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1996 Olympics: Cycling

Men Mountain Bike Cross Country (47.7 km): 1. Bart Jan Brentjens, NET (2:17:38); 2. Thomas Frischknecht, SWI (2:20:14); 3. Miguel Martinez, FRA (2:20:36). Road Individual Road Race (225 km): 1.…

2010 Olympics: Luge

One of the fastest Olympic sports by Gerry Brown and Christine Frantz Related Links 2010 Winter Olympics Luge Through the YearsEncyclopedia: LugeOlympic Preview: Skeleton Did…

Asian-American Athletes

Grace ParkBiographies ofNotable Asian Pacific AmericansA-Z ListGovernment Officials and PoliticiansBusiness and Media LeadersAthletes & Sports PersonalitiesScientistsEntertainers:…

Notable Filmmakers and Directors

Spike Lee See also Actors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater Personalities Women Stage and Screen…

Recent Science Discoveries, 2000

Our Ancestors Were Knuckle-WalkersAnd other recent science discoveries by Otto Johnson More Discoveries IntroductionIce Age Haute CoutureAntisocial Brain Tissue DeficitNew…

Zsigmond, Vilmos

(Encyclopedia) Zsigmond, Vilmos, 1930–2016, Hungarian-American cinematographer. As a film student in Budapest, he and fellow student (and later cinematographer) Laszlo Kovacs secretly filmed the…

Public Transportation: Subways

Underground RailroadsA short history of subterranean transport in America by Dan Shafto   The interior of a women's car on the early New York subway. Modern systems not only integrate the sexes…

1998 MTV Video Awards

MTV Video Awards: the Nomineesvideo of the year | female video | male video | group video | next VIDEO OF THE YEARBrandy & Monica"The Boy Is Mine"Madonna"Ray of Light"Puff Daddy & the…