcetti (to July 2017)2010 census population (rank): 3,792,621 (2); Male: 1,889,064 (49.8%); Female: 1,903,557 (50.2%); White: 1,888,158 (49.8%); Black: 365,118 (9.6%); American Indian…

Georgian literature

(Encyclopedia) Georgian literature. Early Georgian literature shows the influence of two distinctly different civilizations—medieval Eastern Orthodox Christianity and, later, Persia. The Passion of…

Black Visual and Performing Artists

  Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists   Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious…

Winter Olympics Biographies, A-Z

  A-D  | E-I  | J-L  | M-Z Anita DeFrantz Tenley Albright, American figure skater Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater Bonnie Blair, American speed skater Herb Brooks, American hockey…