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Back to School Movies

Lights! Camera! Learning!The best school movies ever made by Beth Rowen Sir Laurence Olivier's classic Hamlet With school bells set to ring in only a matter of days, it's time for students…

Stanley Cup 1998 | Coaching

Spotlight on the Stanley Cup: Coaching Detroit Scotty Bowman could have never decided to coach in Detroit five years ago and he would right now be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. But he did, and…

Business, Philanthropy, and Labor

John Davison Rockefeller Biographies by CategoryArts and Entertainment Business, Philanthropy, and Labor Business, Philanthropy, and Labor Politics and Government Science and…

African-American Biographies by Category

Notable African Americans   A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious Leaders Scientists & Inventors Abolitionists Scholars & Educators Entertainers Literary…

DK Science: Internet

PACKET SWITCHINGINTERNET ACCESSCONNECTING TO THE INTERNETEMAILWORLD WIDE WEBFIND OUT MOREThe Internet is a computer network covering the whole world. We can use it to search through three billion…

Spotlight: The Search for Life in the Solar System

So How's the Europan Seafood? Even if life does exist on Europa, it is still too early to take up extraterrestrial ice fishing. Most likely, only very primitive forms of life would exist (microbes…

Hoaxes - Corporate

Corporate Shenanigans by Shmuel Ross Yo Quiero LibertyOn April 1, 1996, readers of newspapers including the New York Times were met with a full-page advertisement announcing that Taco Bell…

Measuring Years

The word for the longest measurement of time is kalpa, Hindi for 432 billion years. A year is the time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun once. A calendar year is 365 days.…

Linking to Fact Monster

You are welcome and encouraged to link from your web site to Fact Monster. Please remember that the majority of the information on Factmonster.com is protected by copyright, and you many not copy the…

Kaufman, George S.

(Encyclopedia) Kaufman, George S.Kaufman, George S.kôfˈmən [key], 1889–1961, American dramatist and journalist, b. Pittsburgh as George Kaufman. As a drama critic for various New York newspapers he…