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2006 BAFTA Video Game Awards

by Mark Hughes The 2007 British Academy Video Game Awards were presented on October 23, 2007, at Battersea Evolution in London. 2006 Award Winners TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Tom Clancy’s Ghost…

The Three R's of the Environment

Every year, Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar and can covers. More than 30% of our waste is packaging…

DK History: Slave Trade

HOW WAS THE SLAVE TRADE ORGANIZED? HOW WERE SLAVES TREATED IN THE NEW WORLD? BIOGRAPHY: TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE 1746–1803 PLANTATIONSFIND OUT MOREPeople have been bought and sold as slaves around the…

Project Runway: Season One

Notable challenges included designing a dress from items in a supermarket and imagining fashion from the year 2050 by Mark Hughes Heidi Klum Project Runway Quizzes Project…

The Wide World of Sports

Baseball, football, and basketball may be our favorite games, but in other countries, different sports are just as popular. Here are a few of them. Cricket…

Winter Olympics 2014: All About Sochi

The port city and subtropical resort was established in 1902 Sochi Seaport Related Links 2014 Winter OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsBirth of the Modern OlympicsEncyclopedia:…

NFL Football Preview 1999: AFC Central

AFC Central Jacksonville Jaguars - The Jags have the talent and the coaching to go all the way. Quarterback Mark Brunell is exciting, provided he stays healthy, and the offense has…

Ernst, Max

(Encyclopedia) Ernst, MaxErnst, Maxmäks ĕrnst [key] 1891–1976, German painter. After World War I, Ernst joined the Dada movement in Paris and then became a founder of surrealism. Apart from the…

Mosby, John Singleton

(Encyclopedia) Mosby, John SingletonMosby, John Singletonmôzˈbē [key], 1833–1916, Confederate partisan leader in the American Civil War, b. Edgemont, Va. He was practicing law in Bristol, Va., when…

Bentley, Eric

(Encyclopedia) Bentley, Eric (Eric Russell Bentley), 1916–2020, American critic, editor, and translator, b. Bolton, England, grad. Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. He became a U.S. citizen in 1948. A…