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2013 Notable Books for Children

These books were chosen by a committee of librarians, educators, and other professionals for the Association for Library Service to Children. Younger…

Holiday Movie Preview 2000

Holiday Film FavesHow the Grinch Stole Christmas, Bounce, and Quills by Beth Rowen Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole ChristmasOpens November 17Just about everyone over age 10 knows the…

kabbalah

(Encyclopedia) kabbalah or cabalacabalaboth: kăbˈələ [key] [Heb.,=reception], esoteric system of interpretation of the Scriptures based upon a tradition claimed to have been handed down orally from…

Talmud

(Encyclopedia) TalmudTalmudtălˈməd [key] [Aramaic from Heb.,=learning], in Judaism, vast compilation of the Oral Law with rabbinical elucidations, elaborations, and commentaries, in contradistinction…

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Remembered

The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 and 9, 1945 by Ben Snowden At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber flew north from Tinian Island in the Marianas…

Entertainment Bios — R

Francisco RabalDorothy RabinowitzRadioheadGilda RadnerBen RaeburnRage Against the MachineSam M. RaimiMa RaineyClaude RainsBonnie RaittHarold RamisJoey RamoneMichael RapaportBasil RathboneDan…

Spring Training 1998

For the first time in Major League Baseball history 30 franchises have migrated south to Florida and Arizona to participate in spring training. That's because two new teams, the Tampa Bay…