(Encyclopedia) Grant, Cary, 1904–86, British movie actor, b. Bristol as Archibald Alexander Leach. He began on stage in 1923 and made his first film in 1932. An almost immediate hit, Grant was a…
(Encyclopedia) Strand, Mark, 1934–2014, American poet, b. Prince Edward Island, Canada, grad. Antioch College (B.A., 1957), Yale (B.F.A., 1959), Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.A., 1962). Meditative and…
Some dinosaurs were social creatures. Recently discovered evidence indicates that they travelled together and that some may even have migrated (because dinosaur fossils have been found above the…
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POUCH BABYCICHLID FISHWOODLICE EXOSKELETONWILDEBEESTBLUE TIT NESTLINGSLOGGERHEAD TURTLE HATCHLINGSELEPHANTSFIND OUT MOREAs animals grow they can change in both their form and their behaviour.…
From planet to pet names, hurricane to Spanish place names Personal Names Most Popular First Names In 1900, John and Mary topped the list; a hundred years later it was Jacob…
(Encyclopedia) Crawford, Joan, 1908–77, American movie star, b. San Antonio, Tex., as Lucille Le Sueur. After working as a Broadway chorus dancer, Crawford began making films in 1926, eventually…
(Encyclopedia) cyanosiscyanosissīˌənōˈsĭs [key], bluish coloration of the skin, mucous membranes, and nailbeds, resulting from a lack of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood. It is a symptom of many…
(Encyclopedia) Steptoe, Patrick Christopher, 1913–88, British surgeon, M.D. St. George Hospital Medical School, Univ. of London, 1939. Steptoe worked at Oldham General Hospital from 1951 to 1980,…
(Encyclopedia) Seldes, Marian Hall, 1928–2014, American actress, b. New York City. She studied under Sanford Meisner before making her Broadway debut in Medea (1947). Tall and angular, with a regal…
