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The Velveteen Rabbit

Distributor:Karol Media Margery Williams’ touching classic about a child’s well-loved toy bunny that becomes real is presented in claymation on this Adelante Project DVD.

Hardcover

Here are the best-selling children's books of all time (through the end of 2000), with author and year of initial publication, compiled by Publishers Weekly. OP means the book is no longer in print…

The Dawn of an Electronic Era

The computer age began when ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was completed in 1945. The first multipurpose computer, ENIAC set speed records with an amazing 5,000 additions…

The Year in Movies

Human Error Bad deeds do not go unpunished, however, and part of the function of film is to scourge us for our worst inclinations even while indulging them. Hence the perennial success of…

Bob Marley

reggae singerBorn: 2/6/1945Birthplace: St. Ann, Jamaica Grammy Award-winning reggae singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music sparked an international interest in reggae music. In 1964, he…

Tropical Diseases: Introduction

IntroductionTropical DiseasesIntroductionLeishmaniasis: The Sand Fly's BugGiardiasis: A One-Celled WonderSchistosomiasis: Snail FeverAfrican Sleeping SicknessRiver BlindnessMany diseases are caused…

Carnivorous Plants

Venus's flytrap Most carnivorous plants eat flying, foraging, or crawling insects. Those that live…

chigger

(Encyclopedia) chigger, minute, six-legged, reddish larva of the harvest mite, one of various red bugs widely distributed throughout the world and common in the S United States. Attaching itself by…

Chlöe Sevigny

actressBorn: Nov. 18, 1975Birthplace: Darien, Conn. One of independent film's darlings, Sevigny has made a career out of appearing in risky films. In her big-screen debut, she played a teen who…