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DK Arts & Entertainment: Writers

WHAT MAKES A GOOD WRITER? DO WRITERS GO OUT OF STYLE? IS WRITING FOR CHILDREN DIFFERENT? WHAT IS A NARRATOR? WHY DO SOME WRITERS BECOME FAMOUS? FIND OUT MOREWriters express themselves in words.…

Science Projects: The Sweetest Experiment

The Sweetest ExperimentScience ProjectsJust for the Fun of It!Making Invisible InkMaking Eggs That BounceDo Odor and Bacteria Go Hand-in-Hand?The Sweetest Experiment The town of Hershey,…

Harry Potter Casting Call

Looking for Harry Potter Wanted: young British Muggle with a lightning-bolt scar by Holly Hartman This article was posted on January 20, 2000.Production on the film version of Harry Potter and…

Harry Potter, Cast at Last

Harry Potter, Cast at Last A young actor gets ready to enroll in Hogwarts by Holly Hartman   Visit our Harry Potter Page for more news! This article was posted on January 20, 2000…

Harry Potter: New Books

Of Beasts and Bludgers Get ready for two new books from Hogwarts by Holly Hartman   * Visit our Harry Potter Page for more news! * This article was posted on January 20, 2000.  …

Dogon

(Encyclopedia) DogonDogondōgänˈ [key], African people who live on the bend of the Niger River in the Republic of Mali in West Africa. A patrilineal, sedentary agricultural people, they number over…

Ficino, Marsilio

(Encyclopedia) Ficino, MarsilioFicino, Marsiliomärsēˈlyō fēchēˈnō [key], 1433–99, Italian philosopher. Under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, Ficino became the most influential exponent of…

interlude

(Encyclopedia) interlude, development in the late 15th cent. of the English medieval morality play. Played between the acts of a long play, the interlude, treating intellectual rather than moral…

Harris, William Torrey

(Encyclopedia) Harris, William Torrey, 1835–1909, American educator and philosopher, b. Windham co., Conn., educated at Yale. He was superintendent (1868–80) of the St. Louis public school system and…