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What causes a rainbow?

What causes a rainbow? Although light looks colorless, it’s made up of many colors-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These colors are known as the spectrum. When light shines…

Is the Red Sea red?

The Question: Is the Red Sea red? If so, why? The Answer: Of course it's not actually red, but sometimes it appears that way. Located between…

Women Artists

  Georgia O'Keeffe Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…

barium

(Encyclopedia) bariumbariumbârˈēəm [key] [Gr.,=heavy], metallic chemical element; symbol Ba; at. no. 56; at. wt. 137.327; m.p. 725℃; b.p. 1,640℃; sp. gr. 3.5 at 20℃; valence +2. Barium is a soft,…

slang

(Encyclopedia) slang, vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage. It is notable for its liveliness, humor, emphasis, brevity, novelty, and exaggeration. Most slang is faddish and…

New $20 Bill

The U.S. Treasury adopted a new design for the $20 dollar bill in fall 2003. The new bill incorporates security features introduced in the 1990s, including a watermark and a security thread—both…

John Ford

(Sean Aloysius O'Feeney)directorBorn: 2/1/1895Birthplace: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Academy Award-winning director known for his visually striking, well-acted movies, notably Westerns, that capture…

Anthony Edwards

actorBorn: 7/19/1962Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California Actor whose role as the earnest, talented, but troubled Dr. Mark Greene provided the moral center of ER (1994–2002), the most popular and…

Mel Ferrer

(Melchoir Gaston Ferrer)actorBorn: 8/25/1917Birthplace: Elberon, New Jersey Beginning his career in radio and later moving to stage and screen, he was married to Audrey Hepburn from 1954 to 1968…