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A Hunting Lesson

Distributor:National Film Board of Canada Young Antoine’s eccentric new neighbor is rumored to be a big game hunter. As their friendship grows, Antoine convinces the man to teach him to hunt. Based…

Roberto the Insect Architect

Distributor: Weston Woods What’s a bug to do? The big city calls to the budding architect, Roberto the termite. His blueprint for…

Play 1010 Classic for Free!

Flex your spatial reasoning with 1010 Classic! 1010 Classics Instructions How to play: To play, click and drag the blocks onto the grid. When you fill a row or column, the blocks will break and…

Dos Passos, John Roderigo

(Encyclopedia) Dos Passos, John Roderigo, 1896–1970, American novelist, b. Chicago, grad. Harvard, 1916. He subsequently studied in Spain and served as a World War I ambulance driver in France and…

casino

(Encyclopedia) casino or cassinocasinoboth: kəsēˈnō [key]. 1 Card game played with a full deck by two to four players. Its origins are obscure though it probably traces back to the Italian game of…

speculation

(Encyclopedia) speculation, practice of engaging in business in order to make quick profits from fluctuations in prices, as opposed to the practice of investing in a productive enterprise in order to…

Joanne Woodward

actressBorn: 2/27/1930Birthplace: Thomasville, Georgia Academy Award-winning actress whose films include The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and The Glass Menagerie (1987), which was directed by her…

Sir Fred Hoyle

astrophysicistBorn: 6/24/1915Birthplace: Bingley, Yorkshire, England prominent astrophysicist who wrote extensively about cosmological theory, the belief that the universe is in a steady state of…

Ariana Richards

actressBorn: 9/11/1979Birthplace: Healdsburg, California Having begun her career on television shows like The Golden Girls (1985) and My Sister Sam (1986), Richards lept onto the big screen as she…

Al Franken

comedian, writerBorn: 5/21/1951Birthplace: New York City Comedian and long-time cast member of Saturday Night Live (from 1979–80 and again from 1988–95) and star of the short-lived series LateLine…