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From Hattie to The Help

A History of African-Americans at the Oscars by Jennie Wood   Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar.   RELATED LINKS Minority Oscar Winners in Major…

Chemistry: Bohr: What Is It Good For?

Bohr: What Is It Good For?ChemistryThe Modern AtomBohr: What Is It Good For?Spectroscopy: Reading Between the LinesA Quantum Leap into Quantum Mechanics While many theorists were busy playing with…

Movies and Film: Hitler's Hired Help

Hitler's Hired HelpMovies and FilmGermany's Film HistoryGermany's Greatest -IsmHitler's Hired HelpA Few Young MenRoads Not Taken: Film in East GermanyUnification and Beyond Leni Riefenstahl…

gospel music

(Encyclopedia) gospel music, American religious musical form that owes much of its origin to the Christian conversion of West Africans enslaved in the American South. Gospel music partly evolved from…

brown dwarf

(Encyclopedia) brown dwarf, in astronomy, celestial body that is larger than a planet but does not have sufficient mass to convert hydrogen into helium via nuclear fusion as stars do. Also called “…

Projected NBA Lottery Picks

Projected Draft Lottery Picks (#1–13) 1. Los Angeles ClippersMike Bibby, PG, 6'2 (Arizona) The Clippers always find a way to mess things up. While Maurice Taylor ('97 pick) is the only…

Baseball Contraction Timeline

Contraction Timeline The Events of 2001-2002 by John Gettings 2001 Oct. 24 A Canadian newspaper, The Windsor Star(Ontario) publishes a report that Major League Baseball Commissioner…

Philadelphia, Pa.

Mayor: Michael Nutter (to Jan. 2016) 2010 census population (rank): 1,526,006 (5); Male: 719,813 (47.2%); Female: 806,1933 (52.8%); White: 626,221 (41.0%); Black: 661,839 (43.4%); American…

DK Science: Atmosphere

AURORASLAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHEREOZONE LAYERFIND OUT MOREPRESSURE SYSTEMSThe Earth would be as lifeless as the Moon without the atmosphere – a blanket of gases surrounding the planet and…