actorBorn: 8/30/1908Birthplace: Kankakee, Illinois Originally a traveling-band saxophonist, MacMurray began work in the silent films of the late 1920s. His long list of film credits, ranging from…
dancer, actressBorn: 7/1/1931Birthplace: Boulogne-Billancourt, France Caron had been dancing with the Ballet des Champs-Elysees since she was sixteen when she was cast opposite Gene Kelly in An…
Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. The problem. In the course of a year, individuals in the United States suffer one billion colds,…
PHYLUM: ECHINODERMATAFIND OUT MOREEchinoderms have a spiny body that usually divides into five equal parts. They walk on hundreds of tube feet that are full of water. If they lose part of…
(Encyclopedia) onion, plant of the family Liliaceae (lily family), of the same genus (Allium) as the chive (A. schoenoprasum), garlic (A. sativum), leek (A. porrum), and shallot (A. ascalonium).…
WorldSeveral Marines Die in Attack (Dec. 2): Ten marines are killed and about a dozen wounded by a bomb attack in Falluja.Military Admits to Paying for News Coverage (Dec. 2): Pentagon acknowledges…
(Encyclopedia) state flowers. Each state of the United States has designated, usually by legislative action, one flower as its floral emblem; the rose has been designated by Congress as the national…
Earth is not perfectly round; it bulges at the equator and is flatter at the poles. From space the planet looks blue with white swirls, created by water and clouds.Size: Four planets in our solar…
