actorBorn: 2/22/1907Birthplace: Chicago Emmy Award-winning television and film actor known for his gentle, patriarchal television roles on the shows Father Knows Best (1954–60) and Marcus Welby, M…
writer, photojournalistBorn: 2/22/1901Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary An expert in U.S. presidential and pictorial history, Lorant worked as a filmmaker in Europe (1920s) before becoming a journalist…
Disney animatorDied: April 14, 2008Best Known as: Disney animator Deathplace: Sequim, Washington Ollie Johnston was one of the nine core animator's for Walt…
Oscar Hosts Read a bio on Seth MacFarlane, the host of the 85th Academy Awards, as well as past Oscar hosts. Do you remember who hosted in 1989? No one. That was the year the Oscars had no…
American directorDied: March 31, 2008Best Known as: American director, screenwriter, and actor who was blacklisted in the United States Deathplace: Athens,…
Separates the clauses of a compound sentence connected by a coordinating conjunction: A difference exists between the musical works of Handel and Haydn, and it is a difference worth noting. …
Growth ringsComplete babyStages of growthSome of the most exciting fossil finds over the last fifty years have been those that have something to do with young dinosaurs – their nests, eggs, or…
by Borgna Brunner When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. —Gerda Lerner,…
Visit an American treasure by Elissa Haney The National Park Service maintains hundreds of outdoor parks... . . . as well as historic areas in places as far-flung as Hawaii–where tourists can…
